Hi all,
*Tldr: *I published a series of recommendations for creating Wikimedian in
Residence positions, and would like your feedback at:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/Creating_a_Wiki…
The long version:
As part of our continued support of the GLAM-Wiki community, we have been
getting an increasing number of requests to the Wikimedia Foundation GLAM
team from Wikimedia organizers, affiliates, and partner institutions about
“how to create or get Wikimedian in Residence positions”. As you are
probably familiar, Wikimedian in Residence positions are very effective at
expanding the impact of partnerships with GLAMs and other institutions, and
are very successful at expanding the ability for institutions to
collaborate with the Wikimedia community.
During the last half a year, I interviewed a dozen folks involved in
creating Wikimedian in Residence positions at affiliates, as independent
organizers in the movement, and at institutions independent of Wikimedia
organizers to collect their best thoughts and advice on how to create these
roles. Additionally, I drew on documentation created by Wikimedia UK in
their evaluation of the WIR program in the UK, the experience of advising
communities creating residencies and as part of WMF grants programs, and
other documentation from places like the Blog and This Month in GLAM.
The result is a recommendation on how to create these roles:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/Creating_a_Wiki…
I would like to start sharing with folks inquiring about these roles.
However, before I do, I could use feedback on the page. Please join the
discussion at:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedian_in_Residence/Creating_a…
Cheers,
Alex
P.S. This is part of a series of documentation improvements that we have
been making over the last couple years. I highly recommend other
documentation about the various major tactics used in the GLAM-Wiki
community:
- The Model projects portal which includes a survey of common project
models in GLAM-Wiki
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Model_projects.
- The recently updated Commons and Wikidata upload workflows portal
created as part of Structured Data on Commons:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Resources/Data_and_media_partnersh…
- The personas and research evaluating Commons use for GLAM-Wiki
projects:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Supporting_Commons_contribution_by…
- *The editathon organizer training that is part of the Programs and
Events Dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editathons
<https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editathons> *
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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
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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WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com
Out now: A.Gaynor, P. Newman and P. Jennings (eds.), *Never Again:
Reflections on Environmental Responsibility after Roe 8*, UWAP, 2017. Order
here
<https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/never-again-reflections-on-environmental-r…>
.
Forwarding some good news.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User: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
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<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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Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
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