Grants:IdeaLab/Grand Canyon Museum Collection
gmail.com
Project idea
[edit]What is the problem you're trying to solve?
[edit]Grand Canyon Museum Collection has an archive with 900,000 objects; 22,000 black and white photographs; 14,000 herbarium specimens
What is your solution?
[edit]stipends for wikimedians to travel to the Grand Canyon, stay in student housing, and digitize.
https://www.nps.gov/training/hoal/lodging.htm
such a road trip work for Wikimedia DC summer of monuments. http://blog.wikimediadc.org/2014/06/introducing-wikipedia-summer-of-monuments/
Project goals
[edit]- increase photos of historic photos in collection
- increase coverage of items in special collection
- demonstrate digitization methods
- build rapport with institution
Who will you be doing outreach with?
[edit]https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/historyculture/muscol.htm
Get Involved
[edit]About the idea creator
[edit]Participants
[edit]- Advisor
Endorsements
[edit]- Grand Canyon + herbarium + history = content goldmine in multiple content areas. Gamaliel (talk) 22:47, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
Expand your idea
[edit]No funding needed?
[edit]efficiency rooms are $60 per night
https://www.nps.gov/training/hoal/Docs/Albright%20Facility%20Information%20Handout.pdf
Project plan
[edit]Activities
[edit]contact Grand Canyon Museum Collection
schedule time
travel to Grand Canyon Museum Collection
upload scans, edit transcribed documents
Impact
[edit]Resources
[edit]Slowking4 will manage the project.
stipends: