SMBwiki lotico 2012

Collaborative Data Stories The Intranet of the State Museums Berlin – Ready for the Semantic Web?12.07.2012 Thomas Tunsch

Data, Information, and Collaboration People provide data and information – experts provide information of high quality Collaboration is more than cooperation – sharing information continuously – providing as much information as possible – even ideas, unfinished papers, raw data ... Blurred boundaries between sender and recipient – changing role of the concept “author” How are museums as institutions receptive to collaboration – not only with equal institutions? Let’s have a look inside ...

The Project: Idea Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Diversified museum organization: Archaeology, European art, non-European art, ethnology – Directorate-General with 5 departments – Part of Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation): Head Office SPK Intranet until 2007: maintained by Department of Information and Communications Technology (1 editor with half-time position) Maintenance of content as a collaborative project of all employees?12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 3

Intranet until 200712.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 4

Intranet 201112.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 5

Main page: Important Links und News12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 6

Main page with current status of network12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 7

Main page: Projects12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 8

Thematic portals12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 9

Thematic portal „Museum DocumentationSystem“ (MDS)12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 10

Statistics 24.06.2010 14.10.2011 Articles in the article namespace 1.152 1.426 All pages in SMBwiki 4.751 5.623 Edits 23.009 29.565 Users 182 224 Administrators 2 3 30 25 20 15 Increase in % 10 5 0 Articles in the article All pages in SMBw iki Edits Users namespace12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 11

Use (without main page) Employee Committee news Current Events Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: Head Office Seminar and workshop suggestions for IT trainingNotice Board State Museums Status 24.06.2010 IT training Status 14.10.2011 Latest News (Intranet) Events SMart (State Museums exhibitions facilities dates) NewsTelephone and fax directories 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 12

Use (increase 06/2010-10/2011 in %)12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 13

Share of edits in % (>1 %)12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 14

Instructions for Readers12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 15

Instructions for Authors12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 16

Instructions for Pictures12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 17

MediaWiki: Installation and Configuration Help: MediaWiki.org, Wikipedia.org Continuously documented in SMBwiki Experiences published in MuseumsWiki – MediaWiki for a Museum Staff – 1 administrator of the web server (installation, adjustments PHP, MySQL) – 1 wiki-administrator with experience in Wikipedia12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 18

Categories and Wikipedia12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 19

Templates and Wikipedia12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 20

Lessons learned (1) Line organization – limited staff time and resources for projects – Support of hierarchy levels – longer start-up time needed Patterns of interpretation in the humanities and social sciences – privilege of interpretation by curators – high degree of specialization (experts) – traditional publication process (linear, one-way) (draft – editing – publication) Further training offered12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 21

Lessons learned (2) Criticism  Hypertext – too many links – Hypertext is text which is – confusing not constrained to be linear. – incomplete (What is HyperText) Questions – linear documents in the humanities and social – why should I write sciences (books, articles, ...) – what to write  no experience with collaborative – Is it allowed to write here communities without consulting my supervisor? Problems – My text is not finished yet. – This information is not meant for everyone.12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 22

But we dont give up ... ... and upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.18 in March 201212.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup) 23

Thank you for your attention Comments and collaboration http:// museums.wikia.com/wiki/SMBwiki12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup)

Contents Data, Information, and Collaboration  Further training The Project: Idea – Instructions for Readers – Intranet until 2007 – Instructions for Authors – Intranet 2011 – Instructions for Pictures Main page  Collaborative Communities – Important Links und News – Current status of network – MediaWiki: – Projects Installation and Configuration Thematic portals – Categories and Wikipedia – Thematic portal „Museum – Templates and Wikipedia Documentation System“ (MDS)  Erfahrungen Statistics – Lessons learned 1 – Use (without main page) – Lessons learned 2 – Use (increase)  But we dont give up – Share of edits12.07.2012 Data Stories (Lotico CSW - The Berlin Semantic Web Meetup)

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