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