Summary of current trends and emerging topics in GLAM-Wiki activities. Presented at the Central & Eastern European (CEE) Wikimedians conference, August 2016

1. What’s new in GLAM?
Liam Wyatt / @Wittylama / [[user:Wittylama]]
#WMCEE2016 #GLAMWIKI
Dilijan, Armenia

2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Public_Opinion_--_April_22,_1874_(4359955260).jpg
The following are merely my opinions. I ENCOURAGE suggestions and additions

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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:Idea
Lab/Redesigning_Global_Metrics_%26_its_supp
ort/Outcome
Determine the goal, measure against THAT goal

6. Mass upload
• ComeOn
• Pattypan
• GLAMWikiToolset
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_tools

7. 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)

8. 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_T
atre_-_bride_and_groom_dancing.jpg

9. http://osmit-tm.wmflabs.org/project/13
Now THIS is campaign infrastructure!

10. Wikidata
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/23/wik
idata-glam/
• Sum of all Paintings
– Europeana Art History Challenge
– TED Challenge
• Connected Open Heritage
– Visiting Tiblisi: 9-11 November

11. 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 time
Place – The place of its creation is a key attribute of its importance
People – The social and cultural context of its creation
Subject/Theme – The subject matter may represent particular historical or intellectual developments
Form/Style – The item may…be a key exemplar of a type of presentation, custom or medium
Social/Community significance – The document must have an emotional hold on people who are alive today

12. Legal challenges
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w
iki/Category:Images_subject_to_Rei
ss_Engelhorn_Museum_lawsuit
• Reiss
Engelhorn
• Prado: request for community input
• FoP lobbying  aerial a.k.a. “FoP 2.0”

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

14. Peace, Love & Metadata
Liam Wyatt / @Wittylama / [[user:Wittylama]]
#WMCEE2016 #GLAMWIKI
Dilijan, Armenia