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This page provides details of a session led by TBurmeister for WikiCon North America 2024.

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Slides for session at WikConference North America 2024

What is the session?

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An edit-a-thon focused on adding Toolhub annotations for GLAM tools.

Goals and benefits of the session

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Goal 1: Improve the usability of Toolhub for finding GLAM tools and their documentation:

  • Improve the discoverability of GLAM tools in Toolhub by improving coverage and quality of attribute metadata: audiences, tasks, content types, subject domains (i.e. GLAM subject domain).
  • Improve the findability of GLAM tool documentation by adding links to user and developer docs in Toolhub records. (This lays a foundation for future edit-a-thon work to improve the tool documentation itself.)

Goal 2: Expand the GLAM community's awareness of Toolhub and tool documentation best practices.

Goal 3: Support the GLAM community's goal to "Form an easy-to-share page that lists all GLAM tools in just one place."

Reasons for focusing on GLAM tools:

  • A specific scope is crucial for coordinating edit-a-thon-style event tasks;
  • Many lists of GLAM tools already exist and are relatively recent thanks to work like the Content Partnership Hub and GLAM CSI project;
  • The GLAM community has a goal to single-source an easily-sharable list of tools; Toolhub could be a good solution for that, but only if the tools are in the catalog and annotated with useful metadata.
  • WikiCon NA usually has a strong presence of GLAM folks in attendance.
  • The GLAM community is passionate about and generally already understands the importance of metadata for discoverability :-)

Session overview

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Who should participate?

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Anyone who is interested in learning about GLAM tools, and/or about how Toolhub can help Wikimedians discover tools.

Prerequisites and what to bring

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  • You must have a Wikimedia account (an account you use for editing wikis).
  • To catalog tools during the session, you must bring your own laptop or device. Editing on mobile devices is possible but may not be ideal.

What will participants do?

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Explore Toolhub and its metadata features

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In this step, you will learn:

  • Basics of Toolhub and its data model
  • Why and how Toolhub annotations can be useful for finding tools
  • Which Toolhub metadata can make it easier to find GLAM tools

Find and pick GLAM tools to catalog

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In this step, you will use the Etherpad list at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/GLAMToolhub2024 to identify GLAM (or other) tools for which you want to improve the metadata in Toolhub.

Catalog tools in Toolhunt or Toolhub

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In this step, you will learn:

  • How to use Toolhunt to quickly and easily add annotations through a micro-task editing interface
  • How to add records and annotations to Toolhub through its user interface

Fields to focus on:

  • audiences
  • content_types
    • With what type of content or data does the tool interact? field values
  • subject_domains
    • Is the tool targeted at helping in a specific type of wiki project or topic area? field values
  • tasks
  • user_docs_url and
    • Links to user manual
  • developer_docs_url
    • Link to technical documentation

Celebrate and maybe get a prize!

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In this step, you will bask in the glory of improved findability through metadata. Participants who make the most edits during the conference will be invited to choose a prize from a collection of library/metadata-tech-themed swag items :-)

Lists of GLAM tools

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Content Partnerships Hub lists:

Other lists and resources relating to GLAM tools:


 
Remixed logo image credits: Alexmar983, CC BY-SA 4.0 and BDavis (WMF), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Alignment with conference theme

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This project highlights and expands on existing intersections between the GLAM community and the technical community (especially tool developers). Cataloging GLAM tools in Toolhub is an activity at the crossroads of technology, community curation, tool documentation, and GLAM community support. By encouraging GLAM community members to use Toolhub, this session will help us explore how a technical solution like Toolhub (a community-authored tool catalog) can support the goal of having an easy-to-share list of GLAM tools in one place...while also making that information more discoverable and maintainable than it might be on a wiki page or other format.

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