Lori and All,
While we're on the topic of GLAM learning resources- Ally Crockford, WiR at
the National Library of Scotland, myself, and colleagues in NY have been
talking about some ideas I'd like to open up to the GLAM community, and
possible continue on talk pages.
As a training-based WiR I have noticed that in meetings with librarians and
archivists they voice a pretty consistent desire for more resources that
describe some 'standard' procedures for GLAM editing and the problems that
GLAMs face with COI. Because of the nature of the work of librarians and
archivists, standard practices for workflow tasks are somewhat expected and
also helpful to explain to institutions precisely what they are doing with
Wikipedia, and I think we should consider this as GLAM-Wiki becomes more
ubiquitous and expands.
So...I've been thinking about different ways to develop some more concrete
standards in GLAM-Wiki. There is of course the Outreach GLAM page as a
resource to get started, but I think a GLAM specific section in the
Wikipedia Manual of style, and a cultural institution page template and/or
templates for museum collections would be helpful. I know there is the Manual
of Style/Visual
Arts<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Visual_arts…
complete with templates on different types of museum objects, which
might be a nice for a GLAM-specific section. Are others interested in
adding a GLAM section to the manual of style?
I also have talked to so many WiRs that have started from the ground up in
building learning resources for their institutions-and by now there are
many different 'intro to GLAM pages.' As such, it seems increasingly
necessary to have a page with something of a 'definitive' introductory
learning guide for GLAMs. I want to point people interested in this
discussion to this talk page section. Ally Crockford, WiR at the National
Library of Scotland, created a quite amazing Info Booklet that is linked to
on the bottom of this talk
page<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:GLAM>AM>,
and might be a good place to start if others are interested in developing a
printable 'intro to GLAM-Wiki' resource that is general enough to provide a
guide for any cultural institution, and public enough on the GLAM pages to
be picked up by new institutions and WiRs.Continue the talk there if you
like.
...I would even be interested in developing these info booklets for
different types of libraries- or having different sections in the Info Book
addressing different types of libraries. In my experience, consulting with
a public library about what they can do with Wikipedia is vastly different
than consulting with a museum library, and they have different concerns
regarding the materials the copyright concerns, types of materials to put
online, and events organizing.
If you are interested in talking about ways to develop more standards for
GLAM-Wiki perhaps we could do some sort of webinar or group chat in the
future?
Thanks for reading this long email!
Cheers,
Dorothy
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Lori Phillips <lori.byrd.phillips(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> These are all fantastic resources! It would be incredible if they could be
> added to the GLAM Bookshelf:
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Bookshelf
>
> Lori
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle(a)kcoyle.net
wrote:
>
>> I would like to see the library collaboration also have a focus on
>> locality and local archival resources, which are often held by the library.
>> Without being too venal about it, I think the local angle creates a sense
>> of "belonging" and also illustrates the unique materials held by the
>> library.
>>
>> Another angle would be to find out what special collections the local
>> library has, and emphasize those.
>>
>> kc
>>
>>
>> On 9/20/13 6:43 AM, Dorothy Howard wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Bettina and Pheobe,
>>>
>>> Pheobe, the 'Editing ideas' document that you have is very useful,
and I
>>> will try to expand on it.
>>>
>>> I'd like to contribute a document that I created as part of a GLAM
>>> workshop in NY.
>>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wikipedia:Wikipedia_for_**
>>>
Libraries_Archives_Museums<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikip…
>>>
>>> We talked about what kind of sustainable, regular, project librarians
>>> could build so that editing or training their library users became a
>>> more regular part of their work.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Dorothy
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Bettina Cousineau
>>> <bdcousineau(a)gmail.com <mailto:bdcousineau@gmail.com>**
wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Phoebe -
>>>
>>> These are very useful, thanks!
>>> In my region, public librarians admit to being "scared" of
Wikipedia
>>> and don't know much about it or how to use it. So...
>>>
>>> *...here's a slide deck developed for a branch-wide presentation as
>>> an intro to Wikipedia:
>>>
>>>
http://www.slideshare.net/**bdcousineaul/10-things-you-**
>>>
need-to-know-about-wikipedia-**but?from_search=2<http://www.slideshare.n…
>>>
>>> * ... and here's an adaptation of a manual originally developed by
>>> Susanna Giaccai (still in my sandbox - feel free to improve!):
>>>
>>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**User:Bdcousineau/sandbox1<http://en.wikip…
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Bettina
>>>
>>> --
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>>> employer.
>>>
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>>>
>>> As we enter Wikipedia Loves Libraries season (hooray!) I thought
>>> I'd share
>>> some material I'm working on ... it started as a handout for
>>> librarians but
>>> changed to being ideas for librarians and participants at library
>>> edit-a-thons. It is a list of editing ideas that (I think) are
>>> suited to
>>> taking advantage of library resources.
>>>
>>> pdf handout:
>>>
https://outreach.wikimedia.**org/wiki/File:Ten_ideas_for_**
>>>
editing_Wikipedia_handout_for_**library_editathons.pdf<https://outreach.…
>>>
>>> wiki page:
>>>
https://outreach.wikimedia.**org/wiki/Wikipedia_Loves_**
>>>
Libraries/Editing_ideas<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Lo…
>>>
>>> I have been reluctant to share this because "it's not
>>> finished"... but that
>>> is very un-wiki of me :) But, it's not finished -- especially
>>> the wiki
>>> page. So, please help me edit, clean-up, redesign, and in
>>> general let me
>>> know if you think this is a good idea or not. (And I will keep
>>> working on
>>> this over the next few weeks).
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Phoebe
>>>
>>> --
>>> * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to
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>>>
>>>