Grants:IdeaLab/Grand Canyon Museum Collection

statusdraft

Rapid Grants

Grand Canyon Museum Collection

field trip to Grand Canyon Museum Collection to build

targetCommons

budget (local currency)2000

budget (USD)2000

grant typeindividual

grantee• Slowking4

contact(s)• slowking4gmail.com

created on20 July 2017 (UTC)

friendly space expectations

ucc

privacystatement

Project idea

What is the problem you're trying to solve?

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?

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

• 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?

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

Get Involved

About the idea creator

• User:Slowking4

Participants

• Advisor

Endorsements

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

Expand your idea

No funding needed?

efficiency rooms are $60 per night

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

Project plan

Activities

contact Grand Canyon Museum Collection

schedule time

travel to Grand Canyon Museum Collection

upload scans, edit transcribed documents

Resources

Slowking4 will manage the project.

stipends: