GLAM May 2017

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Introducing the Wikimedia Resource Center
by Maria Cruz 29 Jul '17

29 Jul '17

Hi all, As we have stated in our annual plan [1], “currently, community members must search many pages and places to stay informed about Foundation activities and resources.” We have worked in the past two quarters to create a single point of entry. We call it the Wikimedia Resource Center, and its alpha version is now live on Meta Wikimedia: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Resource_Center As the movement expands to include more affiliates and more programmatic activities every year, newer Wikimedians are faced with lack of experience in the movement and its various channels for requesting support. In order to expand Wikimedia communities’ efforts, we want to provide easy access to resources that support their very important work. The [[m:Wikimedia Resource Center]] is a hub designed in response to this issue: it is intended to evolve into a single point of entry for Wikimedians all over the world to the variety of resources and types of staff support they may need to develop new initiatives or also expand existing ones. This version of the Resource Center is only the beginning. For phase two of the project, we will enable volunteer Wikimedians to add resources developed by other individuals or organizations to the Wikimedia Resource Center, and in phase three, the Wikimedia Resource Center will include features to better connect Wikimedians to other Wikimedians that can support them. We want to hear what you think about this prototype and our plans for it! If you have comments about the Wikimedia Resource Center, you can submit your feedback publicly, on the Talk Page, or privately, via a survey hosted by a third party, that shouldn’t take you more than 4 minutes to complete. A feedback button is on the top right corner on every page of the hub. Looking forward to more collaborations! Best, María [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/… -- María Cruz Communications and Outreach Project Manager, Community Engagement

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CLs are hiring...
by Erica Litrenta 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

Hey everyone, apologies for the cross-posting, we're just too excited: we're looking for a new member for our team [0], who'll dive right away in the promising Structured Data project. [1] Is our future colleague hiding among the tech ambassadors, translators, GLAM people, community members we usually work with? We look forward to finding out soon. So please, check the full job description [2], apply, or tell/recommend anyone who you think may be a good fit. For any questions, please contact me personally (not here). Thanks! Elitre (WMF) Senior Community Liaison, Technical Collaboration [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Liaisons [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data [2] https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/610643?gh_src=o3gjf21#.WMGV0Rih…

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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 31 May '17

31 May '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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Images of Syria from the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen on Wikimedia Commons
by Arne Wossink 30 May '17

30 May '17

(English below) Fotocollectie over Syrië op Wikimedia Commons Syrië is al jarenlang het toneel van een bloedige burgeroorlog waarin al honderdduizenden doden vielen, miljoenen mensen zijn gevlucht en hele steden zijn verwoest. De recent aan Wikimedia Commons gedoneerde foto’s uit de collectie van het Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen laten een ander beeld zien. Deze foto’s, voor een groot deel gemaakt in de jaren ‘80, tonen mensen die bezig zijn met hun dagelijkse werk, straatbeelden van steden die inmiddels door oorlog verwoest zijn, en kunst- en andere objecten uit de collectie van het museum. Juist het historische karakter van de foto’s maakt deze collectie waardevol voor Wikimedia Commons. De upload bestaat uit 352 foto’s en kan hier <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_of_Syria_from_Nationaal_…> geraadpleegd worden. De upload valt samen met een fototentoonstelling in het NMvW over Aleppo <https://tropenmuseum.nl/nl/tentoonstelling-Aleppo?_ga=2.114503566.822778666…> . Photos of Syria on Wikimedia Commons For years, Syria has been the scene of a bloody civil war resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, and the destruction of entire cities. The recent image donation by the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (the National Museum of World Cultures) in the Netherlands shows another Syria. Many of these photos were taken in the 1980s and show scenes of daily life and images and cities not yet devestated by war. Other images show objects from the collection of the museum. Together, they form a valuable resource on Syria for the various Wikimedia projects. The upload consists of 352 photos in total and can be accessed here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_of_Syria_from_Nationaal_…>. It coincides with a photo exhibition in the NMvW on Aleppo <https://tropenmuseum.nl/en/exhibition/aleppo-2017>. Kind 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

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Benefits of providing metadata
by Arne Wossink 22 May '17

22 May '17

Hi all, As best practice we usually encourage GLAMs to provide as many metadata as possible for media donations. However, providing these metadata and "wikifying" them (for examply as part of an upload using Pattypan) can be quite a bit of work, either for a Wikimedian or a GLAM volunteer/staff member. Do we have any case studies outlining immediate benefits of providing more metadata? For example, does providing more metadata lead to better uptake of images in articles on WP? Best 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

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Open GLAM platform at CC?
by scann 17 May '17

17 May '17

Hello everyone, This email is to let you know some of the outcomes of CC's Global Summit (held in April in Toronto). As some of you may know, Creative Commons is launching this year a new strategy to grow the community and also to be more effective in helping institutions to release their content. As part of these efforts, we had a session over "An Open GLAM platform" for CC in the Summit. The notes and first dfrat of how this platform could work in the network are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19hFvtDFPZU-FHWmnXaLX5TP9eR7h_Iou-6Cc4Wl… Alex has been providing some comments, but I think that it would be quite useful from some of the folks that are here also to make any comments, suggestions, wether in the doc or contacting me personally. And for those of you who are interested, you can join us next Monday (May 22th) to a call that we'll be having at 12 pm UTC-3 here: https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/qtnvedissfem5m5ktgrbxabb7ie to discuss how to move forward this platform. Your comments and attendance are most welcome! Best, Scann

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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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This Month in GLAM: April 2017
by The 'This Month in GLAM' team 11 May '17

11 May '17

*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives and *M*useums. You can find more information on the project at glamwiki.org. *This Month in GLAM – Issue IV, Volume VII – April 2017* ------------------------------ Argentina report: End of contest, new heritaged donated and digitizing workshop http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Arge… Basque Country report: Students working on literature with new Wikipedian in Residence http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Basq… Belgium report: Brussels writing weeks; Dutch Language Union workshop; Civic Lab Brussels start; Edit-a-thon Leuven http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Belg… Brazil report: Wikimedia Conference, gender and International collaboration http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Braz… Germany report: You may only harvest after putting a grain http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Germ… Ghana report: GLAM Ghana duly launched http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Ghan… Italy report: Open Data for Cultural Heritage http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Ital… Macedonia report: 12 Peaks hiking challenge http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Mace… Netherlands report: The Netherlands and the World: Photo hunt Chinsurah; Photohunt public library Tilburg; Wikipedian in Residence for UNESCO's Memory of the World programme in the Netherlands; Picture books from Koninklijke Bibliotheek http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Neth… Spain report: Management and dissemination of cultural heritage http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Spai… Sweden report: GLAM-EduWiki collaboration awarded Pedagogy Award of the year at Swedish museums; Connected Open Heritage http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Swed… UK report: Bio-Medical History Residences http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/UK_r… USA report: New connections at the Library of Congress and Smithsonian http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/USA_… Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Wiki… Wikidata report: Federation and new datatypes http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Wiki… WMF GLAM report: DPLAFest and Beyond http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/WMF_… Calendar: May's GLAM events http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Contents/Even… ------------------------------ About *This Month in GLAM* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/About Single page view http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2017/Single Twitter http://twitter.com/ThisMonthinGLAM Add your story / Work on the next edition http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom -- The *This Month in GLAM* team http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter

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GLAM + Education Case studies? Where are they?
by Alex Stinson 09 May '17

09 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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