IDCC19

The [http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc19 14th International Digital Curation Conference] was held in Australia from 4 - 7 February 2019, at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Melbourne The University of Melbourne]. The theme of the conference was 'Collaborations and Partnerships: addressing the big digital challenges together'.
[[File:2019 IDCC WikiJournals.jpg|thumb|Title slide IDCC 2019 presentation]]

Wikimedia Australia was represented at IDCC19 by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Evolution_and_evolvability Dr Thomas Shafee], who presented a session titled: [https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/File:2019_IDCC_WikiJournals.pdf Wikipedia-integrated academic journals: Ideal platforms for outreach and public communication].

==Report==

===Goals===
To ensure that the International Digital Curation community (archivist, curator, librarian and academic) is kept aware of the main relevant developments in Wikimedia projects via presentation at IDCC2019.

===Outcomes===
This grant supported two main outputs.

;Presentations
During attendance of the initial talks, I realised that Wikidata and WikiJournals would be the primary interest for the audience, so re-balanced my live demonstration to prioritize the Wikidata aspects and the talk to prioritize WikiJournals.
* The live demonstration of Wikipedia, Commons and Wikidata went very smoothly, with a range of examples used from science, law, and history topics. [https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/File:2019_IDCC_Live_demo_script.pdf See here for the script of the live demonstration]
* The talk was well-received with questions afterwards about how Wikipedia has changed over the past 18 years.
* I assisted a group of 8 people with signing up for accounts and making their first Wikidata edits during a teabreak.
* The day before the conference, demonstrators were requested to come in to record a mini-video version, to be released alongside the demonstration. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalcurationcentre/sets/72157676777598177 This is available here]. I'm not fully satisfied with how it came out, but it has given me good ideas for an improved version to make.
* It was indicated to me that videos of talk and of the demonstration would also be made available, but as yet only the lighting poster talks have appeared on the website.

;Networking
* APO director (discussed use of Wikis for expert-curated reading lists)
* Melbourne University archivery team
* Thank you to Pru Mitchell for supply of WMAU postcards - I handed out approx 50 to different participants, using them to jot down contact info or URLs relevant to the conversation

===Funds===
All funds spent on single-day conference attendance fee.

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