*Cross-posting to Cultural Partners, but please reply to the public GLAM
list, not cultural partners. Thanks!*
Hello all,
In following through on a request from attendees at GLAMcamp, I wanted to
give just a brief/general update on the WMF Analytics Team's plans for an
Analytics dashboard. At GLAMcamp it was stated that this is some "super
secret" thing that no one knows about, which surprised me. It's in no way
super secret, and you can read all about what they're up to here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics
I also encourage anyone who is interested in staying in the loop to join
the analytics mailing list. A link can be found at the top of the above
linked page.
I recently had a call with Diederik van Liere of the Analytics Team. If you
have any specific questions or suggestions for him, feel free to reach out
(it's his job : ). dvanliere(a)wikimedia.org (But I'd say to do this after
first reading through the very informative page above.)
So I'm good at understanding pretty well the technical things people are
talking about when they're explaining them nice and clearly to me, as
Diederik did. But I'm very bad at rearticulating such a conversation back
out to other people. So I'm just going to sort of type up my notes and you
all can make sense of them. They're along these lines:
- There will not be a specific GLAM analytics tool built by WMF, but the
dashboard they are creating is intended to be able to be useful for anyone,
GLAM folks included. They are aiming to have this complete by summer of
next year.
- They would like to be aware of the current GLAM processes so that they
can connect better to what they're already doing with their work. Mainly,
it's useful for them to know how to identify a GLAM-specific media file. We
already have some systems in place for this, but it'd be worthwhile to
follow up on if what are current file-naming standard is is best for what
they're doing.
- Other scribbles I wrote down that you can make sense of yourself:
- Cluster of reader data
- Self service data platform. Provides tools to do it yourself / curate
data.
- They will tag data for you.
- Provide data in a clean and raw way. No visualization.
- Requests are pretty generic: geography, device, re-use
- I have shared the most pertinent GLAM-related Commons pages with
Diederik, which he had not yet seen. He's also involved in at least a
minimal capacity with the Europeana Toolset project so I hope that means
things won't fall through the cracks between the two.
- I also have a Google Doc that's not fit for public consumption where I
compiled user cases and rationales for GLAM-specific needs in an analytics
dashboard, based on a meeting I had with Rob Stein of the Indianapolis
Museum of Art. If you're interested in helping me to improve this document
and make it suitable to be placed on-wiki, please let me know.
*Action step*: I think we should create a single page, be it on meta,
outreach, or mediawiki, where we compile all of the useful links, needs,
and suggestions for the Analytics Team. They can then take from that what
they can. But centralizing the information is key. This could include the
above Google Doc I mention, links to our current guides and partnerships
lists on Commons, info on the Europeana Toolset Project, and additional
suggestions we may have. I'd be appreciative to hear if someone, who is
more technically inclined than myself (and that doesn't take much) is
willing to take this on.
Hope that helps, and thanks for your patience as I attempt to faciliate
this topic which is far out of my comfort zone.
Lori
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Lori Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
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