Hi GLAM-Wiki programs leaders and community,
I am really excited to share with you that the foundation has received the
below grant for Structured Data on Commons. I have been supporting this
development, because as many of you know, GLAM-Wiki collaborations are
deeply connected to how we handle metadata, esp. integrating content
donations into Commons.
A major component of the grant, will be collaborating with our GLAM
partners, especially with institutions that have robust technical expertise
about structured data who can give feedback on the roadmap and features of
the Structured Commons project. If there is someone who should be kept
informed, please let me know: in the short term, I will be helping connect
the development team with some initial outside expertise and with partners
who have done mass-uploads before.
As we get deeper into the project we will want to also work with
organizations willing to interact with the technology. If any of your
partners or volunteer GLAM leaders would like to help us understand their
use of Commons please let me know.
Also, I wanted to give a special thank you to community leaders, like
User:Jarekt, User:Husky, User:Spinster, User:Multichill, User:Jane023,
User:Magnus Manske, User:TheDJ, User:Wittyllama, User:Aubrey,
User:Pigsonthewing, and the many others who for the last few years, have
been experimenting with connecting GLAM collections with our structured
data ecosystem on both Commons and through Wikidata. When both
communicating the need for Structured data on Commons within the Foundation
and supporting the development of the grant, the examples and case studies
you have provided along with all that I have learned about structured data
from you, helped greatly in putting this together.
I hope you all have a great start of the new year.
Cheers,
Alex
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From: Wes Moran <wmoran(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 2:48 PM
Subject: Exciting update about development of structured data on Commons
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org>
Hello Wikimedia community,
It’s our delight to inform you that we received a US$3,015,000 grant from
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_P._Sloan_Foundation> [1] to expedite
development of structured data on Commons. The grant will be given over the
course of three years, and will allow us to develop a team, in
collaboration with the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Deutschland, that can
focus on integrating the structured data features of Wikidata into
describing the media files on Commons.
This work will allow us to expedite features both on the Wikidata
development roadmap, and in other products supported by the Wikimedia
Foundation. The grant also provides funding to ensure that movement
stakeholders, like Wiki Loves Monuments and GLAM-Wiki program leaders, and
external partners who contribute heavily to Commons, such as GLAMs, can be
involved in the development.
We have drafted a high level overview of the grant and its scope, available
on Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Sloan_Grant>
[2]. A blog post about the grant is also available on the Wikimedia blog
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/09/sloan-foundation-structured-data>
[3].
We are currently in the process of identifying the technical lead for the
project. If you have questions, Alex Stinson, the Foundation’s GLAM-Wiki
strategist, will be leading the community engagement and communications for
the project until we hire a community liaison as part of the grant. Stay
tuned for more details about the project in the coming months.
We’re excited to be able to support this project, and look forward to your
participation in its development.
Thank you,
Wes Moran and Maggie Dennis
*Wes Moran, Vice President of Product*
*Maggie Dennis, Interim Chief of Community Engagement *
*Wikimedia Foundation*
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_P._Sloan_Foundation
[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Sloan_Grant
[3] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/09/sloan-foundation-structured-data
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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:
http://glamwiki.org
Hi all,
I think I lost the thread on this one but picking back up...
I am unable to attend midwinter so not really able to plan for something there. And, as folks who attend midwinter know, this is a more "business" focussed meeting than ALA annual. In any case, my colleagues at the OCLC booth would love to hand out stickers to folks who self identify as having done a citation. We could even do something fun like snap a photo of people with their stickers and post to social media (the OCLC Twitter account has a fair amount of followers).
Is it possible to get a #1Lib1Ref sticker (I know Roy handed out something last year but I don't recall what it was)? Or just a pile of the globe stickers? I can help coordinate this from afar...
Best,
Merrilee
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Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 6:19:21 AM
To: Wikimedia & Libraries
Cc: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination; North American Cultural Partnerships; Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]
Subject: Re: [cultural-partners] [libraries] Getting ready for #1lib1ref 2017
Hi,
ALA Mid-winter in Atlanta happens during this time period: January 20-24. Do we want to organize something at a local library, at the convention, or someplace else.
Would OCLC or one of the interest groups be willing to sponsor an edit-a-thon?
I am going to post this to the FB group too.
Sara
Sara Marks
Instruction & Outreach Librarian
UMass Lowell - O'Leary Library Rm. 260A
978-934-4581
sara_marks(a)uml.edu<mailto:sara_marks@uml.edu>
Appointments: https://saramarks.youcanbook.me
Twitter: @sara_marks
Wikipedia: Librarygurl
" I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.” - Albert Einstein
On Oct 31, 2016, at 3:38 PM, Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org<mailto:astinson@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
Hello Wikimedians!
We are excited to finally start coordinating among #1lib1ref organizers this month.
If you haven’t yet, we invite you to read the lessons that we learned from last year’s great campaign:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Lessons<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__meta.wikimedia.org_wik…>
As with last year, we hope to launch #1lib1ref on Wikipedia’s 16th birthday in January, asking librarians to “Give a birthday present to Wikipedia, by adding a reference”.
What’s new?
Last year we got a lot of feedback from librarians that they would have planned more activities if “they just had a bit more warning and time” so we are extending the campaign from eight days to 19 days, from January 15 through February 3.
We hope this does two things: a) it allows for several waves of communications and people adopting the campaign for local events and b) fits better with the start of the Spring Term at many universities in the Northern Hemisphere, where librarians are in demand for various activities.
We also noticed last year a lot of social media about informal gatherings: librarians wanted to learn about Wikipedia socially at physical events. We think this is a great opportunity, so the Wikipedia Library team is developing a coffee hour kit that provides enough material to help librarians coordinate a small gathering, where they can talk about Wikipedia with their peers and add their one reference.
The kit is going to include: a) recommendations for planning, b) a series of discussion questions, c) easy suggested activities, and d) a flyer template for promoting the event locally. If you would like to help build the kit, or a new 1lib1ref logo, let us know.
How you can help
We hope the campaign offers a platform for engaging librarians in your region and context to learn more about Wikimedia projects. We know librarians use Wikipedia for a variety of purposes, but the campaign’s story--specifically how our references work--becomes a shared foundation for understanding and entering our community. If you would like to coordinate #1lib1ref in your area, here are the main steps:
1.
Join the Wikipedia + Libraries Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikilibrary<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_group…>
2.
Fill out this survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflWCp9QkNbIZWXCWU02bp_FGCAua4Z6Ua…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_…>
3.
Review Citation Hunt -- a volunteer-developed tool that allows for randomly being offered a citation. Check if your language is supported in the top right.
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URL: https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tools.wmflabs.org_cita…>
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Report Bugs or request features or language support: https://github.com/eggpi/citationhunt/issues<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_eggpi_citat…>
4.
Review Hashtag Tracking -- a way to track edits made through the edit summary field.
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URL: https://tools.wmflabs.org/hashtags<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tools.wmflabs.org_hash…>
*
Report bugs or request features or language support: https://github.com/hatnote/hashtags/issues/new<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_hatnote_has…>
1.
Translate the campaign page to your local language. We want to have it ready for translation no later than November 10th and will notify you with an email that it’s ready.
2.
Begin reaching out to partners that you think will want to participate during the campaign through a) communications or b) activities.
We look forward to collaborating with you! Thanks so much for your help--it should be a lot of fun.
Best,
Alex Stinson
Jake Orlowitz
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GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
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Dear GLAMwiki community,
This is a quick 'for your information' announcement, on behalf of
Europeana, to say that a 2017 sequel to the 2015 European GLAMwiki
Coordinators meeting[1] is now confirmed.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_European_GLAMwiki_Coordinators_meeting
This two-day meeting will be hosted at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on
16 & 17 February (with a third day for practical training workshops hosted
by WM-France). The goal is to share skills and best practices, coordinate
projects, and consolidate connections between parts of our movement
involved in GLAM outreach.
As this a functionaries meeting, not an outreach conference, attendance
numbers are limited to those who have responsibility for coordinating GLAM
activities at a European Wikimedia affiliate organisation - staff, board or
designated volunteer. Nevertheless, as with 2015, both the advance-planning
and post-event documentation will be published on Meta as best as we can
make it.
If your Wikimedia affiliate has a GLAM coordinator and would like to
attend, please get in contact with any of us off list.
Sincerely,
Liam Wyatt (Europeana), John Cummings (WiR - UNESCO), & Rémy Gerbet
(WM-France)
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_European_GLAMwiki_Coordinators_meeting
Hi all,
Every year on the first of January it is Public Domain Day
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain_Day> on what thousands of
works of authors that died 70 years ago enter the public domain. This
results in the restoration of many works on Wikimedia Commons, but this
slowly moves larger.
Besides the works that are restored on Wikimedia Commons, we actively ask
cultural institutions to look for works of artworks that died 70 years ago
(in most countries) and to upload images of those works (on/after 1
January) on Wikimedia Commons.
This year it concerns the works of authors who died in 1946.
(Of course it is also welcome to have them upload works from authors who
died in earlier years, but that is not the focus.)
As this is an event and/or new activity, this also can be interesting for
GLAMs as they get more attention for those works on Wikipedia, but also in
the press!
It would be great if we as Wikimedia movement could ask museums if they
have works of authors who died 70 years ago, s they can release them in the
public domain.
An incomplete list of authors that died in 1946 can be found at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_in_public_domain
If you are taking this up in your country/area, please let me know so I can
collect all results.
Thanks!
Romaine
Hi everyone,
In November 2016, the Temminck Groll Collection of the Dutch Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Temminck_Groll_Collection>, consisting of 2,641 historical photographs, was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. I did the upload, using Pattypan <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Pattypan>. I can recommend this tool very warmly.
It’s a collection of photos of historical buildings and heritage in the following countries/regions:
- French Antilles
- French Guyana
- Ghana
- Guyana
- India
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- Dutch Antilles
- Sri Lanka
- Suriname
- South Africa
These are all regions with which the Dutch have historical relations. The Dutch architect and architectural historian Coen Temminck Groll <https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coen_Temminck_Groll> (1925-2015) shot these photos while travelling and studying 'shared cultural heritage' (heritage of the Netherlands located outside the country’s borders). These travels mainly took place in the 1960s and 1970s.
Temminck Groll worked on the subject of the shared cultural heritage of the Netherlands his entire life, and has widely published about it.
The collection is made available to Wikimedia Commons in the context of the project The Netherlands and the world <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland/The_Netherlands_and_the…>.
All help is welcome in adding these images to Wikipedia articles, Wikidata items, monument lists and more!
Many greetings, Sandra
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Sandra Fauconnier
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http://www.spinster.be
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
The next online office hour session of the Wikimedia Language team is
scheduled for next Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 at 13:00 UTC. 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 if you would like to join in the Hangout. During the
session, we will be taking questions from viewers only on the IRC channel
#wikimedia-office. The channel will be open for interactions during the
session.
Our last online round-table session was held in September 21, 2016. You can
watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXgMZ7myEA4
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 Language team's office hour session
# When: December 7, 2016 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20161207T1300)
# Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2PgVNSmohE and on IRC
#wikimedia-office (Freenode)
# Agenda:
Updates from the Language team and Q & A.
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Language Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation