What’s new in GLAM?Liam Wyatt / @Wittylama / [[user:Wittylama]]

#WMCEE2016 #GLAMWIKIDilijan, Armenia

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The following are merely my opinions. I ENCOURAGE suggestions and additions

Background: Why?

• Often a start local community external collaborations. Pride, legitimacy, focus.

• “We’re doing the same thing, for the same reason, for the same people, often in the same medium, in a different way. Let’s do it together.”

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GLAM_lightpainting.jpg

Definitional changes

zoos

botanical gardens

sports

medicine

higher education

Our “pitch” has changed. Wikipedia Commons Wikidata

broadcasters

Corporate archives

What about Wikisource? Wiktionary?

ethnographic documentation projects

Metrics changes

• Global metrics Metrics Library• 3 standard + 2 user-defined grant metrics• “# participants, # newly registered, #pages

created/improved aggregated

•https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Redesigning_Global_Metrics_%26_its_support/

Outcome

Determine the goal, measure against THAT goal

Mass upload

• ComeOn• Pattypan• GLAMWikiToolset

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_tools

Libraries

• WikiCite – Structured citation data!• The Wikipedia Library

– Now with support from IFLA

• 1Lib1Ref (‘citation hunt’; hashtags)• Catalonia Library Network• Reference libraries• User:Sadads Astinson (WMF)

Tours -> Content

• “behind the scenes” → Carpathian project • Transcribing; Scanning (e.g. Argentina)• OSM…

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22A_Goral_Wedding%22_at_Dom_Ludowy_Theatre_-_bride_and_groom_dancing.jpg

http://osmit-tm.wmflabs.org/project/13

Now THIS is campaign infrastructure!

Wikidatahttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/23/wikidata-glam

/ • Sum of all Paintings

– Europeana Art History Challenge– TED Challenge

• Connected Open Heritage– Visiting Tiblisi: 9-11 November

UNESCO

• MediaBank content release (coming soon)• ‘Biosphere’ project: data, images, articles• Own texts/publications• Policy emphasis on ‘open’

• Memory of the World

Time – Every document is a creature of its timePlace – The place of its creation is a key attribute of its importancePeople – The social and cultural context of its creation Subject/Theme – The subject matter may represent particular historical or intellectual developmentsForm/Style – The item may…be a key exemplar of a type of presentation, custom or mediumSocial/Community significance – The document must have an emotional hold on people who are alive today

Legal challenges

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_subject_to_Reiss_Engelhorn_Museum_lawsuit

• Reiss Engelhorn

• Prado: request for community input• FoP lobbying aerial a.k.a. “FoP 2.0”

New formats

• Dynamic maps, Wikidata lists/infoboxes• 360 photos, audio, 3D models (legal!)• Aerial (photo and video): Wiki From Above

Peace, Love & Metadata

Liam Wyatt / @Wittylama / [[user:Wittylama]]#WMCEE2016 #GLAMWIKI

Dilijan, Armenia