On 8/13/09, Andrew Turvey <andrewrtur...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > ----- "Mathias Schindler" <mathias.schind...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Tim Starling<tstarl...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > > > > There is a need for bulk upload tools to be better advertised and more > > > readily accessible. One of the institutions reported paying students to > > > upload hundreds of photos to commons via the usual web-based UI, but > > > found it to be too time-consuming and expensive to consider on a large > > > scale. > > > > There is an upcoming tool from the usual suspects at Wikimedia that > > might be of interest to you and the GLAM people. > > > > > Look forward to this? Do you know what the expected time line is and where > we can get more information? > > Thanks
All of the reporting on the event that has been done so far is being collated at the event page: http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/GLAM There is a list of all of the press reports, subsequent blog posts, and an export of the #GLAM-WIKI hashtag feed from twitter. Very soon all of the videos from the presentations will be uploaded too. Our hosts, the Australian War Memorial, were kind enough to also professionally film all the presentations :-) These all indicate a large range of issues that were raised and, even if they cannot be acted upon directly (like the hotlinking idea) they are now 'floating around'. I encourage you to read the aforementioned blog posts and keep an eye out for some of the videos. The presentation slides are slowly being added too. Moreover, I believe the most immediate benefit of this event is the fact that something like the UK-NPG controversy would not happen in Australia. Even though the two communities don't necessarily agree on how to 'move forward together' this event has 'taken the heat' out of the debate and moved it to a position of collaboration rather than antagonism. And, as Mathias said, the Australian Copyright Council presentation was fantastic - he did more in 5 minutes to undermine his own pro-restriction position than we could have done in 6 months. Comments in the twitter stream (page 41 of the feed<http://wikimedia.org.au/w/images/5/52/GLAM-WIKI_twitter_hashtag_transcript.pdf>) from the GLAM sector themselves (!) were scathing. There will be a video of this soon enough. In the medium-longer term there are many specific ideas/tools/methods that were raised to make the GLAM and Wiki communities more easily work together. This report "the recommendations list" is currently being compiled and will be released in a week. It lists some specific recommendations that each community could act upon and is divided up into the four streams of the conference - Technology, Law, Education and Business - and is in two columns - from GLAM to Wiki and from Wiki to GLAM. This is a two-way conversation after all, not simply us just preaching to them. I will be presenting these recommendations in my timeslot at Wikimania in a couple of weeks too. I personally hope that we can demonstrate our goodwill towards the cultural sector (not just in Australia, but globally - they have equivalent needs all over the world) by attempting to achieve some of their requests. In return this would give our requests to the GLAM sector greater weight because we had proved our bona fides. Just as one example, the GLAM sector would like to be able to easily access statistics on how their collections are being used in Wikimedia projects (otherwise they can't report to their management with strong numbers about the benefit of collaboration). Did you know (apparently) there is a 2 year waiting list for cultural institutions to join the Flickr Commons project ?? If we are able to provide the services that Flickr offers - e.g. easy mass uploading and good data reporting on usage - then they will be approaching us! I do know there are a couple of institutions that attended GLAM-WIKI are now having super-secret internal debates about making some sort of announcement of collaboration with Wikimedia (and open-access principles more generally) but this is not an easy process for them. The 170 attendees at GLAM-WIKI were, as Tim said, self selected (list of institutions here<http://www.wittylama.com/2009/07/246/>). Now we need to assist those people in their talks with their colleagues - and there are moves afoot to do just that. I'll report more on these talks when I can... All in all, a very successful event IMHO if for no other reason than it demonstrated that the Wikimedia community *cares* about their POV and expertise - and now they are telling their colleagues worldwide that "those Wiki people are people too" :-) I encourage other chapters and organised communities to start talking with their local/national cultural sector - but don't expect it to be a quick or easy process. It is not one that can be measured in number-of-photographs-released-per-day. Ultimately, it is about how we can share resources/expertise to fulfill the common parts of our mission statements and that can manifest itself in many different ways. Sincerely, Liam [[witty lama]], convener of GLAM-WIKI _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
