This project built on the success of the GLAM project at the British Museum. This project was a collaboration between Wikimedia UK and Derby Museums. "
If we build it, they will come"
... and over 1,250 articles in languages other than English
Victuallers (
talk) 11:07, 9 September 2011 (UTC)reply
Outcomes
Working with Wikipedia - a Museum's PerspectiveA quick hit of demoing
QR codes at the museum in FebruaryNext generation multilingual
QR codes developed as a result of work in Derby by @Edent and @VictuallersThe King of Rome - first new article after at the backstage pass
Liam's talk in Canberra mentions three of four museums who are doing something, BM, Indianapolis, one or two others and Derby. This project is mentioned 12 mins in, but its a very relevant talk anyway
... that the rare mineral Matlockite (
PbFCl) (pictured) is named after a
town in Derbyshire? (21 January 2011 6,000 hits) Matlockite
... that
Derby's Silk Mill is used as a design theme for the bobbins on the St Alkmund's Way Footbridge and a needle on the nearby swingbridge? (20 January 2011 1,600 hits to Silk Mill)
... that in the first scientific study of
fossils in English, William Martin speculated that
horn coral(pictured) was a kind of
bamboo and said another fossil was not a small
crocodile tail? (6 March 2011 3,000 hits)
... that Richard Knill Freeman, who designed British municipal buildings, schools and museums, also designed
a church in Moscow in the 1880s? (9 March 2011 1,600 hits)
... that Samuel Rayner, who painted the Derby Exhibition in 1839 (pictured), had one of his paintings exhibited in the
Royal Academy when he was only 15? (2? March 2011 2,000 hits)
... that Benjamin Vulliamy, who designed the clock that defined time at the
Prime Meridian, also designed clocks with porcelain cases? (30 May 2011 1,400 hits)
This project built on the success of the GLAM project at the British Museum. This project was a collaboration between Wikimedia UK and Derby Museums. "
If we build it, they will come"
... and over 1,250 articles in languages other than English
Victuallers (
talk) 11:07, 9 September 2011 (UTC)reply
Outcomes
Working with Wikipedia - a Museum's PerspectiveA quick hit of demoing
QR codes at the museum in FebruaryNext generation multilingual
QR codes developed as a result of work in Derby by @Edent and @VictuallersThe King of Rome - first new article after at the backstage pass
Liam's talk in Canberra mentions three of four museums who are doing something, BM, Indianapolis, one or two others and Derby. This project is mentioned 12 mins in, but its a very relevant talk anyway
... that the rare mineral Matlockite (
PbFCl) (pictured) is named after a
town in Derbyshire? (21 January 2011 6,000 hits) Matlockite
... that
Derby's Silk Mill is used as a design theme for the bobbins on the St Alkmund's Way Footbridge and a needle on the nearby swingbridge? (20 January 2011 1,600 hits to Silk Mill)
... that in the first scientific study of
fossils in English, William Martin speculated that
horn coral(pictured) was a kind of
bamboo and said another fossil was not a small
crocodile tail? (6 March 2011 3,000 hits)
... that Richard Knill Freeman, who designed British municipal buildings, schools and museums, also designed
a church in Moscow in the 1880s? (9 March 2011 1,600 hits)
... that Samuel Rayner, who painted the Derby Exhibition in 1839 (pictured), had one of his paintings exhibited in the
Royal Academy when he was only 15? (2? March 2011 2,000 hits)
... that Benjamin Vulliamy, who designed the clock that defined time at the
Prime Meridian, also designed clocks with porcelain cases? (30 May 2011 1,400 hits)
