I'm CCing the public GLAM lists as well, since you've already made this
announcement publicly.
This is awesome. Providing reference services is one of the areas where
libraries can provide unique value to Wikipedia and the people its content
serves. We've in the past been more often concerned with the unique
collections of institutions, especially museums and archives, so this kind
of service is really exciting. I hope is becomes a model.
(I can't help but wonder if your departure from the NLA will affect the
longevity of the project; curious if the reference team is carrying the
relationship without your continued involvement.)
Dominic
On 6 May 2014 22:29, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Australian Wikimedians, cultural partners list,
> (also cc'ing Ed, in case the Signpost might like to mention this).
>
> *TL;DR - The National Library is actively requesting Wikipedians ask
> reference questions and links to the service are now on all Wikiproject
> Australia templates on WP article talkpages. Blogpost:
> http://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/behind-the-scenes/2014/05/07/ask-a-librarian-no…
> <http://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/behind-the-scenes/2014/05/07/ask-a-librarian-no…>
> Direct link to the free service: http://www.nla.gov.au/askalibrarian
> <http://www.nla.gov.au/askalibrarian> *
>
> Over the last year working here at the National Library of Australia, I've
> been trying and find ways to bring the National Library's reference team
> closer to the Wikimedia community - for mutual benefit. They provide a free
> service to help the public (not necessarily only Australians or people with
> [free] library cards) to find and learn how to access reference materials.
> It is particularly useful when they can point people to the unique
> resources of the NLA collection but that's not a limiting factor!
>
> So, having got the team to talk to Jake Ocassi (from 'the wikipedia
> library') a while ago, and the debating how to do this in a
> mutually-acceptable way (both WP and NLA have strict privacy policies for
> example) we came up with this:
>
> To link directly to the Ask a Librarian service from the Wikiproject
> Australia template on talkpages and, when applicable to the article, to the
> equivalent service in the relevant State Library. Managing the actual
> coding and design was spearheaded by user:99of9.
>
> We investigated having even greater integration (e.g. having the
> librarians be able to receive and respond to questions on-wiki or for the
> 'email this user' function to be used to create a ticket in the Ask a
> Librarian system [called ref-tracker, similar to OTRS]), but this would
> have required too great a change to workflows - at least for
> never-before-tried concept.
>
> So, having sought and received consensus both among the Library staff, as
> well as on the Australian Wikipedians Noticeboard, the system was enabled!
> See, for example the last line of the wikiproject Australia template for
> [[Darwin, Northern Territory]]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Darwin,_Northern_Territory As you can
> see this is directed at Wikipedia *editors *not readers. Ultimately we're
> just talking about a series of external links, but the significance in my
> opinion is that Wikipedia has accepted the usefulness (and philosophical
> compatibility) of this service enough to allow thousands of external links
> to be auto-created - something that would normally be forbidden. Equally,
> it is a great precedent for the library community here (and
> internationally?) to see Wikipedians as a potential usergroup of their
> services that they *really *want to engage with. After all - answering a
> reference enquiry from one person helps that person, but answering a
> wikipedian helps thousands!
>
> The service has been in place for a few weeks now and has been used
> several times successfully by Wikipedians. We can't say who, or what
> article they improved because the Library privacy policy forbids publishing
> identifiable information about customers. However, today I pressed publish
> on the Library's blogpost on the topic, written by the biggest champion of
> the idea within the reference team - Renee Wilson (also cc'd):
>
>
> http://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/behind-the-scenes/2014/05/07/ask-a-librarian-no…
>
> It talks about other forms of getting in contact via social media but the
> real meat from WP's perspective is near the end:
>
> Wikipedia editors know the importance of using reliable sources to improve
>> articles, and that the most authoritative sources aren't always available
>> online. Our Ask a Librarian team can help you uncover verifiable
>> information, so you can have confidence in the references that underpin
>> your article. Trying to track down some particularly elusive source
>> material? We can help you add dimension and detail to your article by
>> shining a light on Australia's cultural record in our unique collection
>> items.
>>
>> By making the Ask a Librarian service more accessible to Wikipedia
>> editors, we are helping to make authoritative information about Australia
>> available to the world. You can read more information about the project on
>> the WikiProject Australia/Ask a Librarian documentation page<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WikiProject_Australia/AAL/What>.
>> We've already received some great questions from Wikipedians - the kind
>> that really let us apply our trademark librarian rigor. We look forward to
>> receiving many more, and seeing your articles flourish!
>>
>
> So, I'd really appreciate if, the next time you're looking for a reference
> or stuck trying to improve an article - go here and submit an enquiry
> http://www.nla.gov.au/askalibrarian Tell them you're a wikipedian and
> which article you're trying to improve. (equally, feel free to tell others
> e.g. retweet this https://twitter.com/nlagovau/status/463845761176711169 )
>
> -Liam
>
> wittylama.com
> Peace, love & metadata
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I am very pleased to announce that WikiConference USA is less than 30 days
away! Over the last few months, Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC have been
collecting curated submissions on a diversity of wiki and free/open
knowledge-related topics (with tracks on Community, Tech, Outreach, GLAM,
Education), and recruited some excellent keynote speakers who can speak to
their personal activism and leadership in these domains.
But this is a "Wiki" conference, and what it thrives on most is your
participation, your differing areas of experience and expertise, to enliven
and enrich all of the sessions we have planned together. And, exciting
too, there still will be numerous opportunities for "unconference" sessions
led by participants on the fly, and we encourage you to bring the ideas
from your domain for these sessions as well.
Here are the details for the conference:
Dates: Friday, May 30, 2014 - Sunday, June 1, 2014
Location: New York Law School (185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013)
Website: http://wikiconferenceusa.org
Email: wikicon(a)wikimedianyc.org
Registration: http://wikiconusa.eventbrite.org/
And our distinguished and dynamic roster of keynote speakers:
*Phoebe Ayers - Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
*Sumana Harihareswara - Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Team;
Advisor, Ada Initiative
*Christie Koehler - Community Building Education Lead, Mozilla Corporation
*DC Vito, Executive Director - The LAMP/MediaBreaker
For more information, please review our official press release below! We
hope you will join us and help us spread the word!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCon_USA_2014_Press_Release_v1.p…
Thanks,
Richard Knipel (User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
Hi all,
Some of you have known about this project which has been in the works for some time - works IDs. For those of you who did know about it, they have been released. Huzzah!
http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/linked-data/worldcat-entities.en.html
For those of you who are scratching your heads and wondering why this is important or how it might be useful, I offer you a great example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance
Right now, the convention in InfoBox Book, etc. is to note the ISBN and other IDs associated with the first edition of a work. Although this is useful, in an information retrieval context it is not as useful as it might be - adding one or more work IDs to the mix would be useful because the work ID can bring back more information about editions published in different locations, on different dates, etc.
http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/12477503.html
I'm curious to hear what you think. Are these identifiers useful in the Wikimedia world? Right now OCLC numbers are used, as are VIAF ids, and Dewey numbers.
Best,
Merrilee
Good news! The successful, free journal access partnerships organized by
The Wikipedia Library are expanding with two new pilots:
* Oxford University Press - 150 accounts for humanities references -
http://enwp.org/WP:OUP
* Royal Society Journals - 24 accounts for science journals -
http://enwp.org/WP:RSUK
There's also ongoing availability for:
* Questia Online Library - 600 accounts for news and social science
articles - http://enwp.org/WP:Questia
* HighBeam Research - 600 accounts for news archives -
http://enwp.org/WP:HighBeam
Sign up today!
Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)
The Wikipedia Library is happy to announce 3 open positions for "Wikipedia
Visiting Scholars" with Applications due May 1st.
A visiting scholar is unpaid (volunteer) and remote (no relocation): the
editor is given research affiliate status and full online library access at
a top research university, with a goal only of writing Wikipedia articles
using those resources.
George Mason University was the first visiting scholar position and it is
now held by User:Wehwalt with a focus on history.
Positions typically last 6-12 months. They may optionally include
opportunities for travel to or talks at the University, although these are
not required.
These partnerships are a great way for an editor to gain access to a full
suite of typically closed-access sources. The official staff position will
also make a great addition to a CV or resume.
The three new participating institutions are:
University of California at Riverside, (specialty, history or science)
*application:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxMNOw7LJBEaRFhrc1B2bWNUWGp4U2xMZGxiclVVY3…
*apply to: afrenkel(a)ucr.edu
Rutgers University, (specialty, transdisciplinary)
*application:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14FdaV5M4Ufv7673vxE65VgYGpX6yvrsBjnX2kxc…
*apply to: gagnew(a)rci.rutgers.edu
Montana State University, (specialty, history or environment)
*application:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxMNOw7LJBEaaWpSSFBKMzdvZHowSkloTzlmTXUzbn…
*apply to: brossmann(a)montana.edu
Applications should include:
*A standard résumé or curriculum vitae that also includes:
**A link to your Wikipedia profile
**At least three links to Wikipedia articles on topics in the specialty
area to which you have contributed.
*A cover letter with:
**A description of your background, including why you contribute to
Wikipedia
**What level of specialty area expertise and interest you have in which
fields, regions, or periods
**A summary of what access you currently have (or don’t have) to research
materials such as databases and scholarly journals
**An explanation of why you want to become a Wikipedia Affiliate at the
University.
**A brief outline of the specialty topic(s) and/or specific Wikipedia
articles you would focus on during your affiliate year.
More information on this neat opportunity is at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TWL/WVS
For questions contact Ocaasi at jorlowitz(a)gmail.com or on English Wikipedia
at http://enwp.org/User:Ocaasi
Cheers,
Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)
The Wikipedia Library
You're invited to participate in the Film, Freedom, and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon this Friday, April 25th. Although the edit-a-thon will be held as part of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) 2014 in Rochester, you do not need to be attending the conference to participate. Online participation is highly encouraged!
Check out the Meetup page for inspiration, resources, and tools: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/FilmFreedomAndFeminism
To participate,
1. Add your username to the list of participants.
2. Edit anytime, anywhere on Friday, April 25th on the topics of film, freedom, or feminism.
3. Add your contributions to the Outcomes section of the Meetup page.
Happy editing!
Lea
Leanora Lange
Processing and Institutional Archivist and Digitization Projects Liaison
Center for Jewish History
15 W. 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
212-294-8301 x1051
llange(a)cjh.org<mailto:llange@cjh.org>
Hey everyone,
Not sure if anyone else saw this or not, but the Signpost on the English
Wikipedia has published an article that talks about Wikipedians in residence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-04-23/Op-ed
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
Computer Specialist
Alizee Pathology
Forwarding to list.
Thank you guys for all of your help so far. I haven't been very fast at
replying, but I have been reading everything that is being sent to me.
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
From: Michael Barera [mailto:manthonybarera@gmail.com]
Sent: 08 April 2014 23:40
To: Derric Atzrott
Cc: 'Bettina Cousineau'
Subject: Re: [libraries] GLAM: Frederick Historical Society
Derric,
Yes, please feel free to forward my response to the list.
Regarding my "generally oriented" slidedeck, the text is licensed under the
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attributio…
areAlike_3.0_Unported_License> Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
Unported License, although not all of the images are (some are PD-ineligible and
one is copyrighted with a claim of fair use). I've put all the copyright notes,
complete with relevant links to licenses, in the notes section on that
slidedeck. Please feel free to use it to pitch your idea for Wikipedia
collaboration to the Frederick Historical Society.
Also, there are a couple links of which Bettina reminded me that I think would
be helpful to you. One is the Ball State case study
<http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march13/szajewski/03szajewski.html> that I briefly
reference in my (general) slidedeck, and the other is a list of GLAM case
studies that includes many more examples beyond my experience at the Ford
Presidential Library. I hope that you find these useful.
Regarding warnings, I would primarily say that you need to be prepared to
explain Wikipedia and its ways to people unfamiliar with it, and don't expect
them to be completely onboard with the idea of Wikipedia collaboration. Try to
understand where people at the historical society (or any other GLAM
institution) are coming from, and respect their worries about "their" content
being edited and recategorized by Wikipedians they know nothing about and have
never met. To make a long story short, you may run into various forms of
resistance; just be aware of the possibility and do the best you can with any
resistance you face.
At the end of the day, remember that a collaboration project may not continue
indefinitely or even for a substantial period of time, for many possible
reasons. Because of this, I believe that having manageable and achievable goals
are especially important. As are methods for showing your GLAM institution what
sort of impact their materials are having on Wikipedia and the visibility of
their own institution on the Internet (web analytics and DYKs
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Did_you_know> are great, in my
opinion).
I hope this all makes sense. If not, I'd be happy to clarify or provide more
information. Take care!
- Michael
On 14-04-08 09:07 AM, Derric Atzrott wrote:
Micheal,
Do you mind if I forward your email to the list? Or do you think we should keep
the rest of this conversation offlist? I know in wikitech-l they generally
dislike taking things offlist.
Also what license is the more generally oriented slidedeck available under? I
would like to reuse that to help pitch the idea of setting up a GLAM
collaboration to the Frederick Historical Society. They had actually already
asked me to volunteer after I spent a few hours discussing local history with
one of their archivists. Perhaps instead of volunteering as a research
assistant, I could suggest that I volunteer as a WiR.
The information you provided to me was very helpful. I'm in a much better
position now than I was originally. Are there any pitfalls that it would be
best to warn me about before I propose something to them? Are there problems
you ran into during your GLAM project that could have been easily avoided with a
little bit of experience?
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
From: Michael Barera [mailto:manthonybarera@gmail.com]
Sent: 07 April 2014 23:11
To: datzrott(a)alizeepathology.com
Cc: Bettina Cousineau
Subject: Re: [libraries] GLAM: Frederick Historical Society
Derric,
I recently heard about your ideas for a GLAM project at the Frederick Historical
Society from Bettina Cousineau, and as a former Wikipedian in Residence
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_residence> (WiR) I thought that
I'd jump in and point you to some resources about my experience and how it can
be applied to other GLAM and WiR contexts.
First of all, I'd encourage you to check out the GLAM pages from my WiR project
at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library: there is one each on Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Gerald_R._Ford_Presidential_Li…
y_and_Museum> , Wikimedia Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Gerald_R._Ford_Presidential_Libr…
and_Museum> , and Wikisource
<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_Gerald_R._Ford_Presid…
al_Library> .
Also, here is a slidedeck and list of Internet resources
<https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bw26sQWwKBUnT3NQR0JuMGRLeVk&usp=sha…
> I put together for a talk at Ohio State University on both my WiR experience
and thoughts for what they could do going forward in Columbus.
Finally, I have a more generally oriented slidedeck
<https://docs.google.com/a/umich.edu/presentation/d/1xegKVZb_9kava-Co1CagLiI…
7siwRXACryCsfcJU/edit#slide=id.p> from a conference presentation at the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor that focuses on what GLAM institutions can
reasonably achieve by partnering with Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects more
broadly.
I hope you find these links to be useful. Also, feel free to pick my brain,
either via e-mail or at my Wikipedia user page
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Michael_Barera> .
Take care!
- Michael Barera
Derric,
Isn't there a National Archive somewhere that's tried this ? :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dominic
Kristin
User:Djembayz
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> > whole. How would be the best way to approach trying to set something
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Hello,
Over the weekend I spoke with some folks from the Frederick Historical Society
about Wikipedia and Wikisource and the value that their collection has. I
mentioned the GLAM initiative to them, and they seemed interested. One person
even printed out the GLAM page [0] for reference.
Do any of you have experience setting up GLAM initiatives with archives? They
have a lot of pre-1927 documents and photos that I suspect could be very useful
to Wikipedia editors and the public as a whole. How would be the best way to
approach trying to set something up. I myself actually am not as familiar with
GLAM as I could be. Is there any pages that I should make sure I am familiar
with as well?
Note: This is unrelated to the edit-a-thon thread. The edit-a-thon is being
hosted by my local public library. Here I am trying to set something up with my
local historical society.
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
Computer Specialist
Alizee Pathology
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM