Grants:Project/Development of a teacher training series on the contribution of TK Notices and other cultural descriptive metadata to Wikidata, as faculty and researchers build and share college-level OER.

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Development of a teacher training series on the contribution of TK Notices and other cultural descriptive metadata to Wikidata, as faculty and researchers build and share college-level OER.
summaryLocal Contexts has done exemplary work in generating Traditional Knowledge Notices (TK Notices), for purposes of grounding indigenous rights in a digital environment. MHz Curationist is being actively developed as a digital platform that aggregates Open Access cultural heritage APIs and provides editorial context that is cooperatively made. Simultaneously, we are building a platform where faculty and researchers can build and share Open Educational Resources (OER) on our site, grounded in OpenGLAM descriptive metadata schema and taxonomy guidelines using controlled Wikidata vocabulary.

We seek funding to generate teacher training in the summer of 2021 on how to use TK Notices in OER based in Wikidata-vocab, OpenGLAM metadata, micro-contributions. These workshops would be developed with the previously referenced group Local Contexts, who are indigenous data sovereignty leaders.

OpenGLAM leaders, and the Curationist team would be oriented around connecting TK Notices to Wikidata vocabulary and EduWiki resources in general. The workshops would be training teachers in how to use TK Notices, as they train students to become Wikidata contributors and users. These workshops, edited thereafter, would become OER themselves.
targetWikimedia Commons, The GLAM-wiki Community
type of grantonline programs and events
amount$25,000 USD
type of applicantorganization
granteeCurationist2021
contact• mary@mhzfoundation.org
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Project idea edit

What is the problem you're trying to solve? edit

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There are no existing TK Notice Wikidata models, so traditional knowledge represented within open knowledge is not stewarded. When faculty and researchers build college-level OER, the data they create is not easily captured in Wikidata the way it could be.

We seek to build a pilot program for a study on how to connect our metadata and OER work, in ways that build perpetual paths of collaboration between MHz Curationist and the Wikimedia Commons; this grant will aid us in producing all of the scoping materials required in order to do that. Working with Wikimedia in this way makes perfect sense because our standard contributions, our controlled vocabulary for this project, is Wikidata. Moreover, our OER concept is modeled after #EduWiki challenges and series of lesson plans.

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We seek to build a path for contribution on TK Notices and other cultural descriptive metadata, and then we seek to educate others about it, through the development of a teacher training series targeting faculty and researchers in the summer of 2021. The subject matter will cover how metadata layers can be produced and then also contributed as Wikidata. In pursuing this solution, we are taking work that we already intend to do, and build ties to Wikimedia to help the Wikimedia community solve the same problems we seek to solve.

MHz Foundation’s Curationist’s main organizational goal is to raise underrepresented knowledge in arts and culture, and in that we are natural collaborators with the Wikimedia GLAM community. We see great value in the GLAM content that exists within Wikimedia Commons. However, we strongly believe that more can be done on the metadata level to ensure that the objects that exist have more robust, diverse layers of information about them. In particular, there is a tendency in the GLAM space to have object metadata tagged with provenance data about their donation. When there is a great opportunity to add additional layers that recontextualize the digital cultural heritage objects within, for instance, its African diasporic context. These additional layers would help record, for instance, the colonial context of an object’s move from original culture(s) to the museums themselves. Of these layers, the TK Notice layer seeks to provide indigenous data sovereignty over cultural heritage classified under colonial modes of collection.

Project goals edit

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Goal #1 Produce a teacher training program in the summer of 2021, on how to use TK Notices in OER based in Wikidata-vocab OpenGLAM metadata micro-contributions

Goal #2 Establish and strengthen relationships between Wikimedia, MHz Foundation Curationist and Indigenous communities’ local networks through the mechanics of TK Labels.

Goal #3 Leverage our experiences to help expand and update Wikipedia & Theories on the Production of Knowledge.

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  1. During your project, what will you do to achieve this goal? (These are your outputs.)
  2. Once your project is over, how will it continue to positively impact the Wikimedia community or projects? (These are your outcomes.)

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Goal #1 Produce a teacher training program in the summer of 2021, on how to use TK Notices in OER based in Wikidata-vocab OpenGLAM metadata micro-contributions 1. During your project, what will you do to achieve this goal?

We will collaborate with experts over a period of six months, developing a platform to teach the generation of curricular materials that culminate in micro-contributions to the descriptive metadata of OpenGLAM digital cultural heritage objects. This OER project focuses on metadata and geographic taxonomy as key sites of cultural erasure, excavation, and recovery--and thus key pedagogical opportunities for critical analysis and digital literacy. Through, as well as transcribing, translating, alt-text describing, folksonomy tagging, and link-threading, educators, community researchers, and students can trace and transcend the colonial roots of cultural collections, while fostering intercultural creativity and educational justice. This will include the creation of training materials surrounding TK Notices.

This will culminate in a series of workshops in the summer of 2021.

2. Once your project is over, how will it continue to positively impact the Wikimedia community or projects?

We will monitor impact along two fronts:

How it positively impacts educators who engage in our workshops, and their ability to produce Wikidata. How it positively impacts the ability for our own evolving OER resources to guide future educators in the production of Wikidata.

Our OER and educational resources will allow educators to develop and share curricula culminating in micro-contributions to descriptive metadata of OpenGLAM digital cultural heritage objects. Metadata and geographic taxonomy are key sites of cultural erasure, excavation, and recovery--and thus critical analysis, digital literacy, and engaged pedagogy. By transcribing, alt-text, tagging, and threading, learners can trace and transcend colonial roots of cultural collections, for intercultural creativity and educational justice. We hope that this will all have lasting impact.


Goal #2 Establish and strengthen relationships between Wikimedia, MHz Foundation Curationist and Indigenous communities’ local networks through the mechanics of TK Labels.

1. During your project, what will you do to achieve this goal? We will closely collaborate with the Wikimedia community for feedback, to ensure that the work we are doing is inclusive of the community, and builds off of the work of others who have done this work to date. We will also bring Local Contexts to counsel with us and the Wikimedia community on the subject.

2. Once your project is over, how will it continue to positively impact the Wikimedia community or projects? If people other than us leverage our teachings to begin to produce pathways to contribute TK Notices and other cultural descriptive metadata to Wikidata, this project will be a success,

Goal #3 Leverage our experiences to help expand and update Wikipedia & Theories on the Production of Knowledge.

1. During your project, what will you do to achieve this goal? Toward the end of our six month development period, we will contribute the resources we have generated directly to Wikipedia & Theories on the Production of Knowledge as OER.

2. Once your project is over, how will it continue to positively impact the Wikimedia community or projects?

With our contributions made, future projects will be able to be guided by our findings and perspectives.

Do you have any goals around participation or content? edit

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Each of the faculty and researchers we train on Wikidata micro contributions will be viable new contributors within the Wikimedia movement. As our training itself becomes OER, we will continue to promote it and increase its ability to be an outreach tool for faculty and researchers looking to make meaningful cultural contributions over time in ways that ground indigenous rights and increase Open Access cultural heritage.

Project plan edit

Activities edit

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A total team of 13 individuals over a six month period has been scoped in order to achieve the development of a teacher training series of three 3-hour workshops in late summer 2021, in how to use TK Notices in OER based in Wikidata-vocab OpenGLAM metadata micro-contributions (on the Curationist V2 site). These workshops would be developed with Local Cultures indigenous data sovereignty leaders, OpenGLAM leaders, and the Curationist team, and would be oriented around connecting TK Notices to Wikidata vocabulary and EduWiki resources in general. The workshops would be training teachers in how to use TK Notices as they train students to become Wikidata contributors and users. These workshops, edited thereafter, would become OER themselves.

The central work product, as outlined above, would be the following three deliverables: Thoroughly researched lesson plan for teacher training series Produced workshops in the summer of 2021 Submission of lesson plan to Wikipedia & Theories on the Production of Knowledge as OER

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Project Budget 2 TK Notice developers at Local Contexts @ $3,000 each $6,000 2 tribal elders @ $4,000 each $8,000 8 hand-selected faculty @ $500 each participating as ‘students’ $4,000 3 Curationist team members @ $2,000 each $4,000 In-house technical assistance and project management $3,000 TOTAL $25,000 USD

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Project lead Garrett Graddy Lovelace’s relationship within cultural heritage and higher ed communities, and work to date, makes her a great target to tackle this project, and to direct outreach within those communities about them. Why are you targeting a specific audience? Many faculty and researchers care deeply about raising underrepresented knowledge in arts and culture How will you engage the community you’re aiming to serve during your project? We have a series of existing relationships and dialogues going with higher education institutions in the GLAM space, and are well poised to enlist them to participate in our lecture series.

In working closely withDominic Byrd-McDevitt,a former Wikimedian in Residence, we have cultivated our awareness of the great work being done in the GLAM-wiki community and need funding to move us from awareness to action.

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