1. The GLAMwiki toolset
Valentine Charles
31st May 2012, ELAG2013, Ghent

2. Two stories

3. A (digital) library tale
 This is not new: libraries are digitising their content !
 And they are trying to re-distribute these resources via
different channels: national initiatives, aggregations services
such as Europeana.
 BUT:
• These tasks require resources
• copyright is often a limit

4. A story of open data
 Wikimedia Commons
• A media file repository making available public domain
and freely-licensed educational media content (images,
sound and video clips) to everyone in their own language.
• A common repository for the various projects of
the Wikimedia Foundation
• The presence of libraries in Wikimedia Commons is very
limited.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Partnerships

5. If the two
stories comes
together…

6. If the two
stories comes
together…

7. If the two stories comes together…
 Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia community seek collaboration
with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs)
 BUT collaborating with Wikimedia Commons is not so easy:
• lack of user friendly tools for (mass) uploads of content to Wikimedia
Commons
• lack of support for typical GLAM-metadata standards in Wikimedia
Commons templates
• lack of user friendly tools to export metadata and data back to GLAMs
when it has been improved by the Wikipedia Community
• lack of easily accessible and fit for purpose usage statistics for GLAM-
content once uploaded to Wikimedia Commons

8. The GLAMwiki toolset project

9. Collaboration of communities
 A partnership between Europeana and four Wikimedia
Chapters (UK, Netherlands, France and Switzerland)
 Project started in September 2012
 Development done by Europeana
 With the objectives:
• To build a scalable curator-friendly system for mapping
metadata and mass-uploading content from GLAMs to Wikimedia
Commons
• And provide clear requirements to the Wikimedia Foundation
Data Analytics team to build usage statistics solutions that are fit
for GLAM-purpose

10. APIs
Import/
Export
data
Plug-ins
Mapping registry
Previewer
Wikimedia
Commons
Wikimedia
Projects
Logs
GLAM
repositories
Wikipedian
GLAM Curator
Analyst
= project deliverable
GLAM System sketch
“The GLAM wizard”“The GLAM wizard”
Authorisation
Mapping
Transformation
“Wikimedia
Analytics”
“Wikimedia
Analytics”

11. The GLAMwiki toolset
 Repositories
• Gerrit extension
• Github extension
 Servers
• Wikimedia Labs
instance

12. Step 1
• Allow GLAMs uploading content to Wikimedia Commons
to preview it prior to final upload and publication
• Have a plug-in architecture allowing third-party developers
to create provider API and format specific plug-ins or plug-
ins for specific processes e.g. public domain checking or
file transformation
• Be able to monitor updates and changes in the uploaded
content and metadata and download the changes for re-
integration at source
• Allow Europeana data providers to cross-publish their
(Open) content to both Europeana and Wikimedia
Commons

13. Step 1: uploading content

15. Step 2
 Support the major metadata standards and their mappings to
Wikimedia Commons templates
 Allow user friendly creation of mappings between GLAM
metadata templates to Wikimedia Commons templates

18. Step 2: metadata mapping

19. Step 2: metadata mapping

21. Step 3
 The project aims at conforming to the best practices and
standards for development of MediaWiki as defined by the
Wikimedia community
 Allow user friendly creation of partnership templates for
proper attribution

25. Step 4: Publication

28. Conclusion
 The project is running until the end of the year
• tool will be ready for integration to Wikimedia
Commons.
• The statistics requirements report will be
published by end of May.
 Follow the progress at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GL
AMToolset_project

29. Conclusion
 The community is invited to contribute to the development of
the tool with the Wikimedia community
 Ideas for future development:
• Allow for batch export and download of specific GLAM-
collections from Wikimedia Commons with metadata
output in standard GLAM metadata formats
• Implementation of an OAI-PMH module
• MARC support

30. Thank you
valentine.charles@kb.nl
Acknowledgments to Dan Entous