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