Hey Liam,
i'm glad that you're openly stating all the problems. It's always
better to be transparent in these kinds of situations.

Anyways, considering the next steps:

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote:
> - Usability improvements for the current workflow to ensure that the process
> as it currently stands is clearly explained within the system (including
> some user testing)
My #1 request would be better options to 'mash' and 'shape' the
incoming XML. Maybe you could argue that this is something that should
be done *before* stuff even gets into the GWT, but IMO we are very
lucky to even get GLAM professionals that know what XML is and can get
it from their API. It's a bit optimistic to think that they can also
write their own XML transformers like i did with GWT Cook [1] :)

> - Building a report on the needs of GLAMs to be able to export their data
> back out of commons (the equivalent of this Europeana-sponsored report into
> requirements for usage and reuse statistics for GLAM content)
Obviously this needs to fit in with the work that the WMF
metrics/analytics team is currently doing because the current options
(BaGLAMa / Glamarous) are just stopgaps that Magnus lovingly coded but
aren't really fit for the long term.

> - Building the API that will easily push content already in Europeana (i.e.
> Is using the EDM - Europeana data model) to easily export to a GWT compliant
> file.
Sure. I guess this might be one way to convince Europeana to keep
doing some development work.

> - Supporting the development of the Structured Data project (somehow!)
And that would be the #2 request. Hopefully we'll have a better view
of what will happen with that after the Amsterdam hackathon next week.

-- Hay

1: http://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/gwtcook/

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