Talk:Discussions/Submissions/What are the movement-wide opportunities for supporting GLAM-Wiki?

From Wikimania 2016 • Esino Lario, Italy

Alex Stinson has a new role. He has been introduced by Jake Orlowitz on wikimedia-l.

Alex shared:

[3] Some thoughts on the GLAM-Wiki Strategist Role

What I hope to do:

  • Help lead efforts to evaluate and improve our GLAM-Wiki documentation,

and develop resources that make GLAM-Wiki a more approachable strategy for volunteers, especially in communities which don't have much experience in partnerships with formal organizations.

  • Connect with and learn from the network of community leaders supporting

partnerships with GLAM and other organizations

  • Help document and share the most successful, repeatable GLAM-Wiki project

models coming from our communities.

  • Connect community leaders and outside organizations who approach

Community Engagement and other Wikimedia Foundation departments about GLAM partnerships with the best volunteer leaders, resources, or learning materials.

  • Communicate GLAM and GLAM-Wiki needs with teams and departments within

WMF, including Community Resources, Strategic Partnerships and Engineering teams. I have already started these conversations, and hope to be able to share what I have been working on in the next couple months.

  • Support strategic movement relationships with global organizations

(IFLA, ICOM, UNESCO, OCLC, Internet Archive, etc ) which can expand opportunities for GLAM-Wiki programming and partnerships by local affiliates.

What I won't be doing:

  • Creating partnerships with local cultural heritage organizations
  • "Coordinating" in any strong sense of the word -- It's not my role to be

“in charge” of what others are doing in the GLAM-Wiki space -- instead my aim is to facilitate access to better tools and resources that help community leaders coordinate these partnerships more easily and effectively.

What I would like to learn from the community and GLAM program leaders in the next few months:

  • Where does our community of GLAM-outreach leaders need the most support?
  • What are the greatest technology barriers preventing the creation of

easy-to-create and scalable relationships with cultural heritage organizations?

  • What are the best opportunities for expanding GLAM-Wiki strategies to new

or emerging communities with less partnership experience or affiliate support?

  • How can we help a greater range of Wikimedia volunteers participate in

partnerships with our GLAM allies?

I am very optimistic about the opportunities for GLAM-Wiki work, especially as Wikimedia becomes leaders of open and linked data, through projects like Wikidata -- and I want to make sure our communities have the tools and support to take advantage of that leading role in sharing cultural heritage knowledge around the world.

(posted by Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 18:45, 22 May 2016 (UTC))[reply]
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