Hi GLAM-Wiki Folks,
With the cooperation of IFLA, we have been working on white papers. We have
prepared the below email to forward to library communities in your context
to solicit feedback on the draft white papers. Please share with your
partners and community coordinators.
Also if you are on social media, we would welcome sharing of the following:
https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/777923564150325248
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FWikimedia%2Fstatus…>
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/09/19/engaging-libraries-wikipedia/
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.wikimedia.org%2F2016%2F09%2…>
https://www.facebook.com/GLAMWiki/posts/1037706443016172
<https://www.facebook.com/GLAMWiki/posts/1037706443016172?hc_location=ufi>
I hope you get a chance to engage, and that these papers prove useful for
your outreach efforts.
Cheers,
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
Hello all,
As you probably have noticed, in the last few years more and more library
communities are engaging with Wikipedia as a tool for teaching our patrons
effective internet research, but also as contributors of Wikimedia
projects, through projects like Art and Feminism
<http://art.plusfeminism.org/>and the #1lib1ref campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref>.
But these kinds of collaborations, only scratch the surface -- whole
networks of libraries are integrating Wikipedia into their professional
work of sharing knowledge, and using it as a tool for serving their
patrons. Take for example the public libraries in Catalonia: nearly 200
libraries are actively contributing to Wikimedia projects, as an effort to
preserve Catalan language and culture.
Since early 2016, IFLA Headquarters and the Wikipedia Library Team at the
Wikimedia Foundation, have been supporting a group of Wikipedians and
Library experts in writing two white papers on the opportunities for
library and Wikipedia collaboration. Initial drafts of these papers were
presented at the WLIC 2016, and were well received.
We hope to continue to refine these papers, and we need your help to do it:
though the committees that wrote the papers include leading experts on
these collaboration, we know that their are hundreds of leaders in library
and Wikipedia communities who also have valuable experience with these
important partnerships. We hope to revise the current drafts to fully
reflect the global experience of Wikipedia and Library collaborators.
To this end, we invite you to join our open commenting period on the white
papers, that just opened on September 19 and will remain open through
October 31st. Instructions for commenting, are available in the following
Google docs:
-
Opportunities for Public Libraries and Wikipedia
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ysh1N6BT29-rrAGRidMj1i0BHBzcwIms7TUamUb…>
[1]
-
Opportunities for Academic and Research Libraries and Wikipedia
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nrqxK46pqDs6DgSGHtfzAJLjQ94rA-3bgLDa2BZ…>
[2]
Thank you for your time! And please feel free to share the invitation for
comment widely!
Cheers,
Alex Stinson, GLAM-Wiki Strategist, Wikimedia Foundation
Julia Brungs, Policy and Research Officer, IFLA
[1]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ysh1N6BT29-rrAGRidMj1i0BHBzcwIms7TUamUb…
[2]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nrqxK46pqDs6DgSGHtfzAJLjQ94rA-3bgLDa2BZ…
Erfgoed Gelderland is a cooperation for GLAMs in the Dutch province
Gelderland. They stimulate and facilitate cooperation between their members
and are an expertise center for stakeholders in the heritage of Gelderland.
Erfgoed and Wikimedia Nederland are joining forces in a pilot project
focussing on small GLAM-institutions in the Dutch province of Gelderland.
The project aims to give these institutions the knowledge and tools to
contribute (parts of) their digital collections as open data to Wikimedia
projects.
Erfgoed Gelderland is now looking for a Wikipedian-in-Residence (1 year,
part-time) who will train the participating GLAM-institutions in how they
can effectively contribute to Wikimedia projects.
If you want to know more about the project, please read the project
proposal here (in Dutch only):
http://erfgoedgelderland.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Projectplan-Wikipedi…
If you want to know more about the open position, please read the
application here (in Dutch only):
http://erfgoedgelderland.nl/vacature-wikipedian-in-residence/
Regards,
Arne Wossink
Projectleider / Project Manager Wikimedia Nederland
*(Werkdagen: maandag, dinsdag, donderdag / Office hours: Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday)*
Tel. +31 (0)6 11000505
E-mail: wossink(a)wikimedia.nl
*Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:*
Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3
3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht
Perhaps of interest: "...We’re making the latest version of our image
captioning system available as an open source model in TensorFlow."
https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/show-and-tell-
image-captioning-open.html
Pine
There are occasional community discussions about how to preserve Wikipedia
(and hopefully the sister projects) for a very long time even if there are
any of several kinds of global disasters. This archival technology might be
of interest:
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-eternal-5d-storage-history-humankind.html
Quoting from the article: "As a very stable and safe form of portable
memory, the technology could be highly useful for organisations with big
archives, such as national archives, museums and libraries, to preserve
their information and records."
I haven't studied this technology in any depth so I can't endorse it, but
it looks like it might be of interest to archivists, preservationists, and
contingency planners.
Pine
*TL:DR: The Community Engagement department invites you to participate in
the Leadership Development Dialogue now through October 16th [1]*
Hello there,
One of the really valuable, parts of our community, is the growing number
of volunteers who step beyond their comfort zone, and become guides,
mentors, and leaders for other parts of the volunteer community. This act
of emerging, to take on responsibilities that strengthen our community is
widespread, but also something that we need to embrace, refine and improve,
so that we have the capacity to meet our broader mission.
>From now through October 16th, the Community Engagement department invites
you to participate in an online dialogue about just how to describe and
build the leadership capacity. Please invite all who may be interested by
forwarding to your local community mailing lists, and be sure to join us
at: [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/
Leadership_Development_Dialogue
In particular, we need your help:
-
Improving the “Learning Days” and other leadership development programs
supported by the WMF and other organizations
-
Refining the language and concepts we use to describe “leadership” -- in
our initial exploratory engagement of focus groups, we found that the word
“leader” does not translate well across language and cultures.
In behalf of the Community Engagement department, we hope to see you on the
wiki!
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach Coordinator, L&E Team \\
Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_
<https://twitter.com/marianarra_>
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
The next online office hour session of the Wikimedia Language team is
scheduled for next Wednesday, September 21st, 2016 at 13:00 UTC. This
session is going to be an online discussion over Google Hangouts/Youtube
with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the limitation of Google
Hangouts, only a limited number of participation slots are available.
Hence, do please let us know if you would like to join in the Hangout.
This time we will be taking questions from youtube viewers, only on the IRC
channel #wikimedia-office. The channel will be open for interactions during
the session. Questions can also be sent ahead of time to us.
Our last online round-table session was held in June 2016. You can watch
the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rANCUuJRTE8
Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube
session link and do let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you
Runa
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session
# When: September 21, 2016 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20160921T1300)
# Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXgMZ7myEA4 and on IRC
#wikimedia-office (Freenode)
# Agenda:
Updates from the Language team and Q & A.
--
Language Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Forwarding.
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From: Marti Johnson <mjohnson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 4:34 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Open call for Project Grant proposals (Sep
12-October 11)
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation Project Grants program launches its second open
call today, September 12. We will be accepting proposals through October
11 for new ideas to improve Wikimedia projects.
Funds are available to support individuals, groups and organizations to
implement new experiments and proven ideas, whether focused on building a
new tool or gadget, organizing a better process on your wiki, researching
an important issue, coordinating an editathon series or providing other
support for community-building.
Ideas from the current Inspire Campaign on addressing harassment are very
welcome. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire>
Do you have have a good idea, but would like some feedback before
applying? Put it into the IdeaLab, where volunteers and staff can give you
advice and guidance on how to bring it to life. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab> Once your idea is ready,
it can be easily migrated into a grant request.
Marti Johnson and I will also be hosting weekly proposals clinics via
Hangouts for real-time discussions about the Project Grants Open Call.
We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. Dates and
times are as follows:
* Fri, Sep 16, 1400- 1500 UTC
* Tues, Sep 20, 0100 - 0200 UTC
* Wed, Sep 28, 1400 - 1500 UTC
* Tue, Oct 4, 2200 - 2300 UTC
* Tues, Oct 11, 0200 - 0300 UTC
* Tue, Oct 11, 1600 -1700 UTC
Links for Hangouts are available here: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>
We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and
make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into
motion, and submit your proposal between September 12 and October 11! <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Apply>
Please feel free to get in touch with me (mjohnson(a)wikimedia.org) or Alex
Wang (awang(a)wikimedia.org) with questions about getting started with your
project!
Warm regards,
Marti
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Hi, I could do with some quick views to advise a UK GLAM institution
as to how to make part of their digital archives of images "No
copyright known", based on the date of creation of works (a proportion
may have year of publication instead). To make this an easy step for
the GLAM, there needs to be some evidence of why any date chosen is no
risk, or extremely low risk, so that a case could be made to the
institution's management; and lawyers.
I'm aware that Google Books ran into a lot of lawsuits for releasing
book scans a bit too liberally, while at the British Library there was
a very conservative date of 1874 (I think) where everything before
than could be considered public domain as a default.
The tricky part is to choose a generic date that can apply regardless
of the nature of the item digitized, or its country of
creation/publication.
I have created a thread on-wiki at -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#For_an_institution.…
- any links or advice from publications would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Fae
--
faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
I'll suggest to Nemo and Axel that "Immovable cultural heritage"
refers to "real property" or "real estate", i.e. land and buildings.
If so, this might be handled well via Wiki Loves Monuments.
I do know of one GLAM who has such a collection. The Philadelphia Art
Museum owns about a dozen historical buildings in Philadelphia and
about half of them are open to the public. Most of them are in
Fairmount Park and funding to maintain the buildings might go through
either institution, or even the city of Philadelphia itself.
Smallbones
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 15:23:26 +0200
From: Axel Pettersson <axel.pettersson(a)wikimedia.se>
To: GLAM wikimedia <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Cultural Partners
<cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch>
Subject: [GLAM] GLAMs with collections of immovable cultural heritage
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Hi GLAM friends,
(Trying again as the first ping about this didn’t result in any specific
collections or GLAMs.)
Connected Open Heritage[1] keeps moving on, and have so far worked with the
WLM database and the upcoming migration to Wikidata, some batch uploads to
Commons and preparations for visiting governments and authorities.
One thing we still need some help with is to get in touch with GLAMs who
has digitized collections of photos, videos, paintings or drawings, or
possibly scanned books (such as travel diaries) of immovable heritage
sites[2] that could be relevant to the project. It can be either old
connections that you are already in touch with or new GLAMs that you want
to work with.
As we have both work time and developer skills in this project we are happy
to help with both contacting, coordinating and do the technical part
required to get a good cooperation going, as long as you give us some
starting points and places to look.[3] If you already have a good
relationship with a relevant GLAM we can help only with the parts you ask
for, and you can still be the primary contact for the partnership.
Suggestions can either be added to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage/Partners#Suggestions
or sent as an answer here.
Looking forward to working together with you!
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage/
[2]
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/illicit-trafficking-of-cultural…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage/Get_Involved/Contac…
Best regards,
/axel
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Axel Pettersson
Projektledare GLAM/Outreach
Wikimedia Sverige
+46 (0)733 96 55 65
axel.pettersson(a)wikimedia.se
Twitter: @Haxpett <https://twitter.com/#%21/haxpett>
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