Collaborations

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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[edit]

Botanic Gardens[edit]

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[edit]

Federal Government[edit]

Contact person: Alberto

Federal Government Agency Personnel & Organization[edit]

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

KIK-IRPA[edit]

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[edit]

Royal Observatory[edit]

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

Project lead: M0tty (Antoine)

Musea[edit]

MoMu - Fashion Museum Antwerp[edit]

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[edit]

Romaine & Spinster

M - Museum Leuven[edit]

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

Other cultural organisations[edit]

Creative Commons Belgium[edit]

Participating in Wiki Loves Art.

OKFN[edit]

Participating in Wiki Loves Art.

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

PACKED VZW[edit]

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.

Note:

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

Gent University[edit]

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

OKFN[edit]

Participating in Wiki Loves Art.

Faro[edit]

Participating in Wiki Loves Art.

Europeana[edit]

Communicated with workshops for cultural institutions.