GLAM/Newsletter/May 2018/Contents/WMF GLAM report

This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue V, May 2018

WMF GLAM report

Recent travels; Structured Data on Commons updates

Recent travels and presentations

A group of Wikimedians (including Sandra) were invited to Yerevan, where Wikimedia Armenia organized its GLAM Forum Yerevan for local GLAM professionals. Check this month's Armenia report for a summary!

In May, Europeana held its EuropeanaTech conference, which brought together almost 300 European and worldwide GLAM professionals working on technical aspects of cultural heritage, aggregation and Linked Open Data. GLAM-Wiki and Wikidata were important themes throughout the conference. Read a longer overview in this month's Wikidata report in This Month in GLAM.

The Wikimedia Hackathon, Barcelona included Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons as a focus area. Volunteer developers and the team discussed tools around Structured Commons, first ideas for basic data modelling, and search functionalities.

Structured Data on Commons

Community consultations

A first community consultation about GLAM metadata and ontology mapping for Structured Data on Commons has concluded in early May; a summary and next steps are available on the talk page.

Until 5 June, there was also a design consultation on MediaInfo and multilingual captions for files.

Personas

Recently, the research team of the Wikimedia Foundation published four GLAM contributor personas to Commons. A persona is a fictional character that represents a specific kind of user; the GLAM personas are four typical GLAM staff members that contribute to Wikimedia Commons. These personas, developed by design research intern Niharika Ved,, can help anyone (including developers, designers, and organizers) better understand the people who contribute to Wikimedia Commons from a GLAM perspective, including their needs, and the issues and pain points they encounter. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GLAM_Personas_for_Structured_Data_on_Commons_v2.pdf

The personas are based on interview and survey responses from GLAM participants collected during the GLAM Structured Data contributor research last Fall.

IRC office hour

A new IRC office hour about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons is planned on Tuesday 19 June. More info and participation link at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours

Other going ons

Alex is still focused on documenting the processs of creating Wikipedian in Residence positions (see last month for more information). If you would like to share information about a residency that you have hosted please reach out astinsonwikimedia.org