Brief of partners

GLAM

Galleries

• Africa Heritage: Offers a wide range of services in the field of cultural heritage management and the arts, ranging from academic research to fundraising and project evaluation.

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Galleries

Art House Africa: A private company that serves as a hub for artists information and also working as an employment bureau for artists and artisans plying in different forms of trades. Runs the successful Lagalleria Art Gallery in Lilongwe

Galleries

• Livingstone Gallery: • Owned by Central Africana, Malawi's premier

book publisher, it has an impressive collection of books and artworks on/by Malawians.

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Libraries

• Malawi Library Information Consortium (MALICO): Participates in the acquisition and delivery of relevant electronic resources. With support of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and the Open Society Institute et al, MALICO mounted four VSATs four Malawian universities in 2005. It also assists with digitising Malawi publications.

The Malawi National Digital Repository

• ( www.ndr.mw:8080/xmlui): An open access e-repository platform where Malawian research and other relevant work reach many and has a direct impact on policies and practices in Malawi, Africa and worldwide.

Archives

• National Archives of Malawi: it collects, organizes, preserves and make

available to the Malawi nation, and other interested persons, info. which reflect the country’s historical, political, judiciary, religious, economic, social and cultural heritage.

Archives

• Malawi Folktales Project:

• an NLS initiative, it preserves traditional forms of folktales in digital form with the aim of making it freely available to all.

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Archives

• Society of Malawi: • Promote interest in literary, historical and

scientific matters• Discover and record facts and information

about Malawi which might otherwise be lost

Museums

• Musuems of Malawi: Under the Dept. of Culture in GoM, runs Malawi's main museums

Museums

• Oral Literature Research Programme:

• an independent research institution that systematically contextualising and documenting orally transmitted African cultural traditions, notably oral literature, musical instruments, local technologies, ritual events.

museums

• Cultural and Museum Centre Karonga

Museums

The Tony Patel Museum: • Private museum located on the outskirts of

Blantyre, run by Dr Tony Patel, a notable historian.

Museums

• Mlambe Foundation:

• Contributes to the conservation of cultural heritage in Malawi and to promote cultural and economic sustainable development in the country inspired by Malawi's rich traditions and past.

Other- Media

• Times Group:

• Malawi's oldest publishing house. Have archival material mainly in form pf photographs and newspapers going back as far back as the 1930's.

Media

• Nation Publications: Malawi's prominent newspaper publisher

• MISA: The primary advocate for media freedom and freedom of expression in southern Africa.

Book Publishers

• • Kachere Series: Chancellor College based

publishing house, mainly on social issues.• •

Book Publishers

• Central Africana Limited – Malawi’s prominent publisher

• Over 3 Million images on Malawi

Bloggers

• Afrika Aphukira (Africa will grow): Pan Malawian/Pan African blogger. Very influential.

• Levi Kabwato – Brilliant commentator

Benefits of GLAM – to be emphasied to partners

• It fits in closely with the core mission of the partners of preserving and developing malawi's rich heritage.

• It step jumps the partners' reach by increasing potential audiences to millions.

Benefits of GLAM

• · Footfalls to the partners are likely to increase

through greater awareness of the Museum’s and knowledge. • It will provide a well-tested platform for the

digitisation efforts of the partners. Staff will find it satisfying given its global reach and impact.

Benefits of GLAM

• There is a strong likelihood of higher public relations coverage of the partners because of the Wikipedia’s goodwill.

Benefits to Wikimedia/Wikipedia

• · Access to the repository of knowledge and talent pool from the partners

• · Opportunity to improve content from Malawi especially as regards to its rich cultural heritage

Benefits to Wikimedia/Wikipedia

• Platform to support new editors to Wikipedia from staff and visitors.

Schedule

• Will be elaborated upon only after further deliberations with GLAM partners.

• Recommended that a pilot for 6 months be considered, as that appears to be reasonable time frame for the required planning, mobilisation, capacity building, co-ordination etc.

Outcomes

• A categorised image repository of the museum, with metadata and all images licensed under CC-BY-SA for free educational and non- commercial usage and adaptation with adequate attribution.

Objectives

• digitise, document and share the repository of the GLAM partners with the rest of Malawi and indeed the world through:

• · Organizing training sessions on how to add and edit content on Wikipedia for staff

• · Organise editing events where staff, existing Wikipedia editors and interested visitors work together to improve articles on Museum artefacts

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Objectives

• Build capability within partners' staff to independently run initiative s

• · Measuring web views of partners' articles (using Wikipedia tools)

• · Digitizing media content under the CC-BY-SA (free-to-share with attribution license)