Wikimedia CH/Grant apply/GLAMHack23

Infodata

Name of the project: GLAMhack 2023
Amount requested:10'000CHF
Type of grantee: Organization (Opendata.ch Association)
Name of the contact: DaJuHu (Darienne Hunziker)
Contact: darienne.hunziker opendata.ch

In case of questions, please write to grant wikimedia.ch

The problem and the context

What is the problem you're trying to solve?

A shortage of accessible and open data for usage from GLAM institutions
Lack of collaboration between institutions
More competition rather than collaboration in the GLAM field
The broad public misses the opportunity to enjoy collections and knowledge of GLAM institutions
Collections/Objects are often split apart and distributed among various institutions
While individually (often illegally) collected objects could be seen as the property of certain institutions, they do ultimately belong to the public that often has, if at all, only a tesselated, scattered opportunity to access those objects.

What is your solution to this problem (please explain the context and the solution)?

Our dataset team, constituted by Lionel Walter, Jonas Lendemann, and Dominik Sievi, approaches dozens of institutions continuously in order to encourage and support them in the opening process of data sets. Those datasets can be found on http://make.opendata.ch/wiki/data:glam_ch - the ones marked with a star are this year's bounty.
One of the GLAMhacks' main competencies is connecting researchers, designers, Wikimedians, and coders, creating a vast opportunity to network and collaborate closely over the course of 2-3 days during the GLAMhack.
Following the last point, this offers the potential for collaboration among institutions rather than competition
GLAMhack aims to bridge this gap and proliferate the projects through their own networks and our ever-growing international community.
Open data and a large community can push the agenda of unified and accessible collections and objects.
Open data is a way for a fair, open and transparent community, GLAMhacks support and propagate this agenda.

Project goals

A GLAMhack 2023 in collaboration with the Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève in fall 2023
70-120 participants
12-18 Projects worked on
200 open datasets/collections from 80-90 institutions made available through the make.opendata.ch website and opendata.swiss.
15% of the datasets / collections are available as linked open data / accessible through a IIIF compliant API.
Make all open collections from Switzerland available on Wikimedia Commons where this makes sense from the point of view of the Wikipedia /Wikimedia Community.
Reference all open collections from Switzerland on Europeana.
Make the datasets available through opendata.swiss and the European Data Portal.
8 projects developed during the hackathon are further promoted and are presented to a wider public or are otherwise put to some outside use (e.g. in research).
Reach the same level of satisfaction regarding networking, and getting new inspirations or ideas as in previous years.
OpenGLAM-related issues and activities have been integrated into the curricula of 3 higher education institutions.
Approach 50 data owners directly in view of the hackathon.
Get providers of content platforms to reach out to data providers in view of the hackathon.
Media coverage in 2 daily or weekly newspapers as well as on blogs.
Presentation of 5 projects developed during the hackathon at a public event attracting at least 50 visitors.

Project impact

How will you know if you have met your goals?

Some goals like the number of datasets, institutions and participants are easily metrically tracked - as well as the number of projects. We track each hackathon with an M&E process and also send out a survey to all participants several weeks after the hackathon. In the month after the event, we hold a debriefing session with partners, participants and the organisation committee.

See our documentation page of past hackathons for metrics and evaluations. An overview of individual hackathon projects is provided on the respective hackathon pages. A large proportion of them typically use data from Wikidata and/or content from Wikimedia Commons.

Do you have any goals or metrics around participation or content?

Yes, as stated above, an average of 75 participants promises a successful event, with that number of participants we can confidently say that at least 10-14 projects will be worked on.

Project plan

Activities

Each year we create a diverse and engaging event with side events and warm-up opportunities. For the GLAMhack23 we will do that in collaboration with the MEG, including workshops, presentations, brainstorming and warm-up activities in the premath of the event. During the event activities mostly involve presentations and pitches, team finding, working on the prototypes and utilising their data sets.

Budget

Below is the tentative budget for the GLAMhack 23

Expenses GLAMhack 2023
Label	Amount	Calculation Basis
Food & Beverages	CHF 11.500,00	2x Breakfast, 2x Lunch, 1x Dinner, 1x Final Apero 80 participants
Accomodation Youth Hostel	CHF 10.000,00	2 nights for 60 participants, 80 CHF the night
Project Coordination + Communication	CHF 15.000,00	200 hours at 75 CHF; OpenGLAM CH
Security & Extra Opening of the MEG	CHF 5.000,00	Late night opening Friday evening + Welcome staff
opendata.ch (10% of overall budget)	CHF 6.500,00	10% of overall budget for all hackathons under the umbrella of opendata.ch
Hack Tech Infrastructure	CHF 2.800,00	Hacking platform, datasets hosting, ...
Side Events	CHF 4.000,00	Events happening before the hackathon to promote the hackathon
Public Relations & Communication Materials	CHF 2.500,00	Logo, flyers, video teasers, ...
Onsite Tech Support	CHF 1.500,00	Boosting internet connection, ...
Gifts	CHF 500,00
Varia / Incidentals	CHF 5.000,00
TOTAL Expenses	CHF 64.300,00

Revenues GLAMhack 2023
Source of Revenue / Sponsor	Amount Requested	Comments
Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève	CHF 5.000,00	Security & Extra Opening of the MEG
Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève	CHF 1.000,00	Inkind participation for the communication, social networks, newsletters, ...
Friends of OpenGLAM	CHF 2.000,00	See https://glam.opendata.ch/friends-of-openglam/
Wikimedia CH	CHF 10.000,00
Ville de Genève - Culture et Transition Numérique	CHF 15.000,00
Fondation Hans Wilsdorf	CHF 10.000,00
Ernst Göhner Stiftung	CHF 10.000,00
Office fédéral de la culture	CHF 10.000,00	Focus Provenience Research in the "Message culture"
Other revenues to be defined	CHF 2.000,00
TOTAL Revenues	CHF 65.000,00

Community engagement

The open GLAM Switzerland Community is alive and growing. We are in the process of wording out the strategy for 2023-2025. Every 2 months OpenGLAM sends out a newsletter and is well-connected with various GLAM institutions, many of whom are also involved in the GLAM-Wiki community, please refer to https://glam.opendata.ch/friends-of-openglam/ - the GLAM community is also intertwined with the Opendata.ch Community and the Open Knowledge Community.