Hello all!
Hope this email finds you well. We are sending this message to select
community mailing lists and all previous recipients of a Wikimedia
Foundation Rapid Grant.
We have an announcement regarding the closure of the Rapid Grants [1]
program between May 14 - June 30, 2018. This year we've received a lot of
interest in the program and this quarter we've almost doubled the amount of
grants offered to the community compared to last year's quarter. You can
look at our spending analysis
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_spending_analysis>
[2] for
reference. Unfortunately, this means we've expended our funds for this
fiscal year. The last date we will be receiving an application for a rapid
grant before the closure will be *Friday, May 11, 2018*.
We encourage *Wiki Loves Earth* participants to apply for a Rapid Grant by
May 11, 2018 to receive support for their project.
The grant program will be open again to receive grant requests starting *July
1, 2018*. At this point we will be implementing the following changes:
1. There will be a minimum of *$500 USD* for grant requests
2. Applications will only be accepted between the *1st - 15th of each month*.
This is to help with our current workflow and to allow us to be more
responsive to your requests.
If you have any questions, please email us at rapidgrants(a)wikimedia.org.
Best regards,
Woubzena
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_spending_analysis
Woubzena Jifar
Program Officer
Rapid Grants
Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
User: WJifar (WMF)
We are pleased to announce that Red de Leon (User:Alternativity) has
been hired by the Bantayog ng mga Bayani[1][2] (“Monument to Heroes”),
a Philippine foundation that maintains a museum and library dedicated
to the heroes and victims of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship, as its
first Wikipedian in Residence. As far as we know, this is also the
first ever Residence project in East and Southeast Asia. The project
will last for three months from April to June 2018.
As a Wikipedian in Residence, Red will be working with a small team to
help the digitize portions of Bantayog's library as well as to improve
coverage of topics related to the Marcos regime in Wikipedia and its
sister projects. He will also serve as a liaison between Bantayog and
the Wikimedia community by organizing events and workshops, and plan
to help the Filipino Wikimedia community grow by sharing his skills as
a Wikipedian to Bantayog’s constituency of museum visitors, library
researchers, and supporters.
If you are interested, you can check out the project page[3] on the
Outreach Wiki where more information about the project and its output
will be posted.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantayog_ng_mga_Bayani
[2] http://bantayog.org/
[3] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence_at_Bantayog_ng_…
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carlos nazareno
http://twitter.com/object404http://www.object404.com
Hey all,
If you are doing Wikidata + GLAM looks like a great opportunity!
Cheers,
Alex
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From: Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>
Date: Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 4:40 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] Fwd: [OpenGLAM] CfP MTSR2018-SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA
& SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATIONS
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Possibly of interest; it would certainly be good to have Wikidata
represented there in some way:
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From: Sofia Zapounidou <szapoun(a)lib.auth.gr>
Date: 5 April 2018 at 14:18
Subject: [OpenGLAM] CfP MTSR2018-SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS
for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATIONS
To: open-glam(a)lists.okfn.org
1st Call for Papers, apologies for cross-posting
------------------------------
SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS &
APPLICATIONS
Part of the 12th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics
Research (MTSR 2018),
October 23 – 2018, Limassol, Cyprus.
Submission deadline: June 15th, 2018
Proceedings will be published in Springer CCIS series
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.
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). 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
June 15th, 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 (TBA)
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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
Hello GLAM and Library program leaders,
We are in the process of thinking how to improve the Programs & Events
Dashboard, and would like to request that you help us by sharing your
perceptions,
and recommendations.
In order for you to share with us, we have set up a survey here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdjGXr8TtnSFYhBvMFUUsTZ
1PSHAgoNZc7Tp3fRJPqIeMJtTg/viewform
We expect this survey to take less than 20 minutes of your time. If possible,
please fill out the survey this week.
Note: This survey will be conducted via a third-party service, which
may subject
it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling,
see the survey privacy statement
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2018_Programs_%26_Events_Dashboard_Sur…
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2018_Programs_%26_Events_Dashboard_Sur…>
Thank you for taking the time and helping us figure out the next steps in the
evolution of the P&E Dashboard.
Best Regards,
Alex Stinson
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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
Hello,
Due to unavoidable reasons, we have had to move this online session to next
week, on 28th March 2018. The time will be same i.e. 1300 UTC. I will send
a reminder ahead of the session. Meanwhile, please see the original
announcement below for other details.
Thanks, and apologies for this last minute change.
regards
Runa
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Runa Bhattacharjee <
rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> [x-posted announcement]
>
> Hello,
>
> Wikimedia Foundation’s Language team would like to invite you for an
> online office hour session scheduled for Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 at
> 13:00 UTC. This will be an open session to talk about our work, and in
> particular the changes to interlanguage links, which were recently
> rolled-out on the English Wikipedia.
>
> The new option shows a list of up to 9 languages instead of a long list
> that can have more than 200 items, and a panel with all the links that can
> be looked up in any language using a search box. The purpose of this
> feature is to make articles in all languages easier to find. We recently
> published a blog post about this feature and the thoughts behind the
> development:
>
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/08/compact-language-links-launch.
>
> 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 in advance if you would like to
> join in the Hangout. The IRC channel will be open for interactions during
> the session.
>
> Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube
> session links and do let us know if you have any questions.
>
> Thank you
> Runa
>
> == Details ==
>
> # Event: Wikimedia Foundation Language office hour session
>
> # When: March 21st, 2018 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180321T1300)
>
> # Where: and on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmZcL6zVcTA
>
>
> # Agenda:
> Discussion about Compact Language Links, and Q & A.
>
>
> --
> Engineering Manager, Language (Contributors)
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
--
Engineering Manager, Language (Contributors)
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi everyone!
On Monday 14 May, Europeana and Wikimedia host a day of free in-depth
GLAM-Wiki workshops around Wikidata, and structured data on Wikimedia
Commons, at the Europeana offices in The Hague. This day is organized in
collaboration with, and precedes the EuropeanaTech Conference 2018,
which takes place in Rotterdam 15 and 16 May.
You can find a preliminary program, and information about registration,
at:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/EuropeanaTech_2018_Wikidata_w…
The EuropeanaTech conference program itself will also have a large
Wikimedia and Wikidata component :-) Maybe some of you - or GLAMs you
work with - are already planning to attend it; feel free to point people
to the Wikimedia workshops on 14 May too!
If you have any questions or remarks about the event, feel free to
contact me or Liam Wyatt (Europeana's GLAM-Wiki coordinator).
All the best! Sandra
--
Sandra Fauconnier
GLAM-Wiki Strategist, Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @glamwiki
How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hi everyone,
The first conversation about structured licensing and copyright on
Commons for the Structured Data project [0] is available for
participation [1]. The purpose of the discussion is to help identify the
best way to build a model for copyright information and licenses on
Commons.
In this phase, we are discussing how we can approach licensing on
Commons in general. We can stay close to the current situation of
copyright templates on Commons; or we can rethink the way we treat
copyright and licenses so that we are compatible with other schemes and
systems used by other institutions; or maybe we want to have another
approach altogether.
More detailed discussions will come later this year.
If you have experience with copyright on Commons, and have ideas on how
we can positively impact work with GLAMs in this area, please provide
feedback! Your input is crucial :-)
Warmly, Sandra
0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…