Wikimedia CH/Grant apply/Sum of All GLAMs 2023
Infodata edit
- Name of the project:Sum of All GLAMs 2023
- Amount requested: 15'000 CHF
- Type of grantee: Organization (Opendata.ch Association)
- Name of the contact: Beat Estermann (talk) 15:17, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
- Contact: beat.estermann
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The problem and the context edit
What is the problem you're trying to solve? edit
Sum of all GLAMs aims to improve the information about heritage institutions and performing arts organizations on Wikidata and to promote the use of this information on Wikipedia and in other projects and online services. The goal is to achieve a complete and high-quality inventory of heritage institutions, arts organizations, and performing arts venues, and to make this information available on an international level.
What is your solution to this problem (please explain the context and the solution)? edit
The project pursues a two-pronged strategy:
- data provision and maintenance through a crowdsourcing approach; and
- promotion of actual data use to encourage data provision in the first place.
The main focus of the project activities planned for 2023 is on introducing potential contributors to Wikidata and teaching them how to interact with the platform.
We will thereby take a step back, reach out to the providers of various learning formats (introductory videos, introductory workshops, online tutorials, Wikidata tours, on-demand coaching & support, Live Editing Wikidata, Wikidata Lab, Wikidata Coffee Breaks, or institutionalized, collective learning formats, such as Hackday Series or Wikidata Pilots) and subject the different formats to a peer evaluation. The goal is to learn from each other in view of improving the different offers, but also to do a better job in cross-promoting the various offers, as new contributors are often unaware of the existing learning formats.
In parallel, we will continue to offer our own learning formats, such as the Wikidata Introductory Workshops and the Wikidata Coffee Breaks. We will further develop our own offer of Wikidata Tutorials and Introductory Workshops. The tutorials website [1] will be overhauled and improved: alternative learning formats will be listed and our own tutorials will be contextualized better. In order to increase the offer of tutorials across different languages, we will implement a "Tutorial Factory" that facilites the crowdsourcing of translations.
We will also continue to foster partnerships with umbrella associations and organizations planning to ingest and maintain a part of their data on Wikidata (e.g. Swiss National Library, Association of Swiss Archivists, Swiss Archives for the Performing Arts, Corodis, Canadian Association for the Performing Arts).
Increased efforts will go into the promotion of our offers through various channels (social media, newsletters, mailing lists, cooperation with outreach campaigns).
We will continue to encourage the use of data from Wikidata in various contexts through different activities of our association. This is however not a major focus in the further implementation of the Sum of All GLAMs project proper. We have in particular abandoned the idea of directly contributing to the creation of Wikidata-powered infoboxes on Wikipedia, partly due to a lack of staff with the required set of competences, and partly due to the reluctance, especially of the German Wikipedia community, when it comes to adopting Wikidata-powered infoboxes. We are however in touch with various organizations already making or planning to make more intensive use of data from Wikidata and have started to tailor the content of our learning formats to match and complement their endeavours.
Project goals edit
- Provide an overview of different learning formats, setting forth their pros and cons
- Establish partnerships for the cross-promotion of learning formats / offers
- Create new tutorials
- Increase the language coverage of existing tutorials
- Develop new introductory workshops (SPARQL queries, Structured Data on Commons)
- Continue to offer Wikidata Introductory Workshops and Wikidata Coffee Breaks
- Improve the quality of presentation and use of the Wikidata Tutorials
Project impact edit
How will you know if you have met your goals? edit
Note that the tables below reflect the current state of project planning and are based on the assumption that the project will be fully funded. A re-definition of project goals may be needed if funding goals are not met.
| Goal | Measures of Success |
|---|---|
| Provide an overview of different learning formats, setting forth their pros and cons | Overview created and published as part of a Community of Practice effort |
| Establish partnerships for the cross-promotion of learning formats / offers | Learning formats / offers from three different organizations are the object of regular cross-promotion activities |
| Create new tutorials | 4 new tutorials produced |
| Increase the language coverage of existing tutorials | 16 additional translations completed & published |
| Develop new introductory workshops (SPARQL queries, Structured Data on Commons) | 2 new introductory workshops created and carried out at least once |
| Continue to offer Wikidata Introductory Workshops and Wikidata Coffee Breaks | See objectives in the table below |
| Improve the quality of presentation and use of the Wikidata Tutorials | The website has been overhauled based on the feedback received.
Usage statistics are available and show a clear upward trend. |
Do you have any goals or metrics around participation or content? edit
| Indicator | 2021-2022
(9 months) |
2022
(6 months) |
objectives 2023
(12 months) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Introductory Workshops Carried Out | 5 | 2 | 12 |
| Number of Workshop participants | 32 | 11 | 96 |
| Usage statistics of Workshop recordings | 30 views of avg. | n/a | n/a (counted in the usage statistics of Tutorials) |
| Number of Wikidata Coffee Breaks carried out | - | 4 | 16 |
| Number of Coffee Break participants
(individual participants; repeated participation counted as 1) |
- | 16 | 50 |
| Number of Wikidata statements added during Coffee Breaks | - | 250 | 1000 |
| Number of Testimonials Produced | 4 | - | - |
| Number of Tutorials Produced (completed & published) | 13 | 9 | 20 |
| Usage Statistics of Tutorials on YouTube | - | 450 views | 4000 views |
| Number of New Subscribers on YouTube | 5 | 12 | 40 |
| Usage Statistics of Tutorials on Website | n/a | n/a | (start reporting this indicator) |
Project plan edit
Activities edit
The activities are organized in four work packages; the respective tasks are listed below.
WP 1 - Programme Management / Project Management
| T1.1 | Overall coordination, risk management, meetings, reporting, planning of the next implementation phase |
| T1.2 | Establish and maintain partnerships |
| T1.3 | Ensure continued monitoring via key performance indicators |
| T1.4 | Provide data gap analyses |
WP 2 - Tutorial Factory
| T2.1 | Set up processes for co-creative tutorial production |
| T2.2 | Plan and create new tutorials |
| T2.3 | Establish effective processes of quality assurance |
| T2.4 | Formulate a hackathon challenge for the evaluation of open source software |
| T2.5 | Moderate and engage in data modeling discussions, find consensus |
WP 3 - Wikidata Introductory Workshops & Coffee Breaks
| T3.1 | Carry out Introductory Workshops |
| T3.2 | Develop new Workshops |
| T3.3 | Plan and carry out Wikidata Coffee Breaks |
WP 4 - Marketing & Communication
| T4.1 | Provide an overview of learning formats, engage in dialog with like-minded partners |
| T4.2 | Engage in partnerships for cross-promotion |
| T4.3 | Improve the tutorials website (better contextualization of the tutorial contents) |
| T4.4 | Promote the various offers / learning formats |
| T4.5 | Promote data use |
Budget edit
| WP | Estimated Cost (CHF) |
|---|---|
| WP 1 | 6'548 |
| WP 2 | 11'412 |
| WP 3 | 10'477 |
| WP 4 | 95'41 |
| Total | 43'590 |
| Funding Partner | Amount (to be) requested (CHF) |
|---|---|
| Friends of OpenGLAM Network | 8'590 |
| Wikimedia CH | 15'000 |
| HASLER Foundation (deficit garantee) | 10'000 |
| Ernst Göhner Stiftung | 10'000 |
| Total | 43'590 |
Community engagement edit
Communicty engagement will take place on four levels:
- Outreach to and interaction with new contributors
- Outreach and engagement with the producers of other learning formats/offers
- Outreach to seasoned community members for the translation of tutorials
- Partnerships with heritage institutions, arts organizations and their respective umbrella organizations interested in contributing to and making use of Wikidata