Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Building a knowledge repository for cultural heritage post-earthquake disaster in southeast Türkiye. (ID: 22163267)
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Applicant Details edit
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- Organization
Dijital Kültürel Miras Ağı
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Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Building a knowledge repository for cultural heritage post-earthquake disaster in southeast Türkiye.
- Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)
Local
- Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
It covers the region that took place in 11 provinces of Turkey on February 6. These cities; Hatay, Kahramanmaras, Gaziantep, Elazıg, Osmaniye, Adıyaman, Sanlıurfa, Diyarbakır, Malatya, Kilis, Adana
- R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dijitalkulturelmiras/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Dijital-K%C3%BClt%C3%BCrel-Miras/pfbid0nfbsdJzcuvUX2RgKtN232z3LDecDWwfQybhGs9Kj6mx9eTcseAQZkrZFEkehLJSfl/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dkulturelmiras Linkedın: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dijitalkulturelmiras/ Website: https://dijitalkulturelmiras.com/ wiki page: https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedi:GLAM/Dijital_K%C3%BClt%C3%BCrel_Miras_A%C4%9F%C4%B1
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
On February 6th, 2023 an earthquake struck Kahramanmaraş and surrounding cities in southeastern Turkey, including Adana, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Şanlıurfa. The earthquake also affected parts of Syria. This region is known for its rich historic and archaeological significance, as well as its tangible and intangible heritage elements. The earthquake damaged a large number of cultural heritage sites, monuments as well as historic buildings, libraries and museums. The earthquake was followed by a flood disaster on the 13th of March which further damaged the museum building in Urfa. This project first and foremost aims at collecting the knowledge resources related to the cultural heritage in the region including ancient sites, excavation sites, monuments, historic buildings (e.g. mosques, synagogues) and institutions (GLAM: Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). In order to achieve that, we would like to work together with internet users including Wikimedians in order to gather data. The second aim of the project is to raise awareness on the significance of open knowledge for the people working in this field and encouraging them to contribute to Wiki projects using the sources in the repository through contributing to disaster relief. The knowledge of many of those cultural assets are not covered well in Wikimedia projects if they have been covered at all. To address this, we're creating a resource repository to help volunteers add missing information to Wikimedia projects especially in Turkish, particularly on Wikidata, Commons and Wikipedia. It also aims at training GLAM contributors about open knowledge and encouraging them to share their resources through Wikimedia projects. This project is especially important to increase awareness of Wikimedia projects and contributions among people in the GLAM field in Türkiye and create a platform in which knowledge on destroyed heritage values.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Our aim is to gather information on the pre-earthquake state of cultural assets in the region by creating a repository of resources about the cultural heritage and GLAM institutions in the 11 cities and contribute to the completion of missing data on existing Wikimedia projects by building skills to add relevant information on Wikimedia projects. The best strategy to achieve this is to reach as many people as possible through workshops/meetings in collaboration with CC Türkiye where the importance of open data and CC licenses will be explained, awareness about Wikimedia and platforms to share knowledge on the earthquake area will be raised. The target groups of the project are institutions such as ÜNAK (University and Research Librarians’ Association), TKD (Turkish Librarians' Association, ANKOS (Anatolian University Libraries Consortium), Müzeder (Museum Professionals Association) or research institutes such as ANAMED (Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations), BIAA (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara ), ARIT (The American Research Institute in Turkey, DAI (German Archeological Institute) to increase awareness about Wikimedia and open data also to create knowledge areas to share their information from the earthquake area. For this project, the team decided not to make any demands from the local experts (e.g. librarians and museum professionals), because they are going through immense losses and are reorganizing their lives.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
Creating a repository of resources strategy involves following activities;
- preparing list of organizations that will be contacted;
- organizing online talks and in person visits to GLAM institutions
- creating a list of assets, sites and libraries, museums in order to create and improve the repository Wiki page.
- preparing excel lists with relevant metadata information with the help of archivists.
- organization and verification of information on cultural assets, sites, libraries and museums for the region with the help of contacted stakeholders (e.g. the organizations mentioned in section 2. and one civil society from the region HAYAP (Hatay Yeniden Ayakta Platformu).
Building skills in adding the relevant knowledge to Wikimedia projects involves four activities:
- two online edit-a-thons
- two in person edit-a-thons at Ankara and Istanbul.
We planned edit-a-thons as training activities followed by hands-on sessions for contributing to Wiki projects on the topic. The two cities where most of the organizations that will be contacted for the repository are based are Istanbul and Ankara therefore we planned in person activities in these cities. We also planned online activities which participants across the country could join. At the same time, we are thinking of doing these edit-a-thons, especially with university students. For example, we can do edit-a-thons with METU Graduate School of Social Sciences Settlement Archaeology students.
- 4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.
Other
- Cultural heritage and natural disaster
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
User: seraksin (Project Management) Is an archaeologist and got a PhD from Information and Records Management Department at Ankara University. Has experience in the digital cultural heritage field for more than 20 years. Is a Wikipedian and has been adding and editing contents for archaeology and cultural heritage in Wikimedia. Has project management expertise too. Will be responsible for managing and coordinating this project. Is one of the founders of the Digital Cultural Heritage Network in Türkiye.
User: Atreju.x (Project Administrator) Is a librarian and archaeologist. Worked on various European Union projects. At the same time, is writing a master’s thesis. The thesis focuses on Wikipedia and cultural heritage. Is a member of the Digital Cultural Heritage Network in Türkiye.
User: Aslibtr (Event Trainer and Facilitator) Is an Information and Records Management graduate and works as a Project Coordinator in Erasmus+ projects. Has experience in coordination and organizing activities, events etc. Will help organize the meetings and editathons in this project. Will also work as an archivist in this project to create the preliminary data for editathons. This preliminary data will be the basis for Wikidata creation and editing tasks. Is a member of the Digital Cultural Heritage Network in Türkiye. Both Atreju.x and Aslibtr are also responsible for social media studies and project coordination, i.e. social media announcements, event posters, communication organization etc.
User: ArchaeoData. Is Wikipedian for a long time and has expertise in the digital cultural heritage field, will help to create queries in Wikidata.
User: Akdoganzeynep is Wikipedian and got a Phd in the information and records management field. Also has experience organizing events and project management. Will support event and meeting organization and project administrative work.
In the Digital Cultural Heritage Network (Dijital Kültürel Miras Ağı-DKM) several members will contribute to this project for dissemination and organization of activities. Most of the members are also connected with universities and NGO’s so they will also help to communicate with the relevant stakeholders. Digital Cultural Heritage Network will also communicate with WMTR and WMTR will provide trainer support for editathons. CC TR is another important community for open access in Türkiye and they will also come and give information about open access and CC license in this project.
- 6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Geography, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance), Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
Cultural institutions and heritage at 11 cities hit by the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake in Türkiye are poorly covered by Wikimedia projects. The project supports efforts to fill the gap now and, in the future, as it provides a resource repository that could be used in developing content. Trainings and editathons will increase the awareness and capacity of citizen science activities about cultural heritage both for students and cultural heritage professionals and scholars.
- 7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.
Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Not applicable
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities?
Target participants are GLAM professionals and relevant stakeholders, university students across Türkiye and cultural heritage professionals. Our team consists of members of Dijital Kültürel Miras Ağı (Digital Cultural Heritage Network)* and includes some volunteers, experts and students working on recording and protecting digital cultural heritage. The group will contact the target groups using their connections from vocational and student associations. With this project we will be able to reach students, women and volunteers who are working for the cultural sector. The organizations mentioned in section 2, NGO’s representatives will also benefit from this project. During the project we will organize online and in person meetings and edit-a-thons to engage with partners and visit several institutes. After the activities with this project we can also continue to organize online meetings and continue to discuss. Our volunteers can continue to add and edit content to Wikimedia and we can make announcements via our social media in order to continue to interact between participants.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
Project team knows each other, has been working together voluntarily for several years. We will create a safe and friendly space for team members, participants within the project and not allow discrimination.There will be a facilitator throughout the project in person meetings.In this way we will provide friendly space for people with disabilities and fewer opportunities.Online meetings, editathons will also allow us to give opportunities to connect with people not living in Ankara and Istanbul.
- 11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.
The team discussed this project with the local user group (Wikimedia Community User Group Türkiye). The user group will be providing support for the edit-a-thons. Experienced Wikimedians will give training for the participants of the events.
- 12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?
No
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- N/A
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- N/A
- 13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
Yes
- 13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
WMTR: Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey: To get training and organize edit-a-thons. MUZEDER: Museum Association: Communication and reach museum professionals CCTR: For Copyrights: To get training. HAYAP: Hatay Yeniden Ayakta Platformu: For Hatay region cultural inventory information ÜNAK: University and Research Librarians’ Association: That will assist in accessing library data in the region and communication with librarians. METU: Graduate School of Social Sciences Settlement Archaeology: To get communicating with students.
- 14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.
Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Identify Topics for Impact
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
- Increase our group capacity about communication and Wikimedia: We would like to increase our group capacity in order to make collaboration with GLAM institutions and several NGO’s in Türkiye working for cultural heritage.
- Increase communication and open knowledge btw GLAM organizations & NGO’s: It would be better to share our expertise for cultural heritage and information management for digital cultural heritage and also increase awareness about open data, Wikimedia and CC/copyrights.
- Improve education for GLAM sector: We would like to sustain education or lifelong learning for cultural heritage professionals
- Increase new editors and contributors: We would like to increase the possibility of further collaborations and earning new contributions. Existing Wikimedians will be trainer for this project and and cultural heritage related people will learn about new skills e.g. Wikimedians.
- 16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Edit-a-thons online | Apart from the in-person edit-a-thons, we also wanted to provide opportunities for people living in different cities. | 2 |
| Edit-a-thons in person | We have planned two in-person edit-a-thons in Ankara and Istanbul. In edit-a-thons, that we will both online and in-person, we want to focus on the number of female participants in the distribution of contributes. | 2 |
| Project meetings | We want to raise awareness about the project we will realize by telling the GLAM institutions. | 2 |
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- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | We think that will reach 40 editors with online and in-person edit-a-thons. In addition we think that the Wikipedia awareness of 15 cultural heritage-memory institutions will be created in the two meetings to be held with the institutions. | 40 |
| Number of editors | 40 person within the scope of edit-a-thons; in addition we will reach 47 person with coordinators, trainers and facilitators. | 47 |
| Number of organizers | 2 coordinator , 3 trainers, 2 facilitators | 7 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikidata | There are many cultural memory institutions such as heritgae sites, libraries and museums in the region where the earthquake took place. It is very difficult to gain access to these institutions and heritage sites when one wants to examine them. All data is distributed and unrelated to each other. There are many places where data entry can be made but it is thought that 400 entries will be made. | 400 |
| Wikipedia | edit:200 and new page:25 added | 225 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Sharing images of destroyed or undamaged historical structures, statues etc. in the region. | 250 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
This project focus on not necessarily directly editing Wikimedia projects but creating sources repository to be used by contributors to Wikimedia projects and training cultural heritage practitioners and museum professionals about contributing.
- 18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.
After the meetings and edit-a-thons we will make online meetings with the GLAM and NGOS participants and in order to learn their opinion after events;
- Number of participants to edit-a-thons
- We will disseminate the results and events via social media and use relevant hashtags. Queries will be prepared to measure the Wikidata entries for GLAM sector e.g. Gaziantep Libraries.
We will have a list for cultural heritage for the region. We can check wikicommons image numbers after the project and we can measure the impact of the project.
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
99000 TRY
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
4963.56 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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