> On Tuesday, May 24th, at noon at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History
> and New Media (Rm. 570 in Research I), Wikipedian Liam Wyatt will talk
> about the nature of history on Wikipedia and the attempts by the
> crowd-sourced encyclopedia to enlist traditional institutions such as
> universities, libraries, and museums in the co-creation of better
> historical articles. Wyatt has been Vice President of Wikimedia
> Australia and the�Wikipedian in Residence� at the British Museum,
> where he worked with curators to improve the writing about and
> knowledge of the many historical artifacts the Museum contains. Wyatt
> is currently the Wikimedia Foundation�s Cultural Partnerships Fellow.
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> Also coming up at the center is the fourth annual THATCamp (The
> Humanities and Technology Camp), June 3-5, this year featuring a
> special day (Friday, June 3) called BootCamp, with instruction on
> basic topics from HTML to digital maps:
> http://chnm2011.thatcamp.org/bootcamp/. Among other sessions, one of
> Google's leading mapping engineers will be talking about how to
> overlay historical maps and data on Google Earth.
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Rana C. FitzGerald Graduate Coordinator Department of History and Art 
History George Mason University Robinson Hall B 354 Tel: 703-993-1248 
Fax: 703-993-1251 http://historyarthistory.gmu.edu/