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Meetup 12 - Wednesday 27 August 2014

Time: 7pm

Location: 27 North Terrace, Adelaide. (UniSA building located in the red SM building next door to the Riviera Hotel, on the corner of Gray St. Signs will be on the front door. Enter via the side door 10-15m down Gray St - Knock loudly).

N.B. After 8pm parking is restricted to resident permit in Gray Street. This is enforced by council inspectors, even at night. Parking spaces are usually available in Hindley Street, or a little further South.

Agenda: Discussion on setting up a semantic media wiki for Port Adelaide

Guest: Meredith Blundell, local history librarian at the Port Adelaide Library

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Pre-meetup discussion

Resources

Port Adelaide Enfield Local History - a new addition to the Council's website, using a GIS-style map interface with historical aerial photography and maps to geolocate the local library's collection of around 2,000 historic photos. The launch of the website was reported in the Portside Messenger as "Story map of Port Adelaide Enfield's colourful past an Australian-first" on 20 August 2014.

Couper-Smartt, J (February 2003). Port Adelaide: Tales from a "Commodious Harbour". Friends of the South Australian Maritime Museum Inc. ISBN 0-646-42058-5.

The proposal for the Port Adelaide semantic wiki involves creating a clone of the community history wikis discussed by Darren Peacock at last month's Meetup:

Now and Then Mallala

Now and Then Gawler

Now and Then Willunga

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Summary of Meetup 12

Attendees

Alex Sims, Bahudhara, Bilby, Doug butler and Mersdith Blundell (guest)

Apologies

Reports and comments

There was a general discussion of the setting up of a 'Now and Then' wiki for Port Adelaide. Bahudhara gave an outline of the current status of the 'Now and Then' wikis per his recent discussion with Darren Peacock, who is currently Executive Officer with the National Trust of SA, and has been selected to be NTSA's next CEO when the incumbent, Eric Heapy, retires at the end of December.

Meredith advised that event registration for the state-wide program 'Every Generation' in October had already closed, so it wouldn't be possible to advertise the launch of the wiki in the event calendar.

All agreed that a more realistic timetable would be to have a public launch at the end of January. Meredith indicated that the Port Adelaide Library would be willing to host the public launch, and could supply nibbles. etc.

It was also suggested that it would be good to have other organisations involved at an early stage, such as the Port of Adelaide branch of the National Trust, Port Adelaide Historical Society, Woodville Historical Society, Port Adelaide University of the Third Age, etc.

In the coming months the following steps need to be taken:

licensing, intellectual property, web-hosting issues (NTSA State office)
cloning of the empty shell of the wiki (Darren Peacock; apparently a relatively simple task)
training the trainers (Adelaide Wikipedia Users group)
training the volunteers
creating a number of articles so that there is sufficient content for the public launch in January

Outcomes

Bahudhara to follow up contacts with the other community organisations, to inform them of the project and to ask whether they are likely to want to be involved.