[Foundation-l] GLAM-WIKI report

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 09:30:36 UTC 2009


Hoi,
We do have those kinds of statistics already.. aggregating is important
because such an overall numbers can be considered a KPI while an individual
statistic is interesting.

I learned that KPI is key performance indicator ... :) I still have to think
what the acronym is there for
Thanks,
      GerardM

2009/8/13 John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no>

> Aggregated statistics for a complete GLAM is interesting, but it seems
> like they ask about usage stats and metadata about individual items.
>
> For example it is _very_ interesting that a otherwise rather anonymous
> photo from 1890 from the GallriNOR-collection is used in an article
> about Oat that has 1100 page views each day at English Wikipedia. (From
> memory, hopefully the correct article) This is probably several orders
> more than their own traffic on that photo.
>
> John
>
> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > Combine this with aggregated statistics for a particular GLAM and do this
> > for any GLAM we have material for. This is not to show the most important
> > GLAM but it is to  help them realise and recognise for themselves and for
> > their sponsors that we contribute to their social relevance. It helps us
> > argue why improved annotations will increase traffic to their website.
> >
> > It is absolutely important not to make a competition out of these
> statistics
> > because GLAMS cannot be compared. What is important is that we contribute
> to
> > the visibility of a GLAM and its collection. It is obvious why these
> > statistics have to be double checked, because it will be a vital argument
> in
> > releasing material to us and in building a relationship.
> > Thanks,
> >       Gerard
> >
> > 2009/8/13 John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no>
> >
> >> I stumbled upon this too during discussions with institutions in Norway,
> >> it seems like the number of times some material is accessed is a very
> >> interesting selling point. It is although not necessary to store the
> >> image any specific place for this, it is the actual statistics that is
> >> interesting.
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> >>> Hoi,
> >>> Not necessarily. One acronym I learned was KPI, when a GLAM has as a
> key
> >>> performance indicator the number of times a picture is actually
> accessed,
> >> it
> >>> may affect the amount of subsidy they get. There is no reason why an
> >> image
> >>> cannot be made available to the people who want that image on their
> hard
> >>> drive.
> >>>
> >>> So I mean really there may be more to it.
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>       GerardM
> >>>
> >>> 2009/8/12 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
> >>>
> >>>> 2009/8/12 Kat Walsh <kat at mindspillage.org>:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I'm not sure what the technical challenges you had in mind are, but I
> >>>>> can think of plenty of reasons to argue against hotlinking and I
> don't
> >>>>> want to let the point slip by. A few:
> >>>> The ones who want hotlinking want it as a way of making the images not
> >>>> free. l mean, really.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> - d.
> >>>>
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