User:PatHadley

I’m Pat Hadley and I’m interested in sharing my passion for knowledge about culture and the past. I want to find the most exciting ways of telling brilliant stories about fascinating stuff. I feel most at home with with developers, artists, media people and GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) folk.

I’m adamant that we should be democratising and opening up access to cultural material and knowledge. I’m interested in community engagement, audience development and using culture for positive social change.

I'm a Wikimedia UK accredited trainer for communities and organisations.

I'm the Digital Communications officer at SPAB and still vaguely involved in GLAMwiki work as a volunteer. I always work hard to avoid any COI issues but am happy to discuss any edits and defer to the community in case of issues.
Formerly, I was the Open Collections Developer at York Museums Trust, UK: running a copyright review of the collection in order to get more of it open licensed!
This role followed on from a Wikimedia UK collaboration: Wikimedia GLAM Yorkshire Network Project.

Userboxes This user contributes content related to York Museums Trust through their GLAMwiki partnership click for more This user is a GLAM Ambassador. Member of Wikimedia UK This user participates in WikiProject Archaeology. This user is a participant in WikiProject Yorkshire. This user believes in the right of every human being to have access to Wikipedia. This user is proud to be a Wikipedian. This user has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals. BSc This user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Archaeology. MA This user has a Master of Arts degree in Mesolithic studies.

In my own time I'm mostly over on Commons working on collections from other GLAMs. I also work on WikiProject Archaeology. I focus on organisation, categorisation and standardisation: the hope is that a broad approach will improve the whole project.