Wikipedia:GLAM/NHMandSM/2nd Month Report

Science Museum and Natural History Museum Wikimedian Residence 1st month report
The second month of my residency has focused on research for an advisory report for the museums on the value of openly licensing its resources and setting up training. A full list of activities as follows:


 * Transferred 400 photos from the National Media Museum (part of the Science Museum Group to Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_National_Media_Museum_collection


 * Arranged training for around 70 people, to be carried out in the next 2 weeks


 * Talk to Science Museum staff about Wikimedia


 * Developing the first crowdsourced multilingual museum guide using Wikipedia, including running a photography event in conjunction with Imperial College Wikipedia Society


 * Research for reports to the museums titled: The value of open licensing content


 * Worked with the Science Museum to release 3 videos under an open license


 * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:No_pain._Science_Museum_Painless_Exhibition_Series.webm
 * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Painfully_unaware._Science_Museum_Painless_Exhibition_Series.webm
 * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Virtually_Painless._Science_Museum_Painless_Exhibition_Series.webm


 * Attended Lyme Regis Fossil Festival to talk to people about Wikimedia and open knowledge projects and created educational video with Lyme Regis Museum staff http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paddy_Howe,_Geologist_at_Lyme_Regis_Museum_gives_a_short_description_of_ammonites.webm