Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/NMAI COMM535 2015

National Museum of the American Indian
An Edit-a-Thon

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Edit-a-thon -- The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, welcomes participants to its edit-a-thon focused on Native American issues in Wikipedia. We will be working with Wikipedia and American University class COMM535 and journalism professor Andrew Lih.

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; When

: Tuesday, March 31, 2015

: 2:30 - 5:30pm

; Who

: The program is open to the public, and will be conducted in conjunction with a communications/journalism course taught by Andrew Lih at the American University on Wikipedia & Public Knowledge. Contact Andrew Lih and sign up below if you'd like to attend.

; Where

: National Museum of the American Indian

: 4th St & Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20560 ([http://nmai.si.edu/visit/washington/ directions here])

: Fourth floor, rooms 4018 and 4019 in the NE corner

; What to bring

: A fully charged laptop computer with charger or any device that can edit Wikipedia

; RSVP Required

: Please sign up below if you plan on joining us.

; [https://wikimediadc.hackpad.com/NMAI-edit-a-thon-2015 Etherpad shared notes for the day's event]

Schedule

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|+National Museum of the American Indian Edit-a-Thon Schedule

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! rowspan ="1" style="background:Grey; color:White;border-bottom:2px solid light grey;" | Activity

align=center|2:30-3:00 pm

|align=center|Early arrivals

align=center|3:00-3:05 pm

|align=center|Welcome

rowspan align=center|3:05-3:10 pm

|align=center|Introductions by Holly Stewart, National Museum of the American Indian

rowspan align=center|3:10-3:40 pm

|colspan ="3" align=center|Museum Research in Real Time

rowspan align=center|3:40-5:30 pm

|colspan ="3" align=center| Edit-a-Thon & Discussion

Questions? Add your own

  • How do I RSVP?

:*Add your name to the list below if you plan on joining us remotely.

  • Can I share what I’m doing?

:* Yes, please feel free to share what you’re working on on your preferred social network using #glamwiki and invite your friends to join us remotely!

RSVP

Yes

  1. Fuzheado | Talk
  2. COMM535 students (15)
  3. Duckduckstop (talk) 19:37, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Articles and content to work on

  • Backtracking the editing history of articles relevant to an upcoming exhibition
  • Artists in the museum's collections

Resources

  • Incan Engineering: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH5Vajc5g_M&list=PLS6nSmuURFJA4txBT5GVV1C_HLTXQRvD0 Inka Engineering Symposium on YouTube]
  • Archaeology of the Americas: Cerámica de los Ancestros: Central America’s Past Revealed- [http://www.latino.si.edu/PDF/Revealing_Ancestral_Central_America.pdf pdf of exhibition catalogue]
  • Norval Morrisseau & George Morrison: Before and after the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes - pdf of exhibition catalogue via USB on-site
  • Exhibition catalogues, research files

= Websites, library catalogs, & databases =

  • Flickr Commons, Smithsonian Institution - http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/
  • Smithsonian Institution Archives Collections Search - http://siarchives.si.edu/collections
  • National Museum of the American Indian Collections Search - http://www.nmai.si.edu/searchcollections/home.aspx

Reference book citations to copy and paste

  • {{Cite book

| publisher = Greenwood Press

| isbn = 9780313337628

| last = Everett

| first = Deborah

| title = Encyclopedia of Native American Artists

| location = Westport, Conn

| series = Artists of the American mosaic, ISSN 1939-1218

| date = 2008

}}

  • {{Cite book

| publisher = Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

| isbn = 9781888332308

| last = Klein

| first = Richard

| coauthors = Fergus M Bordewich, Paul Chaat Smith, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art |no-tracking=true

| title = No reservations: Native American history and culture in contemporary art

| location = Ridgefield, Conn.

| date = 2006

}}

  • {{Cite book

| edition = 1st

| publisher = NMAI Editions, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

| isbn = 9781933565156

| last = National Museum of the American Indian

| others = Kathleen E. Ash-Milby (ed.)

| title = Hide: Skin as Material and Metaphor

| location = Washington [D.C.]

| series = NMAI editions

| date = 2009

}}

  • {{Cite book

| edition = 1st

| publisher = University of North Carolina Press

| isbn = 9780807832646

| last = National Museum of the American Indian

| others = Duane Blue Spruce, Tanya Thrasher (eds.)

| title = The land has memory: indigenous knowledge, native landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian

| location = Chapel Hill

| date = 2008

}}

  • {{Cite book

| publisher = Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

| isbn = 0971916330

| last = National Museum of the American Indian

| coauthors = Alexander Hamilton United States Custom House (New York, N.Y.)

|no-tracking=true | others = Gerald McMaster (ed.)

| title = New Tribe, New York: the Urban Vision Quest

| location = Washington, D.C

| date = 2005

}}

  • {{Cite book

| edition = 1st

| publisher = NMAI Editions

| isbn = 9781933565088

| last = National Museum of the American Indian

| others = Kathleen E. Ash-Milby (ed.)

| title = Off the Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination

| location = Washington, DC ; New York

| date = 2007

}}

= Issues =

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Resources

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= Websites, library catalogs, & databases =

  • Flickr Commons, Smithsonian Institution - http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/
  • Smithsonian Institution Archives Collections Search - http://siarchives.si.edu/collections
  • Smithsonian Libraries catalog portal [http://library.si.edu/research Tools for the Researcher]
  • Smithsonian Libraries [http://library.si.edu/free-databases-and-collections free databases and collections]
  • Smithsonian Libraries [http://qr7ug7ul2q.search.serialssolutions.com/ article indexes and databases] (some accessible only from terminals located in the library)
  • [http://collections.si.edu/search/ Smithsonian Collections Search Center]
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Reference book citations to copy and paste

Help after the event

Results and outcomes

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