User:Jason.nlw/10 Month Report

''' WiR at the National Library of Wales. 10 Month Report '''

Accounts created
No new accounts created. The focus this month has been to plan future events and identify opportunities to collaborate with others on events and content sharing.

Image statistics

 * 278 images uploaded to Commons (See Digital collections for release for details). All uploads can be monitored via Category:Images uploaded as part of NLW - WMUK collaboration


 * BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)


 * February- Page Views - 51,330
 * March- Page Views - 70,996
 * April- Page Views - 186,973
 * May- Page Views - 178,917
 * Jun- Page Views - 697,704
 * Jul- Page Views - 2,306,570
 * Aug- Page Views - 2,437,248
 * Sept- Page Views - 4,075,081
 * October- Page Views - 4,698,284
 * GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)


 * Percentage of images used in a Wiki (March 19th) - 7.29%
 * Percentage of images used in a Wiki (April 20th) - 10.2%
 * Percentage of images used in a Wiki (May 19th) - 11.7%
 * Percentage of images used in a Wiki (June 22nd) - 11.61%
 * Percentage of images used in a Wiki (July 17th) - 11.21%
 * Percentage of images used in a Wiki (August 19th)  - 6.34%
 * Percentage of images used in a Wiki (September 17th)  - 7.62%
 * Percentage of images used in a Wiki (October 20th)  - 11.43%
 * Percentage of images used in a Wiki (November 18th)  - 12.58%

Public Outreach
The objective is to hold a minimum of 6 public events or workshops (Edit-a-thons) during the course of the residency (12 months). Each event will have a target audience and a well-defined subject for editors to work within. 10th month Outcomes:
 * Several new events have been scheduled for this month. See Upcoming events.
 * Discussions are underway with Dr Seager of Swansea University, School of Medicine about a collaboration involving the creation of a Wikipedia based module for Medical Students
 * Further discussions are taking place with staff at the Nation Waterfront Museum in Swansea about a collaborative project.
 * Contact was made with organisers of the annual Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon in New York. Both they and NLW are keen to host a satellite event in Wales on the 5th of March 2016.
 * Welsh authors edit-a-thon. Discussions have been held with the Printed books dept, and People’s Collection Wales about the event. And a date for the event is imminent.

Volunteer projects
More information about projects held with the NLW volunteer team can be found here

Upcoming events

 * 19 November – A Wikipedia drop-in event will be held as part of the NLW event to celebrate ‘Explore your Archives’ Week. Information about the project and Wikipedia in general will be on hand and visitors will be given the chance to have a go at editing Wikipedia.


 * 24 November – Wikidata event. A small public Editathon will be held at the NLW to work on improving Wiki Data for the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. This event will be held as part of the #LoveDigital Week activities at NLW.


 * 27 November – A 15 minute presentation about the residency, Open Access and Wikipedia with DIS Students from Aberystwyth University.


 * Local History Editathon at the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea. (December?) Discussions are ongoing.


 * Wikipedia ‘’Back Stage Pass’’ event at NLW to allow Wikipedians to DIY Digitise selected items from the collections. (Permission for this event is being considered by NLW management)


 * Wales for Peace Edit-a-thon. Following a meeting with Wales for Peace staff, they have committed to holding an edit-a-thon in January with the possibility of imbedding Wikipedia editing into their program of events across Wales during 2016.
 * March 5 – Global Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon

Staff Workshops and Events
The objective is to engage with staff and to promote digital connections by inviting staff to learn more about Wikipedia and how to edit. 10th month Outcomes:


 * A number of staff will be attending the Wikidata Editathon on 24 November.
 * A number of staff will be asked by their line managers to take part on the Welsh Authors edit-a-thon.
 * 1 member of staff is being trained to teach Wikipedia editing skills. The member of staff can then assist me during busy events. This is part of a commitment by the Library to continue to host Wikipedia related events once my residency has ended. As part of this training the member of Staff attended the Rugby event to assist editors, and also attended the Gwent Archives Editathon.

Planned events:


 * Staff Edit-a-thon. (Autumn 2015) Under review . Trying to find the best way of engaging staff with editing Wiki All staff who take part in training will be encouraged to attend an Edit-a-thon, to edit topics of their choosing. The event will follow the conclusion of initial training workshops.

Digital collections for release
The objective is to identify and release digital archives to Wiki-commons, primarily for use in Wikipedia articles.

10th month Outcomes:


 * 9 Images from a medieval scientific Manuscript. You can view the collection here


 * 71 High Resolution images from Vaux Passional – one of the NLW’s most important and finely decorated manuscripts. You can view the collection here


 * 19 Images from a medieval decorated music manuscript. You can view the collection here


 * 15 Images of illustrations from a medieval Welsh language version of the laws of Hywel dda. You can view the collection here


 * 78 Historical maps of Wales and Welsh counties, including 5 super high quality maps. You can view the collection here


 * 22 postcards documenting the Sengenydd mining disaster. You can view the collection here


 * 65 rare and early views of the American West by Carleton Watkins. You can view the collection here


 * All 5000 NLW images from Commons will be copied to the Peoples Collection Wales website, as part of the strategy to strengthen the partnership between Peoples Collection, the NLW and Wikimedia UK.
 * Contact was made with the Public Catalogue Foundation to discuss the possible release of NLW paintings from the BBC Your Paintings website, to Wikimedia Commons. The National Library also supports this idea, although finding resources to actually prepare the upload may prove a challenge.

Collections identified for future upload:

A revised list of collections identified for upload has been approved by Library management. Over 140,000 images have now been identified for Upload to Wikimedia commons. It has been agreed to use the Glam Wiki toolset to upload further collections.

Although 140,000 images have been cleared for upload to Commons it is unlikely that all the collections will be available for upload before the end of the residency in January 2016 due to the amount of Work involved in preparing metadata for upload. Collections are being prioritized accordingly.

'''Due to limited technical support in preparing collections for mass upload, a new list of c.500 handpicked items for manual upload has been submitted for approval. The items have been selected based on their potential impact and usability on Wikipedia. The Systems department are focusing on preparing the Welsh Portrait Collection for mass upload. The limited technical support is due to a lack of resources at NLW and in particular because of the current work being undertaken to implement a new Library catalogue system, which is priority for the NLW systems team'''


 * Geoff Charles Collection – 120,000 images taken by Photojournalist Geoff Charles c.1940-70 mainly in Mid and North Wales. The upload of this collection has been set out as a target in the operational plan of the new Digital Access department. This will require a significant amount of work by the NLW systems team and uploading the entire collection may extend beyond the end of the Residency in January 2016


 * P.B. ABERY Photographic Collection - 2000 images. Early 20th century images of mostly of scenes from the Breconshire/Radnorshire area.


 * Martin Ridley collection - 800 images (needs to be ingested first). Mostly South Wales Streets and industry. Late 19th – early 20th century


 * Welsh Portraits - 15,000 images (needs to be ingested first). This is the largest single Welsh portrait collection including examples of framed works, etchings and photographs. The collection includes portraits from the middle ages to modern times. (Preparing this collection for upload has now become a priority for the NLW, and it is hoped we can upload before the end of the year)


 * Images from Newspapers. Software is being developed in order to extract images from the Welsh Newspapers digital collection. The eventual numbers and timing are unclear but the NLW has committed to releasing many to Commons

Building bridges
The objective is to affect changes to NLW culture, guidelines, policy and procedure in order to create a sustainable relationship with Wikimedia UK and Wikipedia and to promote the open knowledge ethos.

10th month Outcomes:
 * The Peoples Collection Wales Management are still committed to changing their policy and to try and phase out the use of the Creative Archives license in favour of a Non-commercial CC license, with the option for people to also choose a Commercial License. NLW content from Commons will be shared with Peoples Collection, and all future uploads to commons will also appear of Peoples Collection. A meeting will soon be held to discuss how the Wikimedia, NLW, Peoples Collection partnership can progress further.


 * The possibility of holding a Hackathon with Wiki program developers in order to develop a semi-automated upload system using the People's Collection API was proposed and the suggestion has been put to Wikimedia UK staff for advice. Now waiting for details of date, location ect from Peoples Collection in order to discuss with Wiki developers.


 * Discussions are underway with Dr Dafydd Tudur, Digital Access manager at the NLW about preparing a business case study for sharing openly with Wikipedia. Detailed discussion are due to be held before next month.

Media Coverage

 * BBC NEWS. 'National Library shares 2nd Century Ptolemy map image'. 8 November 2015
 * - 'Hywel Dda' edit-a-thon & Pic-a-thon. By Jason Evans. November 13 2015
 * - 'Old maps, new content' by Jason Evans. October 22 2015