GLAM September 2012

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A bit of happy press :)
by Lori Phillips 30 Sep '12

30 Sep '12

Hello all, I was encouraged to discover today that Colleen Dilenschneider, an influential blogger, writer, and speaker, included GLAM-Wiki in her recent list, "40 (More) Ways Nonprofits are Engaging Audiences Through Social Media." http://colleendilen.com/2012/09/24/40-more-ways-nonprofit-zoos-aquariums-mu… Further context: Colleen uses these lists in her talks around the world, and they tend to gain legs and make their way into publications all over. Her focus is on PR, marketing, and social media in "ZAMs" (Zoos, Aquariums, Museums). I've always found it important to have a PR professional like Colleen broadcasting our work accurately, and she's been savvy in making sure she understands all the nuance of COI and paid editing in Wikipedia before she dedicates an entire post to us (she has yet to, but includes our work as examples frequently). She's aware of the current COI/ GLAM-Wiki debate, and so I'm all the more appreciative that she included this little bit of positivity for us. Here's the blurb: *34)* *Wikipedians supporting museums.* The GLAM-WIKI project supports > GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives museums) and other institutions who > want to work with Wikimedia to produce open-access, freely-reusable content > for the public. Like the idea behind Wikipedia, the GLAM Wikipedians > themselves are transparent, accessible, and highly-connected as they help > lead institutions into an age of open authority. Proof of their > connectivity? A picture I took of this group during a dinner together at > AAM2012. And that picture needs to make its way onto Commons! Best, Lori -- Lori Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation 703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/

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GLAM & Analytics dashboard
by Lori Phillips 30 Sep '12

30 Sep '12

*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 -- Lori Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation 703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/

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Guidelines on opening cultural data and content
by Rémi Mathis 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

Hello, As part of the OpenGlam network, Wikimédia France and the Open Knowledge Foundation have published an a white paper on “Guidelines on opening cultural data and content”. Back in April and May, WM-Fr and OKF organised two workshops about public domain and cultural content, attended by lawyers, staff of cultural institutions, people from the ministry of Culture, and open content advocatives (see the relevant TMIG [1] [2]) Over the summer, Benjamin Jean (lawyer & free content advocative), Lionel Maurel (lawyer & library curator), Adrienne Alix (WmFr) & Primavera de Filippi (OKF) summarised the workgroup discussions. The white paper is available on <http://www.donneeslibres.info/> Best, Rémi Wikimedia France Chair[3] [1] < https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2012/Contents/Fra… > [2] < https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2012/Contents/Franc… > [3] Thank you to English-speaking Jean-Fred

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Fwd: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Toolserver-l] Future of the toolserver
by Katie Chan 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

If we're going to forward the original email, then let's forward the reply to it from Pavel as well. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Toolserver-l] Future of the toolserver Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:08:22 +0200 From: Pavel Richter <pavel.richter(a)wikimedia.de> Reply-To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Toolserver_Management <toolserver_l(a)wikimedia.de> Just to clarify: As I have stated many time before, Wikimedia Deutschland is committed to run and maintain the Toolserver as long as Wikilabs are not in position to offer the same level of service as the Toolserver. This committment includes the purchase of new hardware, where necessary to keep the servers running. As in the past years, I hope for support by other entities in this project, both financially and with administration of the Toolserver. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Pavel Richter CEO Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tel.: +49 - 30 - 219 158 260 Twitter: @pavel

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Fwd: [Toolserver-l] Future of the toolserver
by Magnus Manske 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

Forwarding this here, as it has direct impact on all GLAM-related tools. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: DaB. <WP(a)daniel.baur4.info> Date: Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:51 PM Subject: [Toolserver-l] Future of the toolserver To: toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hello all, in these days WMDE (the chapter that finance the toolserver) is discussing the budget for the next year (2013); you can find it at [1]. At the moment there is no money for new toolserver-hardware in this budget and the CEO Pavel Richter is unwilling to change this ([2] in german) – because he fears that there will be a Wikilabs in 2014. It is not possible for me to run the toolserver for another year with the current hardware – you all know why. For this reason I will request a change of the budget at the general meeting at November, so there will be a vote about. If this vote should fail (and we get no money for new hardware), I am going to retire from my job as root at 30. December 2012. I'm not longer able to tolerant the behavior of the german chapter and the WMF in matter of the toolserver; I do this for free and for fun, and it is not longer fun. Sincerely, DaB. P.S: If you are in a board of a chapter that gives money to WMDE for the toolserver: Make sure that it will be spend for hardware. [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/2013_annual_plan_draft… [2] meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Deutschland/2013_annual_plan_draft/d… -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885 _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette

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Great "why GLAM-Wiki?" video from MuseumNext
by Lori Phillips 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Hello all, About a year and a half ago I was incredibly inspired by a talk that Koven Smith, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, gave at Ignite Smithsonian. His concept has evolved from "What's the point of the museum website?" to "the Kinetic museum," and essentially validates our work with GLAM-Wiki by saying what we always say, "Use external platforms, go where the people are. [and as one example...] Use Wikipedia." This year, at MuseumNext Barcelona in May, he was even bolder in his urging museums to adopt external platforms, and he has an entire portion of his talk in which he very clearly articulates to museum professionals why they are pretty much crazy to be re-writing the same content on their collections databases over and over, when really they should just be using Wikipedia. The video is here: http://vimeo.com/47589803 I'll note that he's a fast-talking-American, so it may be tough for translations. But here is a transcript of the portion about Wikipedia. It's truly great content for your "why Wikipedia?" questions of GLAM professionals. AND it's coming from a GLAM professional (not us), which is what's so refreshing. Be sure to attribute Koven if you use any of this! (And let me know if you do; he'll be glad to hear it : ). Building on this concept of an ongoing evolutionary construction rather > than growing your own content is looking at communications. > > We need to recognize that museums are part of a content ecosystem now > rather than the totality of that ecosystem. Developing information > resources that compete with Wikipedia is insane. Developing information > resources that compete with other museums is insane-r. There’s no reason > for us to own content that is not unique to us; all it does is weigh us > down and prevent us from moving faster. > So instead of positioning ourselves as an alternative resource to those > information resources that already exist we have to learn how to use them > to our advantage. I can’t imagine that if museums didn’t already exist, > that we would initiate them by saying, “we’re going to be a competing > information resource to Wikipedia, but we’ll be *way* better because > we’ve got the power of scholarship behind us.” That ship has sailed. > Wikipedia is more important as an information resource than any other > single institution. We need to accept that and figure out how to work with > it. > Wikipedia and resources like it are going to adapt to cultural shifts and > interpretation way faster than you are and without you having to expend > those resources. So instead of developing a competing artist biography, > just use Wikipedia’s. That way when an artist dies or changes their working > location, it’s no longer a “somebody has to change that information in the > object record” problem. It’s already been done for you by the Wikipedia > community. And now you don’t have to change anything. > This is one of the reasons why I like the Brooklyn Museum’s WikiLink > project, recognizing that as a fact. It’s a resource that’s out there, it > allows us to get in very deep with content, without actually having to own > all of that process from end to end. > -- Lori Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation 703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/

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GLAM-Wiki US blog
by Lori Phillips 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Hello all, I'm happy to share that GLAM-Wiki US now has a blog! http://blog.us.glamwiki.org/ This is a direct result of feedback that we requested of GLAM professionals on the GLAM-US list, regarding platforms for the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium that would be most useful for busy cultural professionals (and Wikipedians, too.) Thanks to Sara Snyder, specifically, for the suggestion. And also to Mike Peel & Dominic for helping to get the domain all situated. This will be a predominately broadcast-centric platform (rather than promoting discussion.) But it is only the first of a number of things we're developing that will further promote dialogue between Wikipedians and GLAM professionals. For now, there are only informational posts that link out externally to the GLAM:US Portal. In the future, there will be three main types of posts: - Basic information on some of our best practices, including link roundups of resources. (Similar to the Wik-in-Res post.) - Updates and highlights from our ongoing and new partnerships and events, in order to more easily promote collaborations. - Inquiring posts, or prompts for dialogue, that will help shape the US Consortium and global GLAM best practices. This will certainly be a community blog, so if you have a timely & relevant post for the next few weeks please let me know. If you have any suggestions or questions, I'm happy to hear them! Best, Lori -- Lori Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation 703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/

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Small (but fun) Children's Museum donation
by Lori Phillips 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

Hello all, The Children's Museum has been doing a few small Wikimedia donations lately, but the one I'm most excited about is this (small) batch of artifacts from our project *100 Toys (& their Stories) that Define Our Childhood*.[1] We had all the toys professionally photographed for the project, which ended up blowing us all away by going global and garnering 600 story submissions and 21,000 votes in a month's time. The project is not Wikipedia-focused, but I'm glad that at least a handful of these amazing images are able to make their way onto Commons as one small component of the overall 100 Toys project. As I often say, a large portion of objects in our 120,000-object collection are not able to be put on Commons due to copyright and trademark restrictions. This is illustrated in the fact that only 9 objects of the 100 could be released to Commons, but I'm still glad for that, nonetheless: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:100_Toys_Project_Images_from_Th… Anybody up for a few minutes of (fun!) image distribution? : ) Or at least will you admire the beauty of these marbles along with me? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Childrens_Museum_of_Indianapoli… Have a great day and thanks ahead of time if you're able to distribute any images, Lori [1] http://www.childrensmuseum.org/100toys -- Lori Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation 703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/

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Talk at CERN
by Daniel Mietchen 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

Dear all, Chantal of WMCH (in CC) and me are at CERN today to discuss options for collaboration, and it was just decided that I shall give a talk on that there on Wednesday. It will be similar to the one at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/Wikimania_2012/Nati… , and I am collecting notes at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/CERN_2012/Notes . If you - and especially WMFR - have any comments on that, please put them in there. Thanks! Daniel -- http://www.google.com/profiles/daniel.mietchen

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New Wiki in Res resource
by Lori Phillips 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Hello all, I recently had the opportunity to take a professional project management class, and couldn't resist taking the "free time" (free time? what's that?) to apply a basic project management tool to the Wikipedian in Residence model. The result? A "scope diagram" for what a typical Wikipedian in Residence project looks like. Scope Diagrams include all stakeholders in a project (anyone who will be involved in the related tasks), as well as each stakeholder's inputs and outputs for the project. In other words, what each person (or group) receives from the Wiki in Res, and what they provide. This is analog style for now. We're talking sharpies and highlighters and my teacher-like handwriting. Eventually I may type it all up, but no promises any time soon. There is both the actual scope diagram chart and a (hand-written) narrative version that will clarify the arrows for the inputs/outputs. Feel free to be inspired and/or share this with potential GLAMs who are considering a residency. I basically type this out long-form over and over and over in email inquiries. So I figure having a handy chart and talking through it may prove valuable to a few of you. Enjoy: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedian_in_Residence_Scope_Diagra… Lori -- Lori Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation 703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/

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