Commons:GLAMToolset project

The GLAMwiki toolset project is a collaboration between Wikimedia Nederland, Wikimedia UK, Wikimedia France, Wikimedia CH (Switzerland) and Europeana. The goal of the project is to provide a set of tools to make batch uploads of GLAM content in Wikimedia Commons as easy as possible. The additional tools have to make sure that re-use can easily be tracked; and that Commons materials can easily be integrated back into the collection of the original GLAM or even other GLAMs.

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Project setup and members

Europeana created a team of developers and metadata expert to work on this project. The project is run using a scrum setup with sprints of three weeks. We are using an Assembla space to manage this project.

Below is a list of project members who are also active on Wikimedia projects.

• David Haskiya as project lead
• Dan Entous as senior developer
• Maarten Zeinstra as senior developer/analyst

Goal 1: GLAM Upload System

Content uploading from GLAMs to Wikimedia is currently a manual, tedious and difficult process. To assist and encourage GLAMs to share content with Wikimedia Commons an upload system will be developed that will:

• Support the major metadata standards and their mappings to Wikimedia Commons templates
• Allow user friendly creation of mappings between GLAM metadata templates to Wikimedia Commons templates
• Allow user friendly creation of partnership templates for proper attribution
• Allow GLAMs uploading content to Wikimedia Commons to preview them prior to final upload and publication
• Allow Europeana data providers to cross-publish their (Open) content to both Europeana and Wikimedia Commons
• Have a plug-in architecture allowing third-party developers to create provider API and format specific plug-ins or plug-ins for specific processes e.g. public domain checking or file transformation
• Allow for batch export and download of specific GLAM-collections from Wikimedia Commons with metadata output in standard GLAM metadata formats
• Be able to monitor updates and changes in the uploaded content and metadata and download the changes for re-integration at source
• Have the necessary hooks to communicate with the MediaWiki backend for usage statistics/data analytics
• The system web pages will contain clear attribution to Europeana
• The project aims to conform to the best practices and standards for development of MediaWiki as defined by the Wikimedia community

GWToolset Website

http://gwtoolset.wmflabs.org/

Technical Architecture

Technical Architecture

Extension

GWToolset Extension

Code Repositories

Gerrit repository for the extension
Github repository for the extension

Goal 2: Report on requirements for usage and re-usage statistics for GLAM content

Existing tools for GLAM metrics and statistics don’t fulfil all the needs for metrics from GLAMs. As part of this project a full report will be written on GLAM needs of usage statistics and the desired tool support for those needs.

The research for this report includes:

• Interviews Curators and collection managers to form the basis of business requirements
• Interviews Wikipedians who have liaised with GLAMs to form the basis of business requirements
• Interviews the Wikimedia Foundation Data Analytics team to get a technical understanding of the affordances offered by the statistics back-end
• Evaluates existing tools for statistics.
• Developing a mock-up prototype of a GLAM usage statistics dashboard

Sprints

A sprint is the basic unit of development in Scrum. Sprints last between one week and one month, and are a "timeboxed" (i.e. restricted to a specific duration) effort of a constant length. In this project we choose for a duration of three weeks.

• Sprint 9

• Sprint 8

• Sprint 7

• Sprint 6

• Sprint 5

• Sprint 4

• Sprint 3

• Sprint 2 Report

• Sprint 1 Report ( 2012 September 1 - 2012 September 24 )

Multimedia

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  A presentation on the project given by David Haskiya at GLAMcamp Amsterdam on Dec 2, 2011.

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  Attendees of GLAMcamp Amsterdam were asked to give feedback on the project.

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  A video of a presentation given on the project at GLAMcamp Amsterdam.

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  This project initiation document outlines the goals of the project and the means Europeana would take to meet them.

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  Slides from the Wikimania 2012 presentation on the Toolset Project.

A talk was given on the project at Wikimania 2012.

Community Outreach Plan

We need support and feedback from Wikimedians and GLAMs to make the GLAM Wiki Toolset a success.

Please take a look at our GLAM Wiki Toolset Outreach Page.

Contact

Please contact us if you have any remarks or questions via the discussion page: GLAM Wiki Toolset Discussion Page

Or go to our feedback form and leave a note.

Mailinglist

The mailingslist about this project can be found here