Hoi,
The conference in Paris was a Commons conference and while important, the
GLAM part was only part of what we did. It was a "working conference" very
much intended to prepare for the Ford foundation project to improve the
usability of Commons.
As you may appreciate, my mail was intended to inform that we have been
talking and, to indicate in what direction the thinking was going. There is
no intention to write an official communique and if at all it will not have
anything firm in there except for "we consider working with GLAM very
important". When you work with GLAMs you may also know that there is a
mailing list on the subject.
At that we came to the conclusion that we do not necessarily know who is
doing what in this field ...
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/11/8 Craig Franklin <[email protected]>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> Will there be an official communiqué concerning the things that were
> discussed at this conference? Some of the GLAM institutes that I am working
> with would doubtlessly be interested in what’s planned for the future where
> Commons is concerned.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Craig F.
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Gerard Meijssen
> *Sent:* Monday, 9 November 2009 6:37 PM
> *To:* Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List; Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
> *Subject:* [Commons-l] Update from Paris
>
>
>
> Hoi.
> The French chapter did a wonderful job organising some of the brightest
> lights that deal with Commons in one place. Many subjects were discussed and
> some things were achieved.
>
> The two (technical) things that stand out on the achieving part..
>
> - there is now global usage for images from within MediaWiki itself..
> so no need for using the toolserver... The process of gathering all the
> necessary data may now have ended..
> - a first stab has been made at subtitles for video
>
>
> - In the discussion there were many things I found absolutely
> wonderful:
>
>
> - the workflow of uploads will be reconsidered; this means that a
> "working area" will exists where pictures can have a temporary home. This
> will allow to upload a batch of images and tag them all with shared
> attributes.. It will also allow for the checking of known issues BEFORE
> they
> go live
> - This working or staging area would also exist for GLAMs or
> competitions
> - A demo was given for what a competion workflow might look like
> - Pictures are now deleted when certain attributes are wrong or
> missing.. When they are pushed back into the staging area, we are less
> nasty
> and allow for cooperation
> - Social networking tools help us support newbies, resolve issues in a
> quiet way.. This helps us realise our objectives; write an encyclopaedia,
> build a kick arse freely licensed resource of multi media
> - there is a mailing list for people involved in GLAM and the outreach
> to GLAM, many people subscribed and hopefully this will lead to better
> coordination and in shared lessons learned
>
> It was a great meeting.. There were a few critical issues as far as I am
> concerned:
>
> - several relevant people refuse to post / answer on the foundation-l.
> The list proves to be irrelevant because this list does not get that
> message
> - currently there is no alternative... LiquidThreads may help as it is
> a pull not a push mechanism ...
> - some people I missed at the meeting, Durova being the most notable
> - our focus was about improving Commons for the people that use it
> particuarly as contributors.. The success of our project is however the
> result of use and reuse. \
> - subtitles was one of the more important novelties, we need to make
> the reuse in WordPress, Drupal .... as easy as the reuse of Commons in
> MediaWiki !! The API is getting to the stage where that is doable
>
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
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