Very Small GLAM

The Very Small GLAM term identifies GLAM entities of very small size. How small? It's inspired from the concept of VSE (very small entities) coined for the ISO/IEC 29110 series (Q719751) and applied to software development entities up to 25 members. To set a focus we, a bit arbitrarily, chose the number 5 as «up to 5» members of an institution or team working in GLAM. Very Small GLAM is not restricted to Open GLAM, but Open GLAM would probably be the best approach or complement for this teams with not so much resources.

Characterization of the Very Small GLAM concept using the «CHARTER model».

Venn diagram describing GLAM versus Wikimedia Movement domains.

Very Small GLAM use cases, considered for the first stages of the initiative.

Our goal is to reduce entry barriers for very small GLAM entities, existing or new ones, to set up their IT systems, to adopt high-grade professional practices to:

• help to breaking down barriers among various collections;
• facilitate access to new and diverse collections for interdisciplinary and cross-collection research;
• expand access for researchers and the public beyond geographical confines;
• serve a broad spectrum of audiences for mutual benefit;
• and to nourish and grow the digital commons of humanities.

At this moment this is structured by the SMALL GLAM SLAM Pilot 1 project funded by the WMF (ID: 22444585).

Project scope

To focus the development, the project is setting up the IT infrastructure for the future cinema documentation center, as a new activity line in LaOficina. The first tasks are related to the archiving of the multimedia resources collected in the realization of the «Memorias del Cine» project. So, the first GLAM facets are archiving, digitization and data preservation.

Project activity areas

• WP1—IT system developed with the NAS killer concept with a free software stack for GLAM, task T363818;
• WP2—configuration for a locally installed Wikibase suite, task T363819;
• WP3—GLAM ontologies and vocabularies, task T363820;
• WP4—GLAM practices, task T363821;
• WP5—data import, task T363822.

Very Small GLAM proposed software architecture

Team

• Péricles Dias de Oliveira
• Ismael Olea, coordinator

Both are employed by LaOficina Producciones Culturales (Q113320103). To contact the team you can use Phabricator or reach Ismael by Telegram or mail.

Important links

• Grant proposal (ID: 22444585)
  • and the grant proposal discussion page includes some relevant bits.
• project workboard in Phabricator
• and related blog posts at olea.org.

Project status reports

• 2024/04/26

The initiative summarized in a mind map.

Bibliography

These is the most relevant bibliography at the moment:

• J. Godby et al., «Creating library linked data with Wikibase: Lessons learned from Project Passage». Accedido: 22 de abril de 2024. [En línea].
• J. McIlwaine et al., Directrices para proyectos de digitalización de colecciones y fondos de dominio público, en particular para aquellos custodiados en bibliotecas y archivos. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2006. Accedido: 3 de junio de 2024. [En línea].
• C. Bekiari, L. Charami, M. Doerr, C. Georgis, y A. Kritsotaki, «Documenting cultural heritage in small museums», presentado en 2008 Annual Conference of CIDOC, 2008. [En línea].
• A. S. Faria y R. Correia, «eViterbo global report. Outlines on the creation of a research open platform using MediaWiki and Wikibase.», [object Object], nov. 2022. doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.7380114.
• Centro de Fotografía de Motevideo, Ed., Guía del archivo fotográfico. Uruguay: CDF, 2017. [En línea].
• A. Salvador Benítez, Ed., Patrimonio fotográfico: de la visibilidad a la gestión. en Biblioteconomía y administración cultural, no. 280. Gijón: Trea, 2015.
• Recomendaciones para proyectos de digitalización de patrimonio bibliográfico y fotografía histórica - Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte. Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, 2021. Accedido: 3 de junio de 2024.
• Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Michelle Pfeiffer , Andra Waagmeester , Maarten Zeinstra, Maarten Brinkerink , Joël Thill , Christel Kayser, «Representing the Luxembourg Shared Authority File based on CIDOC-CRM in Wikibase», online, dic. 2021. [En línea].
• «Spectrum 5.1: UK Collections Management Standard». 2022. [En línea].
• L. Bountouri, M. Damigos, M. Drakiou, M. Gergatsoulis, y E. Kalogeros, «The Semantic Mapping of RiC-CM to CIDOC-CRM», en Leveraging Generative Intelligence in Digital Libraries: Towards Human-Machine Collaboration, vol. 14458, D. H. Goh, S.-J. Chen, y S. Tuarob, Eds., en Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14458. , Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023, pp. 90-99. doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-8088-8_8.
• L. Rossenova, P. Duchesne, y I. Blümel, «Wikidata and Wikibase as complementary research data management services for cultural heritage data», p. 15.