Title of session: GLAM CSI - Documenting the user stories of Wikimedia contribution from GLAM Wiki efforts and content partnerships
Session description: Help us document user stories of content partnerships
In 2024, the GLAM CSI project was launched to assess the contribution pipeline in the Wikimedia technical infrastructure for supporting cultural and heritage partnerships and projects.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_CSI
A major end goal is to document user stories of those in the GLAM-Wiki and OpenGLAM sector and what technical needs and challenges they face when looking to contribute and engage with the Wikimedia ecosystem. This session presents the project and its approach to documenting user stories of Hackathon attendees, from Commons contribution at scale to enriching metadata to synchronizing Wikidata via roundtripping to supporting new file formats.
In these sessions, we will introduce some key user stories (image contribution, metadata enrichment, and data reconciliation) and encourage attendees to help document more in order to help inform future directions for Wikimedia technical development and support. The effort is being led by Andrew Lih, as part of a grant operated by the Smithsonian Institution.
Username for contact: User:Fuzheado
Session duration (25 or 50 min): 50 minutes
Session type (presentation, workshop, discussion, etc.): presentation and workshop (Day 1 presentation, and workshops follow)
Language of session (English, Arabic, etc.): English
Prerequisites (some Python, etc.): None
Any other details to share?: Bring your user stories and experiences.
Interested? Add your username below:
Notes from session:
User stories wanted: the GLAM CSI project
Date and time: 2024-05-03 11:00
Relevant links
- Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T360474
- Session slides:
Presenter
User:Fuzheado)
Wkimedian at Large at the Smithsonian
Based in Washington DC
Olga - Designer at the Wikimedia Foundation
Participants
Notes
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_CSI
GLAM is more than galleries libraries art and museums
just has to be related to mass contributions
survey - https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/985159?lang=en
what kind of projects are you interested in
what kind of tools do you use
can fill it out multiple times if you work with different viewpoints
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_CSI#Background
good place to start to get a history
There is more demand now than we can meet
Documentation isnt the best
there isn't a one stop shop to find information
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Linked_open_data_workflow
one table to show major tools but this is not complete
end of 2022 a bunch of metric tools stopped working
at wikiconference north america brainstorming happened
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wcna-2023-glam-brainstorming.jpg
Example user stories
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_CSI/Sample_user_story
Create a persona, someone you can empthasize with in the above example Alex
Create a statement
As [person] I want to [do something]
want to document stories that are happening
- image uploading
- reconcilliation
I have a list of 100 women writers in my database do you have them too
- mobile user story
In Africa they have an editaton based on mobile use
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:ISA_Tool
https://isa.toolforge.org/
ISA was broken for ~6months and couldn't find someone to fix it
since it wasn't documented well it was hard to figure out how much it was used
ideas for more stories
- wikibase
- sdc structured data on commons
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseMediaInfo
how to see extensions on commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Version
Date and time: May 4th / 11:00
Session 2 on GLAM CSI Project
Survey: https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/985159?lang=en
Questions
Do you have an internal number of user stories? 5 - 7 really good representative stories that can cover different working methods, tools, etc
Do you think of the user groups as people that connect with the org as a whole or per sectors divided by type of content?
Example: I love the idea of having 5 main user stories that work as an entry for other user stories. Having them linked as other examples or related stories to the main ones we choose.
What is the consideration, why would you start uploading your images to wikimedia projects? How do we connect this to what they do? How can we connect them to this workflow?
The persona part is very interesting, we give the reasons why. One of the goals is to increase public engagement by connecting with one stakeholder that causes a "domino effect" with others.
How do we get to the front page?
Meta > GLAM CSI in the search box
Is there a person responsible for GLAM hubs?
Wikimedia Affiliate Portal where you can check for affiliates that work for GLAM, there you can see who was projects there
Education and GLAM have officers or high positions, we're heavy in Europe, there is a bimonthly meeting here. Brazil works a lot with those hubs.
Chapters like New York and Washington do 80% GLAM work, it's hard to tell how many people are involved in that work because it can be the focus but there are not official namings
33 affiliates