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Meetup 14 - Thursday 23 October 2014

Time: 7pm

Location: SA Maritime Museum, Lipson Street, Port Adelaide.

The meeting will be held upstairs in the sailmaker's loft in the Wieman Building (above Sea Witch Images), 117 Lipson Street, opposite the Museum

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

Guests: Sharon Holmes (Port of Adelaide Branch, National Trust of SA), Kevin Jones (SA Maritime Museum), Robyn Ashworth (Course Co-ordinator Environmental Interpretation, UniSA), Gabriella Szondy (Friends of Torrens Island), Mike Weir (PoANT) + possibly a number of others

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Pre-meetup discussions

Bahudhara has met with a number of organisations, including Port of Adelaide Branch of the National Trust (PoANT), Port Adelaide Historical Society, Woodville Historical Society, Port Adelaide Residents Environment Protection Group, which have shown varying levels of interest. He also met last month with the president of the Gawler Local History Group, which operates the Gawler Now and Then wiki.

Other PoANT members have raised the project with the Port Adelaide University of the Third Age, where there is some interest.

The meetup date was changed from Wednesday 22 October to the following evening, to enable SA Maritime Museum director Kevin Jones to attend. The date change was canvassed with AWUG members via email, with no response. Kevin said that the SAMM's efforts are currently being directed towards Adelaidea and the SA History Hub, which have been set up by History SA. (These aren't wikis as such, instead being themed collections of short essays written by experts, with attached blogs for public comment; there is no map interface, such as the Now and Then wikis have.)

At last week's meeting of the PoANT committee, a letter to the CEO of the National Trust of SA was tabled and approved, requesting that he negotiate with Darren Peacock over an appropriate licence for the Port Adelaide Now and Then wiki. Darren has indicated that a cloned empty shell of the wiki could subsequently be hosted and ready by as early as mid-November.

The tentative launch date for the wiki (providing sufficient content has been generated by then) is late January, at the Port Adelaide Library.

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 Meetup 11 in July:

Now and Then Mallala

Now and Then Gawler

Now and Then Willunga

N.B. - there is also an Adelaide Hills wiki with pages on the history of Hahndorf and Mount Barker, with a relatively unsophisticated interface compared to the Now and Then wikis.

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For noting

Summary of Meetup 14

Attendees

Bahudhara, Sharon Holmes and Mike Weir (PoANT), Kevin Jones (Director, SA Maritime Museum)

Apologies

Tullyis, Meredith Blundell (Port Adelaide Library)

Reports and comments

Bahudhara spoke about progress to date on the proposed Port Adelaide Now and Then wiki, followed by a general discussion on how to proceed further.

Kevin Jones mentioned resources already available on the Museum's website, which could provide lists of topics suitable for further elaboration on the wiki.

Outcomes

Sharon Holmes is to follow up with her contacts at the University of the third Age and the Vitalstatistix theatre company regarding possible involvement by their members.

Bahudhara is to write up an overview of the project for WP; to email links to the WP meetup and resource pages to the participants; and to liaise with Darren Peacock over the actual cloning and setting up of the wiki shell.