Wikimedia Digitization User Group/Reports/2011/SFPD

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SFPD - Swiss Foundation Public Domain

Public Domain Project

• 2011 - Timeline: English, German

January

• The Public Domain Project supports the 'Public Domain Jam 2011' (slogan: The world 70 years ago belongs to all of us!). An intergenerational New Year's brunch for children and adults. This took place at Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich.

March

• Wikimedia increased the funding sum to finance a ELP laser turntable

May

• With the signed contract between Wikimedia Deutschland and the Public Domain Project, as a thematic organization we are now a Wikimedia movement affiliate

July

• Official announcement about our agreement in the Wikimedia Blog

September

• Channel K donated us a Studer B67A tape recorder for the digitization of our reel-to-reel tapes

October

• The first available audio file (digitized with our ELP laser turntable) is the famous Trumpet voluntary (Wikimedia Commons file) by Jeremiah Clarke (1674-1707), which was formerly erroneously assigned to Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

November

• 'Slides' of Christoph Zimermmann's presentation at the Linux Day in Dornbirn

December

• Michael Schmid lends us his RME Fireface 800 for the high quality digitization of our 78 rpm gramophone records