The document discusses the GLAMwiki toolset project, which aims to make it easier for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) to collaborate with Wikimedia Commons. The toolset will allow GLAMs to preview content before uploading, map metadata standards, and get usage statistics on uploaded content. The project is a partnership between Europeana and Wikimedia chapters, with the goal of building scalable tools for mass uploading and exporting data between GLAMs and Wikimedia Commons.

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