2017 European GLAMwiki Coordinators meeting
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris. 16-17th February, 2017
The Challenge: Many European Wikimedia affiliates are actively involved in GLAM activities, but rarely do we work together. Following from the 2015 edition, this two-day meeting is to share skills and best practices, coordinate projects, and consolidate connections between parts of our movement.
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Program
Wednesday 15th
- 7:30 pm Dinner at Le Cabanon de la Butte, 6 Rue Lamarck,75018,Paris
Thursday 16th
- UNESCO HQ, arrival by the main entrance, unless stated meetings are held in Room V. PLEASE BRING PHOTO I.D WITH YOU
| Time | Session | Details |
| 9:00 | Arrival | Security (similar to airport with metal detector and xray of bags), get badges, tea and coffee outside Room V |
| 10:00-10:30 | Tour of UNESCO | Tour of UNESCO in English, details available here http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/about-us/where-we-are/visit-us/ |
| 10:30 | Welcome | Welcome by UNESCO staff and organisers |
| 10:50-11:30 | Briefings/Lightning talks
40 mins, 6 mins each, 6 slots |
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| 11:30 - 11.45 | Break | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Lightning talks
45 mins, 6 mins each 7 slots |
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| 12:30 - 1pm | Europeana | Europeana 14-18 project + the Challenge, Europeana Art, Transcribathon. Ad Pollé, Europeana Senior UGC project coordinator (Ad Pollé & Liam Wyatt) Links: 1 2 |
| 1pm - 2:00 | Lunch (UNESCO canteen, 7th floor), does not accept card payments, cash machine is available next to the UNESCO book shop) | |
| 2:00 - 3:15 | Workflows & Documentation | Mapping GLAM project workflows & documentation. Where is it, what is missing, what is duplicated? (Stuart Prior, Axel Pettersson)
Goal: Develop “project menu” with known documentation mapped to project options in GLAM and other institutional partnerships. See also: Wikimedia Resource Centre |
| 3.15 - 3.30 | Break | |
| 3:30 - 4:45 | Parallel workshops:
A - WMF grants B - Structured data on Commons |
Room V: Methods for improving Grant writing/reporting. WMF APG/SimpleAPG changes, systems, advice (Delphine Ménard)
Goal: Identify grant programs for different GLAM projects, work on necessary backbone information for successful grant writing and reporting. Room III: GLAMwiki for Structured data on Commons & Wikidata future (Alex Stinson) Goal: Identify current challenges for GLAM upload projects and digital content projects, identify pain points that need attention, can be communicated to Structured Data on Commons Team.Doc for collaboration |
| 4:45 - 5:45 | US GLAM Wiki + Impact of Open Cultural Heritage+ Fail Fest | The perspective from US GLAM-Wiki (Effie Kapsalis, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 30 min., pdf here) + Fail Fest! (30 min.)
Details on Fail Fest: One of my biggest career failures was thinking everyone would embrace open cultural heritage. I will tell you that sad tale, what I learned from it, and invite you to do the same in 5 minutes. More guidelines on Fail Fest presentations here. If you have slides, please email me them by COB Wednesday (respond to email I sent), or post a link on my talk page.
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| 5:45-6:00 | Close | What we learned; What’s happening tomorrow |
| 7:30 | Dinner | Le Twickenham, 68 Boulevard Saint-Germain,75005,Paris |
Friday 17th
- UNESCO HQ, arrival by the main entrance, unless stated meetings are held in Room 7. PLEASE BRING PHOTO I.D WITH YOU
| Time | Session | Details |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Welcome | What we are going to do today |
| 9:15 - 10: 15 | Lightning talk
1 hour, 6 mins each, 10 sessions |
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| 10:15 - 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Outcomes, Metrics and Measuring | What is our impact? What are we measuring? How are we collecting that data? What are the metrics which GLAMs want? (Barbara Fischer, Ilario Valdelli) as intro check this presentation. etherpad to collect your input. Wikimedia CH presentation |
| 11:30 - 12:45 | Tools demonstrations (20 mins each) |
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| 12:45 - 1:45 | Lunch (UNESCO canteen, 7th floor), does not accept card payments, cash machine is available next to the UNESCO book shop) | |
| 1:45 - 2:45 | Parallel:
Room A - Training external professionals Room B - Metadata standards |
Room V: How to teach open licensing? As a professional development course for GLAMs including Wikipedia published by UNESCO (John Cummings)
UNESCO currently produces an Open Access Professional Development Course (open licensing) for researchers and librarians. These resources are currently being redeveloped as interactive online courses.. We would like to explore providing a version for Galleries, Museums and Archives professionals and provide information on Wikimedia within the modules. |
| 2:45 - 3:45 | Parallel:
A - UNESCO World Network B - Transferring skills to Wikimedia communities |
Room V: To help further wide adoption and understanding of open licenses it is proposed UNESCO create a World Network of organisations and practitioners involved in open licensing. This would including badging for different kinds of members e.g organisations who produce open license content and expert organisations who research and facilitate open licensing. (John Cummings)
Room III: How do experienced GLAM organizers transfer skill and capacity in developing GLAM partnerships to new or potential GLAM-Wiki program leaders? What are the barriers? What are the must-know tools/skills? (Alex & Alex) Goal: Identify potential skills, capacities, and focuses we could be transferring to other communities (including through venues like Learning Days, Wikimedia conference, Wikimania, and GLAM conference?) and through documentation |
| 3:45 - 4:00 | Break | |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | 2017/18 group activities | Agreeing on joint activities for the next 18 months. e.g. 2018 European Year of Cultural heritage potential projects; WLM; WLE; End of WWI centenary (Liam Wyatt) |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Wrap-up | Conclusions, agreed ‘to-do’ tasks, scheduling workshops for Saturday. Including pitches for workshops |
| 7:30 | Dinner | Bistro Burger Montparnasse, 53 Boulevard du Montparnasse,75006,Paris |
Saturday 18th
- Wikimédia France offices
| Time | Session | Details |
| 9:00 | Unconference:
Practical training & Workshops |
Workshop options:
Options include Practical training for
ComeOn uploader WikidataQueryService / SPARQL Redesigned Global Metrics process Opening branches of The Wikipedia Library GLAM Wiki Toolset |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch hosted By WM-France | |
| 2-3:30 | Visit of the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac | |
Attendees
Hosts
- UNESCO: John Cummings
- Europeana: Wittylama/Liam Wyatt
Affiliate Representatives
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Invited Guests
- WMF: Astinson (WMF)/Alex Stinson & Delphine Ménard/Delphine (WMF)
- Ad Pollé/EuropeanAd
- Histropedia: Navino Evans/NavinoEvans
- Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision / Open Cultuur Data: Maarten Brinkerink/Mbrinkerink
- Marco Trovatello, European Space Agency
| Invited attendees are each the representative of a European Wikimedia affiliate organisation who have responsibility for coordinating GLAM activities. |
| Attendees will primarily be Chapter-staff, but also can include designated volunteers or board members - also of Thematic Orgs or User Groups. Generally this will be 1 per affiliate, but in some affiliates the role might be shared. |
| GLAMwiki Coordinators from non-European Wikimedia affiliates are also welcome to attend and participate if they wish. |
| As a "functionaries meeting", the cost of travel and accommodation in Paris is at the affiliates' expense. A grant request to the WMF to fund several scholarships from non-Annual Plan affiliates was approved and 7 scholarships offered. |
