Now that the first GLAM has uploaded their own content with the GWToolset (Beeld en Geluid) we have just published a blogpost formally announcing the tool's existence to the wider world:

http://pro.europeana.eu/pro-blog/-/blogs/sharing-multimedia-on-wikipedia-now... Please share it with your colleagues, GLAMs, chapters, social media...

This post also highlights the work of the most prolific used of the tool thus far (Fae) and the person who has made the most use of the content which has been uploaded alredy (Taketa).

I'll tell people about this blogpost on the cultural partnerships mailing lists tomorrow and also the Wikipedia Signpost. Hopefully this will also generate some interest in Dan's proposed hacking workshop at Wikimania (sign up here https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon#GWToolset ) and the two presentations at Wikimania on the Sunday 11:30 session ( https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme#Sunday.2C_August_10 )

Thank you to Dan especially for all the incredibly hard work you've put in to this project over the years. Now that it's "out there" I suspect that it will become popular enough that it starts to get peppered with people trying to push the boundaries of what is possible. And, a bit like the way Magnus' tools always seem to go from being 'proof of concept' to 'mandatory tool' very quickly, I am hoping that the GWT will become a standard feature of GLAM activities very soon.

On a personal note, I realise I've not been involved in actual development phase of the software but it is nice to be at the 'birth' of this project that I helped introduce https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3A2011_GLAMcamp_Amsterdam_Mass_Upload_and_Metrics.ogv, back at GLAMcamp:Amstersdam in 2011!

Sincerely, -Liam

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