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Wikimedia News n. 79, June 26th, 2014

State of the Map EU 2014, by OSM-AT, [CC-BY 2.0]

A bridge between Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap

From June 13th to 15th in Karlsruhe, Germany, it was been held the annual conference of the european OpenStreetMap community: State of the Map-EU 2014. As anticipated in previous issues, Wikimedia Italia accepted a request for support by the national community of mappers in creating the official Italian chapter of OpenStreetMap, and then we are quite interested in their initiatives. Also, two members of our board, Simone Cortesi (vice president) and Cristian Consonni (treasurer), participated to the event. In particular, Cristian introduced a personal project aimed to keep together both our "souls", the encyclopedic one and the mapping. The title of his presentation telles about a bridge between OSM and Wikipedia: Wikipedia tags in OSM: building a bridge between OSM and Wikipedia; if you are interested we suggest to watch the video of Cristian's speech. Other Italian speakers were Marco Quaggiotto (BikeDistrict), Alfonso Crisci (amount of OSM data) and Francesca Murtas (SardSOS). The conference was a fruitful chance for exchanging views, and among the initiatives we would like to highlight the 'poster competition', a selection of which can be found in this page. For more information about the event you can follow the hashtag #sotmeu, while to know where the conference has been held... just search Karlsruhe on OpenStreetMap.

Virginia Gentilini on Edmund Mach Foundation bulletin, from http://www.fmach.it

More GLAM

The board of Wikimedia Italia appointed Virginia Gentilini as head of GLAM projects (Galleris, Libraries, Archives, Museums). Given the amount of requests from institutions willing to begin joint activities on open knowledge with our association, a single contact person was in order. Virginia, who proved to be a very active volunteer during the years, will coordinate all the initiatives with Libraries, Schools, Museuns and Municipalities. Among the last activies oversighted by Virginia we would like to recall a cycle of classes at Edmund Mach Foundation, that devoted one fulla page of its June bulletin to that. Anyone who would like to join the Institution committee, established and managed by Virginia, can contect her directly, while members can stay updated via the dedicated page in our website (log in required).

Wiki Loves Monuments

Genova and Matera, cities participating in the Wiki Loves Monuments competition, collage by Alessandra Gasparini. CC-BY-SA 3.0

Having more than 100 institutions joining Wiki Loves Monuments Italia, from parishes to hospitals, to municipalities to foundations, the list of monuments is getting new elements. Then, it is time to check your camera and before your next field trip you should check if your destination is one of the competition places. To keep up-to-date on news, get spoilers about the prizes and become aware of local initiative, you can subscribe the forthnightly newsletter. here a sample of the last issue, published last week.

OpenStreetMap

La zona di Glasgow chiamata Gorbals stampata in 3D

In questo numero intendiamo fornirvi qualche consiglio su come imparare a contribuire a OpenStreetMap e illustrare alcune degli utilizzi possibili della mappatura open. In particolare per chi vuole impratichirsi con OpenStreetMap una bella attività è quella del controllo qualità dei dati: il sito MapRoulette ha pubblicato da qualche tempo un insieme di sfide dedicate all'Italia, alimentate dai controlli eseguiti da alcuni membri della nostra comunità che propongono modifiche semplici e utili per chi userà i dati. A chi invece preferisce prendere un aperitivo al sole, suggeriamo di guardare se il locale che visiterà sia all'ombra tramite il nuovo sito Pints in the Sun.
Altre notizie su openstreetmap.it.

Appuntamenti passati e futuri

• Sabato 14 giugno Andrea Zanni (Presidente di Wikimedia Italia) e Virginia Gentilini hanno partecipato a Bologna al RENA Festival, dedicato alle comunità del cambiamento. È stata una giornata di discussioni e brainstorming, con oltre 450 persone e attivisti provenienti dal mondo del no profit, del civic hacking, della politica. Una splendida occasione di conoscere altre associazioni che lavorano nel mondo dell'open (dagli open data della pubblica amministrazione all'open access delle università).
• 27/28/29 giugno 2014, Bologna: Wikimedia partecipa con due interventi all'Hackmeeting 2014 presso il centro sociale XM24. Gli interventi riguardano l'open access (Piero Grandesso e la bibliotecaria Ornella Russo) e Wikipedia come esempio di comunità a confronto con la comunità hacker (Ginevra Sanvitale).
• Lunedì 7 luglio 2014, Siena: Ginevra Sanvitale (Responsabile dei progetti) e Virginia Gentilini partecipano alla Conferenza Internazionale ICOM Musei e paesaggi culturali.