Now that the first GLAM has uploaded their own content with the GWToolset
(Beeld en Geluid) we have just published a blogpost formally announcing the
tool's existence to the wider world:
http://pro.europeana.eu/pro-blog/-/blogs/sharing-multimedia-on-wikipedia-no…
Please share it with your colleagues, GLAMs, chapters, social media...
This post also highlights the work of the most prolific used of the tool
thus far (Fae) and the person who has made the most use of the content
which has been uploaded alredy (Taketa).
I'll tell people about this blogpost on the cultural partnerships mailing
lists tomorrow and also the Wikipedia Signpost. Hopefully this will also
generate some interest in Dan's proposed hacking workshop at Wikimania
(sign up here
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon#GWToolset
) and the two presentations at Wikimania on the Sunday 11:30 session (
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme#Sunday.2C_August_10 )
Thank you to Dan especially for all the incredibly hard work you've put in
to this project over the years. Now that it's "out there" I suspect that it
will become popular enough that it starts to get peppered with people
trying to push the boundaries of what is possible. And, a bit like the way
Magnus' tools always seem to go from being 'proof of concept' to
'mandatory
tool' very quickly, I am hoping that the GWT will become a standard feature
of GLAM activities very soon.
On a personal note, I realise I've not been involved in actual development
phase of the software but it is nice to be at the 'birth' of this project
that I helped introduce
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3A2011_GLAMcamp_Amsterdam_Mass_Upload_and_Metrics.ogv>,
back at GLAMcamp:Amstersdam in 2011!
Sincerely,
-Liam
wittylama.com
Peace, love & metadata