Dear GLAM community,
I'm reaching out requesting your help in participating in a survey on GenAI
and its impact on cultural heritage, education and research. Please see
below all the details.
Would appreciate you taking a few minutes to fill it out, as well as
sharing the link with your colleagues in cultural heritage institutions
around the world.
Thanks in advance for all your help,
Shani.
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Dear Colleagues and friends,
We are Jane Winters, Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of
London, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Visiting Fellow at the Digital
Humanities Research Hub (DHRH) at the University of London. We are
interested in better understanding the implications of Generative AI on
knowledge consumption and knowledge production processes and we are
reaching out to* invite you to participate in a survey on ‘Attitudes
towards Generative AI in Research, Cultural Heritage, and Education’.*
The aim of this research is to gain insight into understandings and uses of
AI in professional practice, and specifically in research, higher education
and the cultural heritage sector, and to explore attitudes to these
developing technologies. This will inform further research into issues of
trust and the value of structured data and human expertise when designing
and implementing Generative AI tools.
As a researcher / practitioner in one or more of these fields, your
insights will be invaluable in understanding the current landscape and
future potential of generative AI applications. The survey should take
between 10-15 minutes (depending on how much you would like to share), and
your responses will remain confidential.
Here is a shareable link to the survey:
https://forms.office.com/e/MjvHAUBTAG.
We would also be grateful if you could also share the link to the survey
with relevant colleagues, fellow educators, and professionals in the
cultural heritage sector. By participating and spreading the word, you are
directly contributing to the growth of knowledge in this rapidly evolving
field. The results of this survey will be shared openly in order to
contribute to an evidence base for the development of future policy and
practice.
The survey will be open until the end of May 2024, and we very much
appreciate your time and collaboration. If you have any questions about the
research, please feel free to email us.
Thank you very much for taking the time to complete this survey.
Best wishes,
Prof. Jane Winters,
Professor of Digital Humanities & Director of the Digital Humanities
Research Hub,
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Dr. Shani Evenstein Sigalov,
Visiting Fellow, Digital Humanities Research Hub
School of Advanced Study, University of London.
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Hello all!
What happened with GLAM in May? Let us know and write a (short) report
about it for the newsletter 'This Month in GLAM' so that the worldwide and
local Wikimedia community can read what happened in your area. Also this
will encourage others to participate and donate material.
You can start writing here:
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Please mention also the coming GLAM activities on our calendar on:
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Deadline: 7 June
If anyone needs help/explanation about the newsletter, please ask!
Thanks & greetings!
Romaine
We need your expertise! Your insights are crucial to the GLAM CSI (Contributor
Study Initiative) project, and we invite you to participate in our survey
today.
https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/985159?lang=en
Please fill out the survey in the context of any GLAM and
Wikimedia-related work
you might have done, as we are attempting to capture user stories for
feedback to the Wikimedia Foundation. What motivations do you have and what
tools do you use? Are you engaging Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, or
Wikibase?
You can answer from the viewpoint of a volunteer editor, a Wikimedian in
Residence, an affiliate collaboration, or in the persona of any existing
(or recent) GLAM Wiki effort. (GLAM is considered a broad term in this
context, so content partnerships or complex contributions at scale are
welcome.)
A description and survey can be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_CSI#Survey
Feel free to contact me with any questions or issues.
Thanks!
-Andrew Lih
GLAM CSI, principal investigator
Smithsonian Institution - Wikimedian at Large
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Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting.
Wikimedia Germany is organising a special networking meeting for
German-speaking cultural heritage practitioners who use wikidata and
wikibase to build linked open cultural heritage data. Our goal is to
initiate a German language community of practice. If this sounds like you,
please take a look at what we have planned (details below) and consider
joining us in June or signing on to our mailing list
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/openglam-de.lists.wikimedia.org/>
to stay in the loop.
Thanks!
Lucy
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*Netzwerktreffen "kulturelles Erbe, Linked Open Data und das Wikiversum"
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Netzwerktreffen_offene_Kulturdaten_2024>*
Freitag 14.06.24, 10:00 AM - 15:00 PM
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24, 10963 Berlin
*Remote-Teilnahme auch möglich*
Ein 1-tägiges Treffen in Berlin zur Vernetzung von deutschsprachigen
Fachleuten aus dem Kulturerbe-Sektor und Community-Mitgliedern, die bereits
mit den Wikimedia-Projekten am Aufbau von Linked Open Data arbeiten. Das
Ziel des Treffens ist es, eine Community of Practice zu initiieren. Diese
soll sich regelmäßig treffen, um bewährte Praxisbeispiele auszutauschen und
neue zu entwickeln, Fachwissen zu erweitern, Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse
zu teilen, Strategien zur Interessenvertretung und Finanzierung zu
diskutieren und Kooperationen aufzubauen. Diese Community of Practice wird
ein Ort sein, an dem sowohl die Erfahrenen ihr Wissen teilen und
austauschen als auch die Anfänger*innen ihre ersten Schritte machen können.
Für diese ersten Netzwerktreffen möchten wir diejenigen zusammenbringen,
die bereits Erfahrung mit der Nutzung von Wikidata/-base für den Aufbau von
LOD zum kulturellen Erbe haben und daran interessiert sind, Gleichgesinnte
kennenzulernen. Egal ob institutioneller Datenverantwortlicher*innen,
Forscher*innen oder Freiwilliger*innen, schließen Sie sich uns an!
Ziel des 1-tägigen Treffen:
- Vernetzung von deutschsprachigen Fachleuten aus dem Kulturerbe-Sektor
und Community-Mitgliedern. Das Treffen bietet die Möglichkeit, Kolleg*innen
aus dem gesamten Bereich des kulturellen Erbes kennenzulernen, die mit
Wikidata und Wikibase arbeiten.
- Aufbau einer Community of Practice: Diese soll sich regelmäßig
treffen, um bewährte Praxisbeispiele auszutauschen und neue zu entwickeln,
Fachwissen zu erweitern, Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse zu teilen, Strategien
zur Interessenvertretung und Finanzierung zu diskutieren und Kooperationen
aufzubauen.
*Programm, weitere Infos und Anmeldung hier
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Netzwerktreffen_offene_Kulturdaten_2024>.*
--
Dr. Lucy Patterson (she/her)
Project Manager Digital Cultural Heritage
(Work days: Mon-Thu)
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
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Hello everyone,
A few weeks ago, we announced the WikiLearn course on how to upload and
edit files on Wikimedia Commons using OpenRefine.
- In English: OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons: the basics
<https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_GLAM001+2023/…>
- In Spanish / Español*: OpenRefine para Wikimedia Commons: conceptos
básicos
<https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_GLAM001+2024_…>
- In French / Français*: OpenRefine pour Wikimedia Commons : les bases
<https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_GLAM001+2024_…>
We are now happy to announce the translation for Italian!
- In Italian / Italiano: Introduzione all'uso di OpenRefine per
Wikimedia Commons
<https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_GLAM001+2024_…>
This course can be easily translated into other languages (more about
the translation process here
<https://studio.learn.wiki/meta_translations/discover_courses/> and here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutorial_on_how_to_translate_course…>).
More translations are on the way, including Portuguese, which will be
launched soon.
All the versions of this course are available at any time for free. You
only need a Wikimedia account and the course can be followed at your own
pace, with computer-graded exercises. A certificate is awarded at the end
and an average of 6 to 8 hours is needed to complete the course.
Please, feel free to share these translations with people who speak these
languages and who you think might be interested in learning more
about OpenRefine or Wikimedia Commons.
Thank you so much, Marta Erica Arosio, for your amazing work translating
this course into Italian! 👏👏👏
Best,
Giovanna
* These two courses/languages had problems before and are now fixed and
fully available.
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer, Culture and Heritage
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>