2019:Hackathon/GLAM focus area
The Wikimania 2019 Hackathon in Stockholm, August 14–15, 2019, has GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) as one of its focus areas.
Wikimedia developers, and developers working for cultural institutions, are very welcome to join this focus area. Let's sit together in the hacking space, and let's inspire each other!
Support and general topics of interest[edit | edit source]
You are free to work on the projects you are interested in. For two specific topic areas, additional support will be available, with staff from Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation present.
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FindingGLAMs[edit | edit source]
The FindingGLAMs project is being run by Wikimedia Sverige and aims to both identify GLAM institutions around the world and try to identify issues preventing GLAM institutions from contributing with materials. Through the analysis being done in this project, several areas of work have started to crystallise as in need of more attention. Wikimedia Sverige can give some support for participants wishing to work with any of these areas; they are indicated with (FindingGLAMs support) below.
Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons[edit | edit source]
In 2019, Wikimedia Commons is undergoing a major update: it is now possible to describe files on Wikimedia Commons with multilingual, structured, machine-readable data from Wikidata. The Wikimedia Foundation can give some support for participants wishing to work in any of these topics; they are indicated with (SDC support) below.
Project proposals and ideas[edit | edit source]
The list below is not exhaustive. Please edit this page and add other topics!
Also make sure to add your tasks to the hackathon's Phabricator board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/3922/
Sharing Audio files and Sheet Music Globally (FindingGLAMs support)[edit | edit source]
Many GLAMs hold collections of e.g. sheet music and performance recordings. While the Wikimedia platforms support digitised musical scores, the process of actually digitising a scanned sheet is quite involved today.
Specific steps for facilitating this could involve:
- Making OMR available through Wikisource (similar to OCR today)
- Addressing issues with displaying sheet music in Wikisource/Commons
- Investigating how to best tie together a scanned musical score with its digitized counterpart and a recorded performance of the same work.
- Creating comprehensive documentation that takes up all the steps involved in digitizing a scanned musical score
Import support for lexical datasets (FindingGLAMs support)[edit | edit source]
With the WikibaseLexeme extension largely stabilized, time has come to implement support for it in the major import tools (for example Pywikibot).
GLAM material in this area comes both in the shape of highly structured data and as scanned lexicons. Either could be used to import or source lexicographical data in Wikidata but both are in need of tooling to facilitate the process. For the latter type of material it would be of interest to see how the fact that the source material is digitally available on one of the sister platforms, e.g. transcribed at Wikisource, could best be leveraged.
Sharing documents used for sourcing (FindingGLAMs support)[edit | edit source]
Uploading archive materials to Wikisource (via Wikimedia Commons) allows it to be transcribed and used as sources on Wikipedia and Wikidata. This is especially important for languages in which most important sources are not yet available digitally.
Tooling/documentation which facilitates the use of such material for reference purposes is however sorely missing.
Engaging people in addressing problematic data (FindingGLAMs support)[edit | edit source]
Much of the uploaded GLAM materials comes with original data or descriptions which are marked as potentially being problematic or even offensive due to the time and context in which it was originally created. While the original description is valuable in providing the context in which the material was created or collected the Wikimedia platforms provide a good opportunity to review historical descriptions and update the material so that it better relates in our time.
Tools making it easier to bring material needing review to the surface and facilitating addressing such, e.g. through micro contributions, would be of great value.
Hacking with Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (SDC support)[edit | edit source]
Tools for uploading files to Wikimedia Commons with structured metadata (FindingGLAMs support) (SDC support)[edit | edit source]
With Structured Data on Commons now being available the time has come to add support for it in the major upload tools. The new development also brings to the surface the need for tooling and documentation to help support the preparation of LAM metadata and structuring/mapping it to Wikimedia Commons/Wikidata metadata.
- Improve the process of doing bot-driven uploads to Wikimedia Commons
- Upgrades to Pywikibot to support structured data
- Integrate structured data uploading and editing to Wikimedia Commons in OpenRefine
- Integrate structured data uploading in Pattypan
- Uploading via the Monumental tool
- Help with bot-driven uploads for GLAM pilot projects of Structured Data on Commons
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Tools for editing Wikimedia Commons with structured metadata (SDC support)[edit | edit source]
- Help improve the ISA microcontributions and tagging tool for Wikimedia Commons
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Improving data re-use between Wikidata, Structured Data on Commons and other Wikimedia projects (SDC support)[edit | edit source]
- Data re-use between Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikisource, for digitized and transcribed books, manuscripts, archival documents...
- Updated templates on Wikimedia Commons
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Data modelling with structured data on Wikimedia Commons (SDC support)[edit | edit source]
- Data modelling for GLAM-Wiki related multimedia files
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Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons, integrated and re-used in external tools (SDC support)[edit | edit source]
- Structured Data on Commons, structured copyright metadata, and the integration of Wikimedia Commons in Creative Commons Search (GitHub issue)
- Hacking and development around the Attribution Generator:
- Updating the Attribution Generator to work with structured data
- Create a gadget to include attribution texts into Wikimedia Commons itself
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Roundtripping metadata between Wikimedia sites and source databases (FindingGLAMs support) (SDC support)[edit | edit source]
Further experiments as a followup to the project Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping
Development with IIIF on Wikimedia projects (SDC support)[edit | edit source]
The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF, pronounced as 'triple-eye-ef') is a standard for sharing images (and other media files) across the web, which makes image and media repositories interoperable with each other. IIIF is widely supported by cultural institutions around the world.
Wikicite stuff![edit | edit source]
Let's talk about journal metadata & Wikicite initiatives. Thursday meetup details to come. -- Phoebe (talk) 10:29, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
To get an idea – with examples – of what types of applications become possible with IIIF, see this blog post (June 2018) from the Wellcome Collection.
As of 2019, default IIIF integration is not on the official development roadmap for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia projects (such as Wikidata). The IIIF community and the Wikimedia community, however, are in touch with each other, exploring options together. Several Wikimedia community members work on IIIF prototypes that work with Wikimedia content. The Wikimania 2019 Hackathon offers opportunities to work on IIIF with the new functionalities of Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons as well. See this general info page for existing projects and ideas: Commons:International Image Interoperability Framework
Contact[edit | edit source]
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Structured Data on Commons: Sandra Fauconnier sfauconnier
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Participants[edit | edit source]
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