National Railway Museum

National Railway Museum Wikimedia workshop

Date: 22 June 2011

Introduction

This event is an all day workshop, demonstrations and presentations hosted by the National Railway Museum in York.

It is anticipated that attending will be:

• NRM staff interested in working with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
• Representatives from other museums - to be sought through the Museum Computer Group mailing list
• Wikipedians already involved with the NRM or with GLAM outreach
• Wikipedians interested in working with GLAM and/or the NRM - to be sought through promotion on wikipedia (e.g. banner ad, related wikiprojects)

Attendees

The expectation is for the workshop day to involve 9 museum professionals from York and nearby and 9 experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians with relevant interest and experience. Total numbers will be limited to a maximum of 24.

Please add your name to the list below with your related interest and/or professional capacity if you are planning to attend and in addition email Simon who is the Wikimedia coordinator for the day.

Wikimedians

• Tagishsimon - Coordinating event
• Victuallers - WM-UK Chair, involved in NRM liaison - will attend, real life permitting
• Fæ - UK GLAM task force lead and WM-UK director
• Wittylama - WMF GLAM Fellow, will attend, possible opening presenter
• Geof Sheppard - have offered to help this project because of my work on railway history articles. Can probably attend but I need to know what time - after lunch would work better.
• PatHadley - Hoping to attend. Know nothing about trains and little more about Wikipedia, but really excited about how this might work!