Dear Cultural Partners and Commons-l,
Day 2 of GLAMcamp is now underway at the New York Public Library :-) You can see the event homepage here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMcamp_NYC, the etherpad for day 1's discussion here: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/GLAMcampNYC and Sumana put out a quick WMF blogpost last night: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/05/20/glamcampnyc-help-us-make-mass-uploads-easier/
If you would like to follow along/join today you can see today's etherpad here http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/GLAMcampNYCsat and all social media stuff is on the #GLAMWIKI hashtag. There are quite a few of us here so feel free to ping us individually if you would like more info http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMcamp_NYC#Attending
Today, Saturday, We are currently working on two main areas:
1) Data Ingestion
You can join the work on this at http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/GLAMcampNYC-ut
The most requested technology feature in cultural outreach for a long time has been to improve the way that we do batch upload/mass-multimedia uploads to Commons. It became clear yesterday that the problem isn't actually the "upload" part of that, it's actually more about all the information that must go with the files - hence the title "data ingestion".
2) Documentation
You can join the work on this at http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/GLAMcampNYC-POE
Point of Entry - when Cultural Sector people come to our wikis. what do they see? who do we direct them to talk to?
One of yesterday's main outcomes was to re-jig the "GLAM ambassador"
concept to make it sound less exclusive/hierarchical but instead to
emphasis that it's more about being a "first contact" - which in some cases will be a chapter, sometimes will be an individual. See what we've got so far at http://glamwiki.org/
FAQ/how-to - All the content that is internal/wikimedian-facing is now behind and the content that is GLAM-facing will be up front. We're also better integrating the OutreachWiki GLAM portal with the Wikipedia(s) equivalent pages (especially http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advice_for_the_cultural_sector ). We're revamping the way we create/collate/share all of the case studies that we have but currently don't showcase very well.
Later on today we'll be talking about how to improve the way we generate/share Metrics (to show GLAMs how their content is being used) as also looking at creating a "index" to be able to explain what a "free-culture-friendly" cultural institution does a) so we can support/promote the good ones, and b) prioritise which we might like to talk to next.
Sincerely,
-Liam Wyatt / Wittylama
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata