Victoria Leachman
@vleachman.bsky.social
GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) worker, President of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand, & © geek interested in open knowledge, collections, content, & copying. Views expressed here are mine alone. She/her
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-182
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-182
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New funding opportunity for Wikimedia-related research! Grants up to $150K available. Apply by April 16th:
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Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Research & Technology Fund/Wikimedia Research Fund - Meta
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March 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New funding opportunity for Wikimedia-related research! Grants up to $150K available. Apply by April 16th:
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Finally got around to watching this. Gosh @siobhanleachman.bsky.social does good work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm9x...
Featured plenary talks at SPNHC-TDWG 2024
YouTube video by Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG
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March 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Finally got around to watching this. Gosh @siobhanleachman.bsky.social does good work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm9x...
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Wellington editors – a reminder that you have a meetup this weekend!
Everybody's welcome, beginners or experienced.
📅 Saturday 15 March, 10am – 12pm
📍 Programme Rooms, National Library
🔗 w.wiki/DQCQ
Everybody's welcome, beginners or experienced.
📅 Saturday 15 March, 10am – 12pm
📍 Programme Rooms, National Library
🔗 w.wiki/DQCQ
Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 15 March 2025 - Wikipedia
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March 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Wellington editors – a reminder that you have a meetup this weekend!
Everybody's welcome, beginners or experienced.
📅 Saturday 15 March, 10am – 12pm
📍 Programme Rooms, National Library
🔗 w.wiki/DQCQ
Everybody's welcome, beginners or experienced.
📅 Saturday 15 March, 10am – 12pm
📍 Programme Rooms, National Library
🔗 w.wiki/DQCQ
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This tension btw older open access initiatives and the rapacious scale of GenAI harvesting bots is not resolved by blocking good actors!
The NLA's suspension of my #trove API access has been picked up in this news story from the Australian Computing Society: https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/national-library-cracks-down-on-public-data-access.html #glam #OpenData
National Library cracks down on public data access
Archives are throttling access to data that was supposed to be open.
ia.acs.org.au
March 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This tension btw older open access initiatives and the rapacious scale of GenAI harvesting bots is not resolved by blocking good actors!
Doing work on my "other job" as President for @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social reporting, special votes, preparing for the AGM and best of all connecting with others doing strategy. There are times where I want to do this full time. I love making connections and leveraging for more impact.
March 13, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Doing work on my "other job" as President for @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social reporting, special votes, preparing for the AGM and best of all connecting with others doing strategy. There are times where I want to do this full time. I love making connections and leveraging for more impact.
Super proud of my nephew Kingsley. What a star!
Future stars secured as Australia U18s heroes sign with Queensland Reds
The Queensland Reds and Rugby Australia have locked two of the best teenage talent in the world after signing forwards Kingsley Uys and Will Ross.
www.rugby.com.au
February 17, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Super proud of my nephew Kingsley. What a star!
@siobhanleachman.bsky.social Thought you might like to know that a diary by George Hudson has been digitised. collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1918906
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February 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
@siobhanleachman.bsky.social Thought you might like to know that a diary by George Hudson has been digitised. collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1918906
So pleased that the Information Management & Archives Team at Te Papa have reached this stage in getting approval for our draft Disposal Authority with Archives NZ. This has been such a journey. www.archives.govt.nz/manage-infor...
www.archives.govt.nz
January 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
So pleased that the Information Management & Archives Team at Te Papa have reached this stage in getting approval for our draft Disposal Authority with Archives NZ. This has been such a journey. www.archives.govt.nz/manage-infor...
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Government includes copyright reform in its Fall Economic Statement. Says it will amend the Copyright Act to include a new resale right for visual artists, establishing an extra royalty where their works are resold.
budget.canada.ca/update-misea...
budget.canada.ca/update-misea...
December 16, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Government includes copyright reform in its Fall Economic Statement. Says it will amend the Copyright Act to include a new resale right for visual artists, establishing an extra royalty where their works are resold.
budget.canada.ca/update-misea...
budget.canada.ca/update-misea...
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Perpetually annoyed by Australian articles claiming things will become public domain based on US copyright terms. Please could you interview an Australian lawyer? Sigh www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025
Popeye and Tintin are among the iconic works to enter the public domain in the US from next year.
www.abc.net.au
December 17, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Perpetually annoyed by Australian articles claiming things will become public domain based on US copyright terms. Please could you interview an Australian lawyer? Sigh www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
When I talk about my museum work and digitisation, it's not just imaging collection items. It's also this blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2024/12/16/h...
How do you catalogue a 150-year-old library? | Te Papa’s Blog
Te Aka Matua Research Library at Te Papa currently has a collection of over 60,000 books and supports the work of Te Papa kaimahi with its wide-ranging books and resources about Aotearoa New Zealan…
blog.tepapa.govt.nz
December 16, 2024 at 4:24 AM
When I talk about my museum work and digitisation, it's not just imaging collection items. It's also this blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2024/12/16/h...
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New Zealand Ministry of Health covid data GitHub archive just updated (it has been about 3 weeks since the last update.
December 9, 2024 at 11:09 PM
New Zealand Ministry of Health covid data GitHub archive just updated (it has been about 3 weeks since the last update.
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Reminder: Tomorrow, Sunday the 8th of December at 12 noon, the Aotearoa New Zealand Wiki meet up is happening virtually. The agenda and the Jitsi link can be found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Meetup/Aotearoa New Zealand Online/56 - Wikipedia
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December 7, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Reminder: Tomorrow, Sunday the 8th of December at 12 noon, the Aotearoa New Zealand Wiki meet up is happening virtually. The agenda and the Jitsi link can be found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Any researchers out there with opinions about the cuts to Marsden funding? Contact Deborah - she want to hear from you. And can actually help.
#nzpol
#nzpol
An excellent meeting this morning with Drs Kroon, Watene, Dare and Grix, talking about the cut to Marsden funding for research in humanities and social sciences, and working out a possible strategy.
I’d love to come and talk to researchers about this. Just email me and we can set something up.
I’d love to come and talk to researchers about this. Just email me and we can set something up.
December 6, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Any researchers out there with opinions about the cuts to Marsden funding? Contact Deborah - she want to hear from you. And can actually help.
#nzpol
#nzpol
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Over 250 Deans of Humanities (that’s subjects like History, Philosophy & languages like Te Reo & Chinese) & social sciences (subjects like economics /political science) strongly condemn the govt’s effective end to all humanities & social science research funding in NZ dassh.edu.au/deans-condem...
December 5, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Over 250 Deans of Humanities (that’s subjects like History, Philosophy & languages like Te Reo & Chinese) & social sciences (subjects like economics /political science) strongly condemn the govt’s effective end to all humanities & social science research funding in NZ dassh.edu.au/deans-condem...
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@angelo-af.bsky.social apropos of above, maybe you can suggest to UoC that including staff in the university calendar again might be a useful thing for verification of employment? It needs to be easier for people outside UoC to spot the fakes.
December 4, 2024 at 11:19 PM
@angelo-af.bsky.social apropos of above, maybe you can suggest to UoC that including staff in the university calendar again might be a useful thing for verification of employment? It needs to be easier for people outside UoC to spot the fakes.
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It's nice to read a level-headed analysis of what the report actually says. The immediate news media response was unedifying.
Conventional wisdom in 2024 seems to dictate that the Covid-19 response was an overreaction, but that conventional wisdom is wrong.
My analysis on the Royal Commission report and the response to it:
newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/03/h...
My analysis on the Royal Commission report and the response to it:
newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/03/h...
Historical revisionism on Covid threatens NZ's pandemic preparedness
Comment: The Royal Commission report fundamentally validates the strategic and tactical choices made during the acute phase of the pandemic
newsroom.co.nz
December 2, 2024 at 11:51 PM
It's nice to read a level-headed analysis of what the report actually says. The immediate news media response was unedifying.
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Some comments from me, @nicgaston.bsky.social, @troybaisden.bsky.social & @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social on the gutting of funding for humanities and social sciences in Aotearoa New Zealand… www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/12/04/g...
Govt cuts humanities and social science funding - Expert Reaction
Humanities and social science funding has been cut from the Marsden Fund, the main fund for 'blue-skies' research in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The areas that have been cut include research in subjects lik...
www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
December 4, 2024 at 7:31 AM
Some comments from me, @nicgaston.bsky.social, @troybaisden.bsky.social & @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social on the gutting of funding for humanities and social sciences in Aotearoa New Zealand… www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/12/04/g...
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Squished (sixteenth-century?) spider in a vast 11-volume edition of the works of St Augustine (Basel, 1506) @theulspeccoll.bsky.social (Peterborough.A.6.1-6). #spider #marginalia #saints #christianity #rarebooks #augustine #collecting #basel
December 4, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Squished (sixteenth-century?) spider in a vast 11-volume edition of the works of St Augustine (Basel, 1506) @theulspeccoll.bsky.social (Peterborough.A.6.1-6). #spider #marginalia #saints #christianity #rarebooks #augustine #collecting #basel
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What will enter the #publicdomain in 2025? Each day through December we’ll open a window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights! publicdomainreview.org/features/ent...
(+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)
(+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)
December 1, 2024 at 5:11 PM
What will enter the #publicdomain in 2025? Each day through December we’ll open a window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights! publicdomainreview.org/features/ent...
(+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)
(+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)
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The only reason Nigel Farage has not yet jumped on the Elgin Marbles bandwagon is that he can’t quite bring himself to object to sending something foreign back where it came from.
December 3, 2024 at 4:04 PM
The only reason Nigel Farage has not yet jumped on the Elgin Marbles bandwagon is that he can’t quite bring himself to object to sending something foreign back where it came from.
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I've said before that govts have let both physical and intellectual infrastructure in this country run down over years and we're going to wear the cost of that over the coming generation.
Today's Marsden decision is as big a vandalism of public capacitor in NZ as the cook strait ferry cancellation.
Today's Marsden decision is as big a vandalism of public capacitor in NZ as the cook strait ferry cancellation.
December 4, 2024 at 1:36 AM
I've said before that govts have let both physical and intellectual infrastructure in this country run down over years and we're going to wear the cost of that over the coming generation.
Today's Marsden decision is as big a vandalism of public capacitor in NZ as the cook strait ferry cancellation.
Today's Marsden decision is as big a vandalism of public capacitor in NZ as the cook strait ferry cancellation.
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It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.
December 4, 2024 at 1:09 AM
It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.
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Courtesy of Meaghan Sorce at the @harvard.bsky.social museum of natural history. 😉
December 15, 2023 at 2:06 AM
Courtesy of Meaghan Sorce at the @harvard.bsky.social museum of natural history. 😉