Wikipedia:GLAM/National Library of Israel

Welcome to the National Library of Israel (NLI) GLAM project!

On December 2011 the Library and Wikimedia Israel launched the second GLAM project in Israel.

Following the recent success of the GLAM: Israel Museum project and the recent Wikimania Haifa 2011, the project was launched with high hopes.

Directing the project are Ido Ivri, Manager of Digital Programs in the library, Shani Evenstein, Wikimedia Israel's Glam Projects Coordinator, and Daniel Framowitz, who is the library's newly minted Wikipedian in Residence.

On the NLI's side

 * Exposing materials on Wikipedia for the benefit of the public
 * Creating a communication channel with the public – The public will be able to request more information and digital scans.
 * Increasing awareness of NLI's collections' potential – both existing collections and the library as a place to gather new materials
 * Increasing traffic to the library, both physical and digital (the library's website)
 * Better categorization of the materials (crowdsourcing)

On the Wikimedia community's side

 * Exposing materials from the NLI on Wikimedia projects, including in Wikipedia articles
 * Releasing as many materials as possible under a free license on Wikimedia Commons
 * Exposing and releasing materials that have never been seen on Wikimedia or the Internet in general
 * Strengthening the dialog with experts in the field, and encouraging them to contribute to Wikimedia projects
 * Exposing the project to the public in hopes of attracting new editors
 * Strengthening and increasing the community of GLAM editors on the Hebrew Wikipedia

How can I help?
Glad you asked! Here's a short list, but please be imaginative and contribute in ways we haven't thought of.
 * Do you like translating articles? why not go into one of the project-tabs, pick an article, and make an English version of it?
 * Do you enjoy writing brand new articles? Great! We have a truck-load of articles that don't exist in any Wikipedia language (or that exist, and are not quite up to par), why not work on one of those?
 * Do you get a kick out of cataloging? Awesome! why not help us properly catalog the pictures uploaded via the project?
 * Got a knack for graphics? many of the photos uploaded are quite old - why don't you try and breath some life into those old bones?
 * Know how to get the computer to do back-flips? let us know - we sure could use some help building automated tools.

Scope
The scope of the project includes any material housed by the library, which can be used to enrich Wikipedia and its sister projects. This includes both written and graphic material, including thousands of items residing in the library's archives. Methods of bringing the library's treasures to the public include - The collaboration with the NLI began with three mini-projects -
 * uploading of images to Wikimedia Commons
 * the linking of relevant articles to uploaded material in the library's website (e.g. linking from an author's article to a digitized book)
 * encouraging the public to frequent the library proper, utilizing the written sources themselves.

Find out more
If you are a Wikipedia editor, please feel free to ask questions on the talk page of this project page.

If you are not a Wikipedia editor, and/or are unfamiliar with Wikipedia's interface (yet :) ), please feel free to contact us at: wiki.glam.il@undefinedgmail.com

Participate
If you are interested in participating in the project, please add your name below (add: * ~ on a new line at the end of the list) and you will be updated on project news, as well as things that need doing.


 * Ynhockey (Talk) 20:41, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Shani. (talk) 14:54, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Deborahjay (talk) 10:43, 16 August 2015 (UTC)