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Project summary

 * Project Name:Wikimedian in Residence - Research Records of Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Auckland War Memorial Museum.
 * Start/End dates: 1st December -> 1 April 2021 (5 months)
 * Amount requested (and the currency you wish to receive it in): $13,000 NZD
 * Amount requested (in US$ equivalent): $8,700 USD

The people

 * Contact person name/Wikimedia username: Adam Moriarty /
 * Contact person e-mail address: amoriarty@aucklandmuseum.com
 * Organisation (optional):Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand.


 * Project participants: Who is working on this project. For each member of the team, please describe any project-related skills, experience, or other background you have that might help contribute to making this idea a success.


 * James Taylor (AM Collection Partnership Manager)
 * Hugh Lilly (Wiki Editor)
 * Susan Tolich (Wiki Editor and our first WIR)
 * Zoe Richardson (Copyright clearance)
 * Adam Moriarty (Project Sponsor, Head of CIA)

Description
Overview

This project will engage a Wikimedia in Residence (WiR) over a five month period. The WiR will help unlock the potential knowledge held within Tāmaki Paenga Hira's academic outputs and research publications. This project will entail uploading the information into Wikidata, adding citations to Wikipedia, and upload our media into Wikicommons.

The primary focus will be loading the 450+ articles of the Records of the Auckland Museum (formerly Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum) into Wikidata as well as other publications that the museum holds the copyright for, such as AWB Powell’s Native Animals of New Zealand. This material contains all the interdisciplinary research the Museum has undertaken in the last 165 years; including world leading research on New Zealand’s biodiversity, Mātauranga Māori, the wider Moana Pacific as well as theme of New Zealand in Conflict and in Peace.

This work builds on our existing projects with the Biodiversity Heritage Library where we are imaging historic publications, Bionomina where we are linking science specimens to collectors and our open licensing of images on Flickr.

We want to strengthen our relationship with both the local Auckland Wikimedia community and the New Zealand movement nationally. We will use this opportunity to host training events and talks to share the work we are undertaking and investigate how we build a sustainable model of knowledge gathering and publishing to continue after the project has ended.

Background

In FY20/21, Tāmaki Paenga Hira plans to take a more active strategic approach to digital partnerships. Our new Wiki Workplan will enable us to work towards the Museum’s Five-Year Strategic priorities including the goals to “reach more people” and enable “stretch thinking”. The Wiki Workplan will achieve this by leveraging the Museum’s open collections and the wider Wiki ecosystem. In developing this workplan the Museum commissioned a by Mike Dickison, one of the leading members of the New Zealand Wikipedia community. The report presented laid down a number of challenges. This project aims to complete two of these recommendations; to upload Museum publications and Museum research into Wikidata.

The ‘Records of the Auckland Museum’ is our main academic journal. Its articles incorporate the results of original research on our extensive collections, as well as research by Museum staff and other subject-matter experts. The journal has been published more or less annually since 1930, and includes contributions from more than 150 notable authors and co-authors writing on zoology, archaeology, ethnology, and botany. The articles contain important accounts of archaeological excavations, ethnographic objects, and descriptions of nearly 700 new taxa (mostly new animal species and subspecies)—a major contribution to the documentation of New Zealand's biodiversity.

The field of Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge), along with iwi partnerships and community engagement, is integral to our research, as we work through this project we will apply our cultural permission principles to ensure the safe and culturally correct sharing of indigenous content. This process is intended to ensure Māori and Pacific cultural values are upheld while also supporting people to access and use Māori and Pacific images and data. This project hopes to dramatically increase the volume of citable sources for Māori and Pacific research in Wikidata, so that the information available in Wikipedia can be sourced appropriately.

Motivation
It is our belief that this project is vital for us to be authentically fulfilling our Mission: ‘Tui tui hono tangata, whenua me te moana: connecting through sharing stories of people, land and seas’ - Tāmaki Paenga Hira Mission Statement.

New Zealand articles are often poorly developed: 43% of all articles assessed by WikiprojectNZ are stub class, and 60% of articles rated as Top importance are C class or Start quality.

In 2018, Tāmaki Paenga Hira created our Research strategy 2017-2023 that support the creation of our 2020 Wiki Workplan. The plan aims to align the museums goals, aspirations and Research objectives to those of Wikimedia - free knowledge for all. Within the ‘Open’ movement, New Zealand Institutions are already breaking ground, but there is still so much work to be done to connect this open data to its key platforms, perhaps, in part due to a lack of national resources to expedite this.

Tāmaki Paenga Hira's research strategy and wiki workplan are built on a 165-year foundational legacy of collections, research, scholarship and innovation that has contributed to understanding the world around us. As New Zealand’s oldest research and collecting institution, Tāmaki Paenga Hira has always put research and the dissemination of knowledge at the heart of its activities and aspirations. Our desired outcome for this project is to make this research more widely available. By uploading bibliographic data into Wikidata, increasing citations of New Zealand content in Wikipedia and uploading media into wikicommons, we will dramatically increase the quantity and quality of content relating to Aotearoa New Zealand

Activities
The Museum has digitised more than 165 years of research papers and articles. This project will help unlock this content, upload the information into Wikidata, add citations to Wikipedia, and upload our media into WikiCommons.



The role that this grant would fund will be fully supported and incorporated into the Collection Information and Access department, allowing for work and oversight on data sovereignty, copyright, and technical support. Our hope is that this role will also upskill the department in Wikidata processes and tools. We anticipate that this work can be performed remotely, and so should not be affected by COVID-19 limitations on international travel.

This work is part of the the wider strategy to allow for ‘metadata roundtripping’, a system in which the museum adds research metadata from its collections to Wikimedia then uses the enhanced data in Wikimedia to enrich the records the institution holds. We hope to document the process, and the wider Collection Information and Access department will assist in creating a publishing a case study on this process for use by the wider GLAM sector.

The WIR will be responsible for:


 * 1) Organising two training/community events (online or onsite).
 * 2) Selection and preparation of data for uploading into Wikidata using QuickStatements 2.
 * 3) Selection and preparation of media for uploading into Wikicommons using Pattypan or similar tool.
 * 4) Documenting the process and creating a guide for future work to assist other GLAM institutions.
 * 5) Helping to create promotional material.

Measures of success
In the initial sense, we will achieve success when:


 * 1) We have facilitated the reuse of article information in Wikipedia
 * 2) * Increase in the number of articles using Auckland Museum research.
 * 3) Educating the editing community that these resources exist
 * 4) * Hosting two meetup during the 5 months, inviting local editors into the museum.
 * 5) * Publishing a blog providing an overview of the new content.
 * 6) * Auckland Museum social media promotion of the new resources.
 * 7) Assisting the editing community in using and reusing citations, information and content in the articles in Wikipedia and images in WikiCommons.
 * 8) * Wikiproject page updated with guide to new resources
 * 9) Targeted associated media is incorporated into WikiCommons.
 * 10) Case Study published on the process of metadata round-tripping using The Records of Auckland Museum.

We will also measure success in relation to the personas outlined in the Structured Data on Commons GLAM Users research and the  created by the Wikimedia Foundation:

Community
''Who is your target audience for this project, and how will you ? How will you engage the community you’re aiming to serve at various points during your project?''

Our target audience for this project will be local activists looking to facilitate community knowledge creation and sharing as defined in the Wikimedia Movement Organizers Study. We have a success track record of engaging this community though our other open access projects. This includes working with communities working with Bionomia, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Zooniverse and local historians through our Online Cenotaph project.

Our Wiki-work plan states:

Engage with Community:

•  Host at least one community meetup and one public Wikipedia event each year (depending on COVID situation).

• Reach out to experienced Auckland Wikipedians and offer to host an Auckland Museum edit-a-thon in the library, with lunch supplied.

• Offer a volunteer reward to Auckland Wikimedians.

• Identify the main community contributors using Auckland Museum resources, and make contact on their Talk page, thanking them for their contribution.

This Wikimedian in Residence will be responsible for creating processes that allow us to achieve these goals and strengthen the relationship with the community whilst building a wider public understanding of what we are trying to achieve.

To reach the wider Wikimedia network within Aotearoa New Zealand we will actively participate in the New Zealand Wikipedian's notice board, the New Zealand Wikipedia Facebook Page and attend the Aotearoa New Zealand Online meetup.

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All administrative costs associated with hosting this position will be covered by Auckland Museum.

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