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Institution Resident's Name Period Covered Date of Report
National Library of Scotland Ally Crockford 12 February - 12 March (Seventeenth month of residency) 12 March 2015

Projects delivered

Metrics

Accounts Created 24 new accounts were created for or as part of training held during the University of Edinburgh's Innovative Learning Week editathon series, held daily from 16-19 February. Approximately 90% of the new editors identified as women.

Image statistics Tracking the 1,100 images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons using the GWToolset in June/July 2014 has yielded the following statistics:

BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Scotland)
  • May 2014 - 996,420 views
  • June 2014 - 932,959 views
  • July 2014 - 1,354,381 views
  • August 2014 - 1,328,133 views
  • September 2014 - 1,982,546 views
  • October 2014 - 1,504,452 views
  • November 2014 - 1,503,300 views
  • December 2014 - 1,121,928 views
  • January 2015 - 1,248,582 views
Glamorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects from the category commons:Category:Images uploaded as part of NLS-WMUK collaboration)
  • July 2014 - 6.6%
  • August 2014 - 8.12%
  • September 2014 - 8.93%
  • October 2014 (as of 15 October) - 9.03%
  • November 2014 (as of 15 November) - 9.29%
  • December 2014 (as of 04 December) - 10.21%
  • January 2015 (as of 31 January) - 10.74%
  • February 2015 (as of 02 March) - 10.74%

Objectives and outcomes

National Library of Scotland's Mission Wikimedia UK's Mission
Enrich lives and communities.
Encourage and promote lifelong learning, research, and scholarship.
Provide universal access to information by comprehensively collecting and making available the recorded knowledge of Scotland.
Promote access to the ideas and cultures of the world.		 To help people and organisations build and preserve open knowledge, to share and use freely.

Outreach

Objective: Delivery of 3+ public workshops for editors (i.e. edit-a-thons); help organise and host other Wikimedia related events for members of the public, Wikimedians, researchers and librarians such as workshops, Edit-athons, meetups, backstage pass tours

16th Month Outcomes:
  • Work organising planned international symposium exploring IPR and digital access has continued
  • Symposium would be an attempt to bring together representatives from GLAMs in the EU, UK, and potentially further abroad to discuss their different perspectives of and experiences with IPR, digital content, and facilitating access (open access or otherwise)

Upcoming events

Known or Prospective Date Event Name or Description Host or Partner Organisation Scope of event or talk
4 March 2015 Connect @ Edinburgh Napier University 'Writing Women Back into History' Editathon Connect @ Edinburgh Napier University An internal editathon for students and staff in the School of Computing and the School of Engineering and the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University; supported by WiR@ NLS - organisation and WiR@MGS - training
6 March 2015 Dundee Art+Feminism 2015 edit-a-thon University of Abertay, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design Part of the Art+Feminism campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia. This event will focus on expanding or improving Wikipedia entries for women artists working in new media, particularly those associated with the exhibition Coded After Lovelace; supported by WiR@NLS and WiR@MG
Spring 2015 Wikipedia Training Capture session (by User:ACrockford) Jisc Scotland, CILIPS MmIT?; Scottish government? Following from the Jisc 'Tales of a Wikimedian in Residence' webinar, Adobe capture would be used to provide a simple but thorough introduction to contributing to Wikipedia for Librarians and FE/HE educators. This would be released under CC-BY-SA license and uploaded to Commons, and also made available by Jisc as a wider learning resource for educators.
Spring 2015 Jisc Rsc Scotland editathon New Jisc Rsc Scotland Offices Jisc Scotland are anticipating a move of house in the near future (date TBC), and have offered up their new offices as a venue for an editathon once they have settled. Topic yet to be determined.
September 2015 Second Volunteer Strategy Gathering Wikimedia UK Second event bringing together interested stakeholders to consider our Volunteer Strategy. Aim to improve and further develop the organisation by creating new approaches to project-based volunteering.
Undetermined date Datafest Scotland 2014 Alwyn Williams Building (School of Computing Science) and Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow, Scotland Wikimedia volunteers will be on hand to organise a tutorial on editing Wikipedia

Internal impact

Objective: Organise and host workshops for Library staff to explain how they can directly contribute their knowledge and expertise to develop Wikipedia articles; deliver 7+ workshops for National Library of Scotland staff and researchers or related institutions; develop infrastructure for sustainable partnership between NLS and WMUK after residency ends

16th Month Outcomes:
  • Note: After some members of staff at the NLS raised concerns regarding the release of content onto a CC-0 license on a mass scale, uploads were put on hold to allow for internal conversations regarding the releasing of digital content onto open licenses. Internal events - workshops and seminars - are under way to encourage discussion and reach a consensus
  • Organisation for an internal seminar at the NLS on access to digitised public domain content online continued, with confirmation of a chair as well as a scribe, and the outline of a structure for the event. Information will be gathered via survey in advance of the seminar, which is currently set for February 27 2015

Contributor communities

Objective: Help establish relationships with the Scottish Wikimedia community, editors and projects

16th Month Outcomes:


Material for future digitisation

Objective: Explore adding digital resources such as digitised books, articles, photographs and posters to Wikimedia Commons; work with staff, including librarians and curators, to identify areas of Wikipedia and sister projects that could be enriched with resources and knowledge from the Library’s collections

16th Month Outcomes:

After some members of staff at the NLS raised concerns regarding the release of content onto a CC-0 license on a mass scale, uploads have put on hold for the time being. Conversations regarding the Library's implementation of the Metadata and Digital Content Licensing Policy (approved Spring 2014) are ongoing


Once the Library has reached an internal consensus and uploading resumes, the schedule outlined in earlier reports will generally be followed. This content will include:
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