GLAM-US May 2017

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What have you learned about GLAM-Wiki or OpenGLAM in the last Month?
by Alex Stinson 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Hey all, Romaine will be reminding us soon that its time to write "This Month in GLAM" reports: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom To get you thinking about those, I wanted to throw out a question to get your idea's flowing: What have you learned or makes you optimistic about GLAM-Wiki and OpenGLAM in the last month? Alex -- Alex Stinson GLAM-Wiki Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: http://glamwiki.org

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Wikidata for librarians
by Pine W 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Perhaps of interest: https://coffeecode.net/wikidata-workshop-for-librarians.html Thanks to Lea for the link. This was in the Wikidata Weekly summary. Pine

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Automatic citation lookup now supports ISBNs, thanks to OCLC
by Pine W 12 May '17

12 May '17

Forwarding. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, May 11, 2017 at 1:41 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Automatic citation lookup now supports ISBNs, thanks to OCLC To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hey all, I'm delighted to announce here that you can now use ISBNs to add automatically-generated citations to Wikipedia. This is thanks to a partnership with OCLC, a global non-profit library cooperative, whose WorldCat database of books is the largest in the world. One of the editing features for which we've had the most praise is the tool to generate citations. This tool, started back in 2014, allows you to type in a URL, DOI, or PMCID and have it suggest a filled-in citation. Making it quicker and easier for new and existing editors alike to do the right thing is a key part of our work. However, Wikimedians love our books, and the most-requested feature was to add to this the most common identifier for books, ISBNs. I know that a few wikis built their own custom gadgets to do this, but I felt that we should provide a proper, reliable tool that works on mobile as well as desktop platforms, for all users and in all languages. Over the past while, we agreed a partnership with OCLC to provide this data for editors to use, to make referencing stronger and clearer for our readers around the world. Identifiers for books will help them find further information on topics that catch their interest, using our long-standing BookSources tool and OCLC's WorldCat database. This is now live on all wikis which have Citoid set up. If your wiki doesn't have it, we'd love to help your community out – ask on the talk page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki>. You can read more in the blog post <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/11/wikimedia-oclc-partnership/>, and of course I'd love for you to try it out on a wiki that's configured with it near you. My very big thanks to OCLC, in particularly Merrilee Proffitt, and to my colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation, particularly Marielle Volz, Marko Obrovac, and Jake Orlowitz, for making this possible. Yours, -- James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester at wikimedia.org <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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GLAM + Education Case studies? Where are they?
by Alex Stinson 10 May '17

10 May '17

Hi all, I am the process of drafting a navigational tool for learning about case studies for different kinds of GLAM-Wiki tactics to pair with the digital collections portal I created last fall ( https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Digitization ). The new sub-portal is at: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Sharing_Knowledge . For one of the sections, I would like to profile GLAM + Education projects; I hear about them, but can't find very much documentation: where are these documented for your community? Cheers, Alex -- Alex Stinson GLAM-Wiki Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: http://glamwiki.org

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Fwd: [Commons-l] 3D files on Commons
by Pine W 06 May '17

06 May '17

Forwarding. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:14 AM Subject: [Commons-l] 3D files on Commons To: commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hello, We shared this news on the Commons village pump, but wanted to make sure we caught folks who maybe don't read the discussions there. [0] In 2015 one of the most popular ideas for the Community Wishlist Survey was about supporting the uploading of 3D models on Commons. [1] [2] The Multimedia team at the foundation is writing new software to make this happen with the STL file format. [3] You can see how this feature works on the beta cluster for Commons. [4] [5] [6] [7] Note: Thumbnails might take a bit longer to generate on the beta cluster, and general performance will be a little slower than Commons. The feature is still being worked on, so things will change! Please take a moment to join the discussion on Commons if you haven't. Questions and feedback are welcome. [0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump# Preparing_for_3D_models_on_Commons [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_ Survey/Commons#3D_models_on_Wikimedia_Commons [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132058 [4] https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:1900s_telephone.stl [5] https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File: 1900s_telephone.stl#/media/File:1900s_telephone.stl [6] https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File: Bird_Figure_Nigeria_CNCC_1937.2.stl [7] https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File: Bird_Figure_Nigeria_CNCC_1937.2.stl#/media/File:Bird_Figure_ Nigeria_CNCC_1937.2.stl Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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Wikimedia District of Columbia: New Institutional Partnerships Manager
by Robert Fernandez 04 May '17

04 May '17

Wikimedia District of Columbia is pleased to announce the hiring of our first employee. Ariel Cetrone has joined WMDC as our Institutional Partnerships Manager, where she will plan and facilitate events with our many institutional partners, including cultural, academic, and professional organizations. Her work will help expand our outreach role in DC and surrounding states and maximize the effectiveness of our volunteer time and energy. A native of Philadelphia, Cetrone is a graduate of George Washington University and Drexel University. She previously worked for Historic RittenhouseTown, a Philadelphia nonprofit organization and historic site, and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

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