The next Washington D.C./Baltimore-area meetup will be hosted by the National Archives at their College Park facility. This event will consist of a regular social meetup, a discussion with Dominic about WP:NARA, and a tour of the building by NARA staff. There will be time set aside for lunch, which will be provided, so be afraid to stay the whole day! ;-)
Afterward, we will be signing up for research cards and then there will be an afternoon editing session; we will also have the chance to scan and upload documents for Commons ( request documents for scanning by Fridy afternoon). You can stay for the whole day, or just come for some of the day's activities. People of all ages are welcome. There will be swag.
During the work week prior to this meetup, Dominic will be holding Wikipedia workshops for NARA staff, and some interested staff will be joining us on Saturday to edit.
Building security has asked us to try to have an accurate list of the attendees beforehand. If you are planning on coming, please send us an e-mail with your name to socialmedianara.gov; no record of this information will be kept after Saturday. (Note: no one will be turned away for not having RSVPed.) Since we were unable to secure funding for food, please be prepared to chip in (ATM on-site) for any food you have. We will be ordering enough for everyone.
Saturday, August 6, 11 am to 5 pm.
Time | Activity |
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11:00 - 11:30 | Arrival, security check, socializing (snacks!) |
11:30 - 12:15 | Brief introduction to WP:NARA by Dominic, possible talks by NARA staff, Q&A from Wikimedians |
12:15 - 1:00 | Lunch and socializing |
1:00 - 2:00 | Tours of the building and research card signups |
2:00 - 5:00 | Editathon, scanathon, uploadathon, categorizathon, etc. in the NARA research rooms and/or library |
National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, Maryland. College Park is about 25 minutes from central DC, 35 minutes from Arlington, Virginia and 45 minutes from Baltimore.
The building is not within walking distance of the College Park Metro station. If you are planning on taking public transportation, see the instructions below.
Getting there
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There is also a free shuttle bus from the Prince George's Plaza Metro station. It leaves15 minutes after every hour, which means you'd either be quite early or a little late.
From the College Park Metro station, take the C8 Metrobus, which is at the end of the line so the only place you can go is in the direction of White Flint (it runs about every 1/2 hour on Saturday from 6:10 in the morning until 8:45 at night), the PDF of the schedule can be retrieved here: http://wmata.com/bus/timetables/md/c8.pdf , get off at Adelphi Road and Archives II building, it's about a 12 minute bus ride, then walk .05 mile S to 8601 Adelphi Road. |
The National Archives is a large building with its own campus and free on-site parking. You will drive into the main entrance and there will be a security checkpoint. The guard will ask for ID and inquire about your reason for visiting; you may tell them that you are here for a public event and/or research. If coming by bus, you will be dropped off within this first checkpoint. There is one entrance to the building, where you will again have to show ID and go through an X-ray machine. After going through security, you will need to go straight ahead to the front desk to get your visitor pass for the tour and register any equipment you have brought. We are meeting in Lecture Room C, which is down the stairs to your right. There will be a sign and/or someone to point the way.
Note: the best way to stop notifications is to remove your name from this page: Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Invite/List.
There will be an opportunity to digitize new documents for Commons. Please search the online catalog and request any items would like to have pulled so they will be ready for us when we visit. Check the catalog record to be sure the documents you want are housed in the College Park facility (many of them are). For now, we may be restricted to still pictures. Items digitized by Wikimedians will be cataloged and added to the National Archives online catalog by NARA staff!
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Likely in these series: [1] and [2]
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I don't expect anything to be done, but this is just if anyone is interested. Connormah ( talk) 18:26, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Please be sure to post all of the pictures we took to Commons. I have created commons:Category:August 2011 NARA Backstage Pass for this purpose. You should also use this for uploading scans. When uploading scans, you may use commons:Template:NARA-image-full, filling in as many fields as you know. The unique identifiers we recorded were the "local identifier", while ARC is "None" (until NARA staff catalogs these items! :-) ). You may use {{ PD-USGov}} for copyright license. Don't worry too much about formatting; as long as these images are also tagged with commons:Category:August 2011 NARA Backstage Pass, we'll be able to find and standardize them all after they are uploaded. Dominic· t 18:03, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
This event was fun and we got to handle a lot of cool materials, but, of course, there are millions more records like the few we were able to scan. We can make meetups at the National Archives a regular occurrence! Not only are we helping improve the breadth of Commons' material, we are also helping the National Archives digitize its holdings. There will always be at least the large scanner for Wikimedians to use, and probably 1-2 others. In the future, we can make more specific requests, and work in other departments besides still pictures, like textual. We should aim for another scanning party sometime next month.
The next Washington D.C./Baltimore-area meetup will be hosted by the National Archives at their College Park facility. This event will consist of a regular social meetup, a discussion with Dominic about WP:NARA, and a tour of the building by NARA staff. There will be time set aside for lunch, which will be provided, so be afraid to stay the whole day! ;-)
Afterward, we will be signing up for research cards and then there will be an afternoon editing session; we will also have the chance to scan and upload documents for Commons ( request documents for scanning by Fridy afternoon). You can stay for the whole day, or just come for some of the day's activities. People of all ages are welcome. There will be swag.
During the work week prior to this meetup, Dominic will be holding Wikipedia workshops for NARA staff, and some interested staff will be joining us on Saturday to edit.
Building security has asked us to try to have an accurate list of the attendees beforehand. If you are planning on coming, please send us an e-mail with your name to socialmedianara.gov; no record of this information will be kept after Saturday. (Note: no one will be turned away for not having RSVPed.) Since we were unable to secure funding for food, please be prepared to chip in (ATM on-site) for any food you have. We will be ordering enough for everyone.
Saturday, August 6, 11 am to 5 pm.
Time | Activity |
---|---|
11:00 - 11:30 | Arrival, security check, socializing (snacks!) |
11:30 - 12:15 | Brief introduction to WP:NARA by Dominic, possible talks by NARA staff, Q&A from Wikimedians |
12:15 - 1:00 | Lunch and socializing |
1:00 - 2:00 | Tours of the building and research card signups |
2:00 - 5:00 | Editathon, scanathon, uploadathon, categorizathon, etc. in the NARA research rooms and/or library |
National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, Maryland. College Park is about 25 minutes from central DC, 35 minutes from Arlington, Virginia and 45 minutes from Baltimore.
The building is not within walking distance of the College Park Metro station. If you are planning on taking public transportation, see the instructions below.
Getting there
|
---|
There is also a free shuttle bus from the Prince George's Plaza Metro station. It leaves15 minutes after every hour, which means you'd either be quite early or a little late.
From the College Park Metro station, take the C8 Metrobus, which is at the end of the line so the only place you can go is in the direction of White Flint (it runs about every 1/2 hour on Saturday from 6:10 in the morning until 8:45 at night), the PDF of the schedule can be retrieved here: http://wmata.com/bus/timetables/md/c8.pdf , get off at Adelphi Road and Archives II building, it's about a 12 minute bus ride, then walk .05 mile S to 8601 Adelphi Road. |
The National Archives is a large building with its own campus and free on-site parking. You will drive into the main entrance and there will be a security checkpoint. The guard will ask for ID and inquire about your reason for visiting; you may tell them that you are here for a public event and/or research. If coming by bus, you will be dropped off within this first checkpoint. There is one entrance to the building, where you will again have to show ID and go through an X-ray machine. After going through security, you will need to go straight ahead to the front desk to get your visitor pass for the tour and register any equipment you have brought. We are meeting in Lecture Room C, which is down the stairs to your right. There will be a sign and/or someone to point the way.
Note: the best way to stop notifications is to remove your name from this page: Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Invite/List.
There will be an opportunity to digitize new documents for Commons. Please search the online catalog and request any items would like to have pulled so they will be ready for us when we visit. Check the catalog record to be sure the documents you want are housed in the College Park facility (many of them are). For now, we may be restricted to still pictures. Items digitized by Wikimedians will be cataloged and added to the National Archives online catalog by NARA staff!
List
|
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Likely in these series: [1] and [2]
|
I don't expect anything to be done, but this is just if anyone is interested. Connormah ( talk) 18:26, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Please be sure to post all of the pictures we took to Commons. I have created commons:Category:August 2011 NARA Backstage Pass for this purpose. You should also use this for uploading scans. When uploading scans, you may use commons:Template:NARA-image-full, filling in as many fields as you know. The unique identifiers we recorded were the "local identifier", while ARC is "None" (until NARA staff catalogs these items! :-) ). You may use {{ PD-USGov}} for copyright license. Don't worry too much about formatting; as long as these images are also tagged with commons:Category:August 2011 NARA Backstage Pass, we'll be able to find and standardize them all after they are uploaded. Dominic· t 18:03, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
This event was fun and we got to handle a lot of cool materials, but, of course, there are millions more records like the few we were able to scan. We can make meetups at the National Archives a regular occurrence! Not only are we helping improve the breadth of Commons' material, we are also helping the National Archives digitize its holdings. There will always be at least the large scanner for Wikimedians to use, and probably 1-2 others. In the future, we can make more specific requests, and work in other departments besides still pictures, like textual. We should aim for another scanning party sometime next month.