GLAM/Newsletter/June 2014/Contents/Netherlands report

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue VI, June 2014

Netherlands report

Music edit-a-thon; Library workshops; Videos, maps and Japanese art donations; Wiki Loves Earth

Events

June 13 & 24: Wikipedia workshops at libraries

Two workshop were organised: a monthly open workshop in Amersfoort and a workshop for 9 employees of the public library in Amsterdam (OBA). The workshop in Amersfoort attracted people that specifically came to the library for the workshop and the director of the archive (the archive is located in the same building).

June 14: Music Edit-a-thon

On Saturday June 14th an Edit-a-thon was organized at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. About 30 people showed up to write about Dutch music from the first half of the twentieth century. There were 15 first-time editors present. About twenty articles were written (see the course page for all the contributions of the day). Photos of the day.

June 20: Re-source fashion

Sebastiaan ter Burg participated in an expert panel at the Re-Source: Fashion in the Digital Age conference in Arnhem. Visitors could join the panel for two sessions to discuss the opportunities, risks of and methods for sharing content in the fashion industry.

June 21: Brainstorm year plan 2015

A brainstorm was organised to gather ideas for the year plan for 2015. This includes plans for the GLAM sector. 13 people participated in the brainstorm.

Content donations

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision: 500+ videos of birds

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision has just finished uploading over 500 video's of bird filmed in The Netherlands by a professional film producer. This is a donation made possible by the Foundation for Nature Footage (Stichting Natuurbeelden) and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The collection contains beautiful and unique footage of different bird species, in a variety of landscapes displaying different types of behavior. The entire collection can be found in the category Stichting Natuurbeelden on Open Images. Even though the meta-data is in Dutch, the Latin bird-names are contained in the meta-data as well, which should make it possible to still find these videos for use on international chapters.

Japanese art collection Rijksmuseum: 2,228 photos of objects

The Japanese art collection was uploaded to commons with the kind help of Fae. The GLAMwiki Toolset was used for this upload.

Atlas of Mutual Heritage on Commons: 2.500 old maps, prints and drawings

2500 images related to the overseas history of The Netherlands have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Hay Kranen. More information about this upload can be found on the project page and in Hay's email to the GLAM mailinglist.