Collaborations

Wikimedia Belgium is commited to gather free knowledge to make it available to others. Therefore we want to collaborate with other institutions and organisations for this purpose.

Who is in touch with whom, when have you met and what is planned or has been done?

Flemish Government

Botanic Gardens

Quentin Groom from the Botanic Gardens of Meise contacted us after the Wikimedia/UNESCO Expert Seminar on Mass Digitisation. Among other things they will be running a Wikipedia workshop

Project lead: M0tty (Antoine)
Project deputy: you!

Next steps:

• Set up a meeting and discuss cooperation options

Note:

• Romaine has spoken with several persons from the Botanic Gardens and had contact details (2014).

Vlaams Instituut voor Archivering

• Vlaams Instituut voor Archivering (VIAA) (Digital Multimedia archives)

Federal Government

Contact person: Alberto

Federal Government Agency Personnel & Organization

Romaine gave a presentation for them (2014) and more communication.

KIK-IRPA

Project lead: M0tty (Antoine)
Project deputy: MADe (talk)

Note:

• Romaine has communicated with KIK-IRPA several times for Wiki Loves Monuments and other subjects.

Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis

• Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis

Royal Observatory

Met at the Federal Government Working Group on Open Access. Can help locally but also through ESA.

Project lead: M0tty (Antoine)

Musea

MoMu - Fashion Museum Antwerp

Contact person: Romaine (organized edit-a-thon with them and gave presentation in 2013 + helping them with donating content to Commons)

Museum Plantin Moretus in Antwerp

Romaine & Spinster

M - Museum Leuven

Geert has met in 2013 the responsible of the M - Museum Leuven at an exposition of Michiel Coxie.

Other cultural organisations

Creative Commons Belgium

Participating in Wiki Loves Art.

• Contact person: Romaine

OKFN

Participating in Wiki Loves Art.

• Contact person: Romaine

Romaine is on their mailing list and there has been some communication.

PACKED VZW

Henk Vanstappen from Packed who is working on opencultuurdata.be contacted us after the Wikimedia/UNESCO Expert Seminar on Mass Digitisation.

Participating in Wiki Loves Art.

• Contact person: Romaine

Note:

• Romaine gave a presentation for them and communicated with them (2013).

Gent University

In 2014 there was an edit-a-thon at Gent University and an image donation followed.

• Contact persons: Spinster & Romaine

OKFN

Participating in Wiki Loves Art.

• Contact person: Romaine

Faro

Participating in Wiki Loves Art.

• Contact person: Romaine

Europeana

Communicated with workshops for cultural institutions.

• Contact person: Romaine