Right step in the right direction.. I'm very excited about the follow up
steps! Thanks Jan for sharing and everyone for doing the work.
On Thursday, 5 December 2019, Jan Dittrich <jan.dittrich(a)wikimedia.de
wrote:
Hello List,
I am happy to share our report on Wikidata use in cultural institutions
with you.
Thanks to our participants and everyone else who
helped with this!
Wikidata attracts attention and users from many institutions from the
cultural
sector – and the Wikidata Team wants to support their needs.
However, while we did exchange and learned a lot from cultural institutions
in the past, we did not have a written account based on research on
cultural institutions’ needs which helps to spread knowledge and
understanding for these users. This is why the UX Team of Wikimedia Germany
did such research. We now can share our Research Report on “Wikidata Use in
Cultural Institutions“.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Research_Report_%E2%80%93_Use_of_Wi…
From June-September 2019, my colleagues and me talked
to 16 users who
worked at different cultural (“GLAM”) institutions to find out about
“How
and why do people in cultural institutions use Wikidata?” and thus learn
more about participants’ motivations, activities and problems.
> In the report, we describe…
> - The advantages participants saw in sharing data
> - Problems of modeling
> - How people come to Wikidata via Wikimedia Commons
> …and much more
> The things we found out probably not new to
some of you. Rather than
uncovering surprising results, the report aims to describe workflows and
motivations and to serve as a point of reference. This can be particularly
useful for people who had no previous exposure Wikidata and/or GLAM
institutions’ work and its context.
> The research thus focussed on describing
motivations, activities and
problems. While the data gathering was often like a conversation, the
research methods were based on qualitative research methods and design
ethnography – thus they supplement our other ways of learning from the
community, like direct personal exchange or interacting on talk pages.
> We hope that the report is useful and
interesting for you. Many thanks to
all the people who helped in creating the report, particularly the
participants from GLAM institutions who showed and explained to us how they
use Wikidata.
> Kind Regards,
> Jan
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