While
we're on the topic of GLAM learning resources- Ally Crockford, WiR at
the National Library of Scotland, myself, and colleagues in NY have been
talking about some ideas I'd like to open up to the GLAM community, and
possible continue on talk pages.
As a training-based
WiR I have noticed that in meetings with librarians and archivists they
voice a pretty consistent desire for more resources that describe some
'standard' procedures for GLAM editing and the problems that GLAMs face
with COI. Because of the nature of the work of librarians
and archivists, standard practices for workflow tasks are somewhat
expected and
also helpful to explain to institutions precisely what they are doing
with Wikipedia, and I think we should consider this as GLAM-Wiki becomes more ubiquitous and expands.
So...I've been thinking about different
ways to develop some more concrete standards in GLAM-Wiki. There is of
course the Outreach GLAM page as a resource to get started, but I think a
GLAM specific section in the Wikipedia Manual of style, and a cultural
institution page template and/or templates for museum collections would be helpful. I
know there is the
Manual of Style/Visual Arts page complete with templates on different types of museum objects, which might be a nice for a GLAM-specific section. Are others interested in adding a GLAM section to the manual of style?
I also have talked to so many WiRs that
have started from the ground up in building learning resources for their
institutions-and by now there are many different 'intro to GLAM pages.' As such, it seems increasingly necessary to have a page with something
of a 'definitive' introductory learning guide for GLAMs. I want to
point people interested in this discussion to this talk page section.
Ally Crockford, WiR at the National Library of Scotland, created a quite amazing
Info Booklet that is linked to on
the bottom of this talk page, and might be a good place to start if others are
interested in developing a printable 'intro to GLAM-Wiki' resource that is general enough to provide a guide for any cultural institution, and public enough on the GLAM pages to be picked up by new institutions and WiRs.Continue the talk there if you like.
...I
would even be interested in developing these info booklets for
different types of libraries- or having different sections in the Info
Book addressing different types of libraries. In my experience,
consulting with a public library about what they can do with Wikipedia
is vastly different than consulting with a museum library, and they have
different concerns regarding the materials the copyright concerns,
types of materials to put online, and events organizing.
If you are interested in talking about ways to develop more standards for GLAM-Wiki perhaps we could do some sort of webinar or group chat in the future?