Grants:IdeaLab/Grand Canyon Museum Collection

statusdraft
Grand Canyon Museum Collection
field trip to Grand Canyon Museum Collection to build
targetCommons
budget (local currency)2000
budget (USD)2000
grant typeindividual
granteeSlowking4
contact(s)• slowking4(_AT_)gmail.com


Project idea

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What is the problem you're trying to solve?

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Grand Canyon Museum Collection has an archive with 900,000 objects; 22,000 black and white photographs; 14,000 herbarium specimens

What is your solution?

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stipends for wikimedians to travel to the Grand Canyon, stay in student housing, and digitize.
https://www.nps.gov/training/hoal/lodging.htm

such a road trip work for Wikimedia DC summer of monuments. http://blog.wikimediadc.org/2014/06/introducing-wikipedia-summer-of-monuments/

Project goals

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  • increase photos of historic photos in collection
  • increase coverage of items in special collection
  • demonstrate digitization methods
  • build rapport with institution

Who will you be doing outreach with?

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https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/historyculture/muscol.htm

Get Involved

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About the idea creator

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Participants

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  • Advisor

Endorsements

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  • Grand Canyon + herbarium + history = content goldmine in multiple content areas. Gamaliel (talk) 22:47, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Expand your idea

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No funding needed?

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efficiency rooms are $60 per night

https://www.nps.gov/training/hoal/Docs/Albright%20Facility%20Information%20Handout.pdf

Project plan

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Activities

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contact Grand Canyon Museum Collection

schedule time

travel to Grand Canyon Museum Collection

upload scans, edit transcribed documents

Impact

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Resources

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Slowking4 will manage the project.

stipends: