Wikidata:WikidataCon 2017/Notes/GLAM meetup

Title: GLAM meetup

Attendees

Name or username

Magnus Manske

Amanda Bittaker

Sandra Fauconnier / User:Spinster and User:SandraF (WMF)

Nicolas VIGNERON (Wikisource)

Susanna

Benoit / Shonagon (Crotos Guy)

Pawel / Yarl

Andy Mabbett - User:Pigsonthewing

Philipp Geisler

Jane Darnel

Shani Evenstein

Kubof

Stephan Bartholmei

Liam Wyatt

Mike Peel

Jason Evans (Welsh guy)

Ewan McAndrew

Martin

Andrew Lih

Ben

Armine

Maarten Dammers (User:Multichill)

User:Gamaliel

Stacy Allison-Cassin

Navino Evans (histropedia)

Sean McBirnie (histropedia)

Anika

(the french guy who look like JeanFred but is not...)

Ramsey

Collaborative notes of the session

Data donation systems

Tools

How to go from prototype to something that is maintained

What role should the Foundation play in this?

Future iteration of Mix'n'Match

Where should we be in 1 year's time?

GLAM track in every event = fantastic

Wikimania will also have GLAM track.

GLAM-wiki conf in Israel in October: 13-15 October

There will be many questions about Wikidata

Shani: Survey distributed about GLAMwiki conf (13-15 October 2018, in Israel). There will be a committee with people from the community, with regular process of submission.

Shani helps WMIL to include wishes like Structured Commons, tools... the more feedback, the better!

There's an initial fund from outside the movement.

Stephan: grow skills, make sure that we get more skilled people who work with Wikidata in GLAM

Maarten : WD is already established but we have to go outside our community, shouldn't we go to their conferences? we should promote the openaccess there! One on one partnership doesn't scale.

Shani agrees and speaks about Education/Med/Library user groups. GLAM community has matured, but we don't have a structure to deal with global needs. Can we revisit this idea, to scale what we do, get more funding?

Ben: formulating subfocuses? e.g. structured data and GLAM. Maybe other spaces can have their own structure too

Andrew Lih: welcomes feedback to 1 page intro wd:1 1 page intro (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:In_one_page)

Are being translated (Hebrew, Dutch: URLs?), please add translation in you language!

Liam: their own cultural orgs are not being included (e.g. zoos, learning centers...)

Chapters and user group, how to support, and it's not a remplacement.

Navino: finding easy solution and tools, not having to learn Wikitext for asking a simple question.

Earlier proposal for a GLAM user group: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_GLAM_User_Group

We should build on that!

Mike / Andrew: is this what we need? GLAM-US usergroup. GLAM is best local?

Maarten : WLM works with small groups, we try to keep it slim, small and simple. Realy of information inside the group.

(Rob) On the fence about the 'user group' concept, it's a broad idea, is there a call for a 'user group' ?

Amanda: make lists of what user groups can do, and what they can't

Shani: a user group can make sure that we can have committees, one that deals with infrastructure, another that deals with newcomers, etc... It doesn't have to be big. Focus group of what we put on our agenda globally.

Ramsey introduces himself! Product manager for multimedia team / structured Commons. He listens to our complaints and hopes we'll be happy next year (not angry).

Liam: Wikimania: please respond to the theme of the conference and submit proposals related to Wikidata and GLAM

Gaps of content, underrepresented groups...

Susanna Right to be remembered: data perspective and GLAM perspective

Decolonializing archives; oral history

Shani: we can be better in working with likeminded groups in our own community: education, art+feminism, women in red