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: