Forwarding this here, as it has direct impact on all GLAM-related tools.
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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/
FYI: Instagram photos can now have Creative Commons license:
http://i-am-cc.org/
Cheers,
Katie
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Board member, Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org
@wikimediadc / @wikimania2012
Hello all,
The Mid-Year Report for the position of US Cultural Partnerships'
Coordinator is now available. >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Mid-Year_Report
This includes Highlights of the past months, details on the GLAM-Wiki US
Consortium, Challenges, and Implications.
I'm happy to hear your thoughts!
Best,
Lori
*Out of necessity, this will be highly cross-posted. So bear with me.*
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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/
Hi list,
I'm happy to announce our October 11th & 12th event, Economies of the Commons 3 – Sustainable Futures for Digital Archives. I'm guessing that this 2-day conference is very relevant to some of our European GLAM enthusiasts.
Economies of the Commons 3 is a conference marking the end of a huge Dutch digitisation project: Images for the Future. It combines the lessons learned of digitising and making available of Dutch culture heritage.
Images for the Future funded projects that were very helpful for Wikimedia. Openimages.eu for example makes video's available under an open license and is good for about 10% of the videos on Wikimedia Commons. The Dutch National Archive made ~150.000 images available to Wikimedia from a Dutch news agency. Opencultuurdata.nl is helping a lot of heritage institutions opening up content and metadata and to date have made several hundreds of thousands media items publicly available under Wikimedia Commons compatible licenses.
Please allow me to give you some more information from the conference website:
> On 11 & 12 October 2012, the Images for the Future consortium organizes the conference Economies of the Commons 3 – Sustainable Futures for Digital Archives in the brand new venue of EYE Film Institute Netherlands in Amsterdam. This third edition of the ‘eCommons’ international conference serves all who look for visionary, theoretical and hands-on practical know how on the current challenges and the future of archives. It will be the most extensive edition yet with extraordinary keynotes (e.g. David Bollier, Kate Theimer, Martin Berendse), impressive presentations and speakers (e.g. Tony Ageh, Marco Rendina, William Uricchio), hands-on workshops and plenty of networking during the day- and evening programs.
> The conference will explore the lessons learned in the Images for the Future project, and will examine new models for digital and on-line rich media collections as active and open public resources.
> For tickets (€75 early bird, €100 regular), the program and more information: www.ecommons.eu
Cheers,
Maarten
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