Wikimedia Australia would like to encourage thw Wikimedia GLAM community
help improve National Library of Australia's resource Trove.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trove
Dear Trove Redesign Community of Practice members,
>
> It’s been a little while since we were all last in touch – but a great
> deal of Trove Redesign-related planning has been happening in the meantime.
> I’d like to give you a quick update, and ask for your help in sharing some
> news.
>
> From today, we’ll begin asking prospective and existing Trove users if
> they’d like to be involved in online or in-person testing, and sharing
> feedback on Trove. The activities will take place over the next 6-8 months,
> and volunteers may be invited to participate once, or several times, during
> this period. As Community of Practice members, we will be sending you
> requests for more specialised input, but you are also welcome to
> participate in these more general activities.
>
> The campaign will kick off with a Facebook post in which we encourage
> followers to sign up and share the link – and we’ll continue to share this
> information on a regular basis, so recruitment will be ongoing.
>
> The link to share is: https://confirmsubscription.co
> m/h/i/D1107F9505667111
> <https://confirmsubscription.com/h/i/D1107F9505667111>
> There’s also a short web page for more context here:
> http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/keeping-up-to-date
> <http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/keeping-up-to-date>
> Please feel free to share widely – we’re seeking volunteers of all ages
> and backgrounds, including people who may not have used Trove before.
> Please let me know if you’d like any more details.
>
> I’ll be sending another email update soon, as there’s more information to
> share on upcoming testing and feedback opportunities that are specific to
> the Community of Practice.
>
> Kind regards,
> Cheney
>
>
> *Cheney Brew*Trove Digital Communications Officer | National Library of
> Australia
> (02) 6262 1200 | cbrew(a)nla.gov.au | @TroveAustralia
> <https://www.twitter.com/TroveAustralia>
>
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Reflections on Environmental Responsibility after Roe 8*, UWAP, 2017. Order
here
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Forwarding some good news.
Pine
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From: Robert Fernandez <wikigamaliel(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 7:13 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] Wikimedia DC: Knight Prototype Fund support for the
Wiki Art Depiction Explorer project
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Discussion
list for the Wikidata project." <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, The Wikipedia Library User Group Google
Group <WikiLibraryUG(a)googlegroups.com>
Wikimedia District of Columbia is proud to be the recipient of $50,000 in
support from the Knight Prototype Fund, an initiative of the John S. and
James L. Knight Foundation. Wikimedia DC will collaborate with the
Smithsonian Institution on a project called the "Wiki Art Depiction
Explorer", an effort to create an interface for museum visitors and other
art enthusiasts to crowdsource metadata about visual depictions in museum
artworks. Making this data more accurate and robust will allow further and
deeper discovery of these works by anyone in the world.
The project was created by three longtime Wikimedia DC volunteers: Andrew
Lih, author of The Wikipedia Revolution, Effie Kapsalis, Chief of Content &
Communications Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, and Robert
Fernandez, member of the board of directors of Wikimedia DC. Andrew Lih
is currently in South Africa for Wikimania and looks forward to talking to
other Wikimedia volunteers about this project.
The aim of the Knight Prototype Fund is to support the development of
innovative ideas to use technology to engage people with the arts and
cultural institutions. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has
previously supported organizations and projects related to Wikimedia,
including the Wikimedia Foundation.
For the announcement from the Knight Foundation, see
https://knightfoundation.org/press/releases/knight-prototype-fund-awards-
projects-that-explore-avenues-for-connecting-people-with-
the-arts-through-tech
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Hi All,
I am really excited to share with you the opening of a new job working
within the Programs Team at the Wikimedia Foundation: a Program Officer
focused on GLAM and Underrepresented Heritage.
As part of orienting our team to better support the Wikimedia Movement
direction, we hope this role can help us to better support tactics and
strategies that are becoming important among emerging communities wanting
to get involved in GLAM programs -- including, for example, leveraging
digitization, WikiSource and Wiki Loves type events to document
marginalized knowledge. They will be working closely with our existing GLAM
team, including Alex Stinson and Sandra Fauconnier, to document and expand
the impact of GLAM partnership in the movement, and to help us advance the
larger Equity and Infrastructure goals of the movement direction.
We also hope that this role helps our team build increased depth of
experience with Wikimedia communities outside of North America and Europe,
where existing GLAM communities have a strong community of practice and
from which Sandra and Alex (and Ben, the Programs team director) have deep
backgrounds.
If you know someone who is enthusiastic about or has deep experience
facilitating GLAM-Wiki or similar community initiatives, please share the
job announcement with them:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1236692
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:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
For those of you attending the GLAM-Wiki Conference in the fall, this might
be a good opportunity to do multiple conferences.
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From: Sofia Zapounidou <szapoun(a)lib.auth.gr>
Date: Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 9:01 PM
Subject: [OpenGLAM] FINAL C4P-SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for
CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATIONS
To: catsmail(a)infoserv.inist.fr, Bibliographic Framework Transition
Initiative Forum <BIBFRAME(a)listserv.loc.gov>, "EUROPEANA-TECH(a)LIST.ECOMPASS.
NL" <EUROPEANA-TECH(a)list.ecompass.nl>, lod-lam(a)googlegroups.com,
open-glam(a)lists.okfn.org, DC-LIBRARIES(a)jiscmail.ac.uk
Cc: Michalis Sfakakis <sfakakis(a)ionio.gr>, boudouri(a)ionio.gr
FINAL CALL for Papers!
Apologies for cross-posting
------------------------------
<http://www.ionio.gr/labs/dbis/mtsr2018/>
SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS &
APPLICATIONS <http://www.ionio.gr/labs/dbis/mtsr2018/>
Part of the 12th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics
Research (MTSR 2018) <http://www.mtsr-conf.org/>, October 23 – 26 2018,
Limassol, Cyprus.
NEW Submission deadline: JULY 1st, 2018
Proceedings will be published in Springer CCIS series
<https://www.springer.com/series/7899>
AIM AND SCOPE
Cultural Heritage collections are essential knowledge infrastructures that
provide a solid representation of the historical background of human
communities. These knowledge infrastructures are constructed from and
integrate cultural information derived from diverse memory institutions, mainly
libraries, archives and museums. Each individual community has spent a lot
of effort in order to develop, support and promote its own systems, tools
and metadata for the management of cultural information, mainly related to
its particular resources and use.
In this framework, the management of the cultural information has to deal
with challenges related to (i) metadata modeling, specification,
standardization, extraction, (semantic) enrichment, mapping, integration,
effective use, and evaluation, (ii) knowledge representation as
conceptualization
to provide the context for unambiguously interpreting metadata, and (iii)
information integration from different contexts for the provision of
integrated access, reuse and advanced services to users.
At the same time, there are also inter-domain efforts targeted to
semantically align data (research data, educational data, public sector
information etc.) to cultural information. New challenges are also emerged
from the need to incorporate cultural information into the new publication
paradigms, where a variety of resources (data, metadata, processes,
results, etc) are linked and integrated, providing better shareability and
reusability. Currently, Linked (Open) Data, as part of the Semantic Web
Technology, is having a major role in modernizing cultural heritage
collections. Providing to users the possibility to re-use and integrate
data into their own systems is currently more than a need, given that
transparency and access to information is a prerequisite. A critical factor
to the effectiveness of many aspects of all the above efforts is the
quality of metadata, as interpreted by its context and use and evaluated by
the proper measures and methods. Many institutions and aggregate
infrastructures are dealing with the poor quality of metadata that
inevitably results in poor integration, search and reuse, while their
enrichment, in terms of contextualization, co-referencing, alignment, etc,
is really challenging.
The aim of this Special Track is to maintain a dialogue where researchers
and practitioners working on all the aspects of the cultural information
will come together and exchange ideas about open issues at all stages of
the cultural heritage information life cycle. The track also welcomes works
related to semantics and applications for new approaches to cultural
information publication and sharing, as well as to interlinking to other
datasets published in the Semantic Web universe.
TOPICS
The papers in this special track should be original and of high quality,
addressing issues in areas
such as:
* Cultural Heritage metadata models, standards, ontologies, knowledge
organization and representation systems
* Cultural Heritage information integration, interoperability and mappings
* Automated extraction of metadata, entities, and patterns from Cultural
Heritage resources
* Metadata manual or automated (Semantic) enrichment and search
* Metadata quality metrics, tools and services
* Linked Open Data approaches in the Cultural Heritage domain
* Publication, linking and citation of Cultural Heritage information and
resources
* Large volume content management
* 3D models-indexing, storage and retrieval approaches
* Infrastructures for sharing content
* Digital Curation workflows and models
* Provenance and preservation metadata for Cultural Heritage digital
resources
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages).
Submitted papers have to follow the LNCS proceedings formatting style and
guidelines <http://www.mtsr-conf.org/index.php/paper-submission>.
The submitted papers will undergo the same peer review as the submissions
for MTSR 2018 and accepted contributions will be published in the MTSR 2018
proceedings (Springer CCIS series <https://www.springer.com/series/7899>).
Authors of accepted papers will be asked to register to the Conference and
present their work.
Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended and revised
versions of their papers for possible publication in selected international
journals, including the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and
Ontologies (Inderscience), and Program (Emerald).
More information on submission can be found at the MTSR 2018 call for
papers web page <http://www.mtsr-conf.org/index.php/call-for-papers>.
IMPORTANT DATES
JULY 1st, 2018: Submission deadline
July 27th, 2018: Notification of Acceptance/rejection
August 24th, 2018: Camera-ready papers due
October 23rd – October 26th, 2018: Conference at Cyprus University of
Technology, Limassol, Cyprus
SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS
* Michalis Sfakakis, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian
University, Corfu, Greece (sfakakis(a)ionio.gr)
* Lina Bountouri, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian
University, Corfu, Greece and NATO HQ, Brussels, Belgium (boudouri(a)ionio.gr,
linabountouri(a)gmail.com)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-- Trond Aalberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),
Norway
-- Karin Bredenberg, The National Archives of Sweden, Sweden
-- Enrico Fransesconi, EU Publications Office, Luxembourg, and Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche, Firenze, Italy
-- Manolis Gergatsoulis, Ionian University, Greece
-- Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
-- Sarantos Kapidakis, Ionian University, Greece
-- Peter McKinney, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o
Aotearoa, New Zealand
-- Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University and Digital Curation Unit,
IMIS, Athena RC, Greece
-- Chrisa Tsinaraki, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Italy
-- Andreas Vlachidis, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science,
University of South Wales, UK
-- Katherine Wisser, Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
Simmons College, USA
-- Maja Žumer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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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:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hi everyone!
This month, we warmly invite you to take part in a community
consultation on Wikimedia Commons, to list the basic properties that
media files will need for structured data.
Some explanation here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
And you can leave your input on the talk page:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data/Get_involve…
Please take a look, as this is an important opportunity to make sure
that basic properties for GLAM files will be taken into account! We have
already collected some examples of 'GLAM-ish files': a (photographed) 3D
object, a map, an engraving, a digitized film, the interior of a
building, and a photo related to performing arts - but you are
encouraged to add more examples to the mix! For instance, digitized
books and manuscripts are not included yet...
Thank you - and see you on wiki! :-)
Cheers, Sandra
ps. For those attending Wikimania and its pre-conference: we will also
collect input during the hackathon.
Dear Wikimedians,
We are closing the application form for Working Group members later
today.[1] Please consider applying, if you are interested in strategic
conversations about movement structures in thematic areas like roles
and responsibilities, revenue streams, resource allocation,
partnerships, capacity building, advocacy, technology and product,
diversity or community health. We have received more than 100
applications by now and are looking for more!
I would like to encourage you to also consider applying even if you
have not contributed to movement strategy conversations before or feel
that you might lack experience or expertise to contribute. Your
perspective might still enrich the discussions and we would like to
see a broad diversity of voices in the conversations, from each corner
of the movement.
We have heard a lot of feedback regarding 5 hours per week that we
expect to be the average time investment for members of the Working
Group. Time investment will vary depending on the week and progress:
there will possibly be weeks with little to do (e.g. reading a
one-pager), but there will also be weeks where members will need to
read, discuss, design or review research tasks, agree, and communicate
with each other and with other groups, have online-meetings or will
attend in person events, write and review documents and emails etc. It
will all also depend on how the working group decides to work
together, and on the members and their individual work and
conversations styles. Working groups will be supported according to
their needs, for example in terms of facilitation, administration and
translation.
If you think you can only invest 2-3 hours, but bring a unique set of
experiences or background, please also consider applying! We will take
a variety of criteria into account when selecting the members together
with our Steering Committee.
Next steps:
Selection of Working Group members will happen in the first half of
July. The minimum number of members for working groups to be
established is 6. That means, we might start with a smaller Working
Group, then map the gaps in terms of diversity, representation and
expertise and identify profiles of members that we need to bring into
the group. Recruiting and selection of additional members will not
only happen in July, but also at later stages in the process,
depending on the needs the Core Team and the Working Groups identify.
If you are interested in applying but still have doubts, please reach
out to Kaarel or me directly. We will work with you all on
clarification.
All the best,
Nicole
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 at 03:24, Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
>
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> Following up on Katherine’s email from last week[1], we are today
> opening the call for Working Group members for 9 Thematic Areas (yes,
> we added one more!).
>
> == Working Group members ==
> The Working Groups will map the present situation of their Thematic
> Area, the obstacles and opportunities, as well as needed changes to
> advance our movement in our strategic direction. They will identify
> possible strategies for making these changes and develop concrete
> recommendations for the movement on how to ratify and implement
> them.[2]
>
> Working Group members will need to be able to invest a minimum of 5
> hours per week, but that time might vary depending on the workflow
> that each group agrees upon. Members of the Working Groups are
> expected to act in the interest of the movement, not in the interest
> of their own organization or community.
>
> == Selection of members ==
> We are looking for a maximum of 15 members for each of the 9 groups.
> For best results we will need a diverse set of members from across the
> movement. We have developed a set of criteria, to ensure the necessary
> expertise, diversity, and representation.[3] We will assemble a
> Steering Committee to decide upon membership of the Working Groups in
> close coordination with the Core Strategy Team.[4]
>
> == Apply to become a working group member ==
> We encourage everyone with an interest in the strategic conversations
> to apply for becoming a Working Group member in their topic of
> expertise. We recommend that movement organizations and groups create
> internal processes for the selection of their candidates to avoid
> multiple, competing applications.
>
> The call will be open until June 25, 2018. ***Please apply via this
> application form.[5]*** To prepare your application, you can consult
> the overview of the questions asked in the form on Meta.[6]
>
> == Next steps ==
> We expect to be able to announce the Working Group members in the
> second week of July, so that the working groups can be assembled,
> onboarded and ready to start working before Wikimania. The first step
> for the groups will be to agree upon their set-up and scope of work.
> At Wikimania, we plan to convene the attending Working Group members
> in the Strategy Space to discuss and refine their road to the
> recommendations and ensure exchange between the groups.[7]
>
> We invite you all to familiarize yourselves with the existing
> documentation of the Working Group(s) of your interest,[8] add
> comments, additional input or share your concerns via talk pages Your
> comments will be then be taken into consideration by the respective
> Working Groups.
>
> We are looking forward to working and having these long-awaited
> conversations with many of you!
>
> In the name of the Strategy Core Team,
> Nicole
>
> [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-June/090417.html
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
> [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
> [5] https://goo.gl/forms/zVElm0hLT9eZvqwF3
> [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
> [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
> [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
--
Nicole Ebber
Adviser International Relations
Program Manager Wikimedia Movement Strategy
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.
V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig
anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/029/42207.