GLAM/Newsletter/December 2024/Contents/Biodiversity Heritage Library report
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BHL-Wiki Working Group December monthly highlights
Agenda & recording of the December 2024 meeting
The agenda for the meeting can be found at this link. The agenda document gives notes taken during the meeting, action items, as well as the dates of future online meetings and the zoom link to join. Links to the recordings of the previous meetings are also given.
Wikimedian in Residence
BHL's Wikimedian in Residence Tiago Lubiana has given updates on his progress which can be found here.
Some highlights from the past month include:
- A refinement of the Structured Data on Commons model for BHL Images and an OpenRefine tutorial for adding the information
- A Commons Impact Metrics dashboard was released, enabling navigation of metrics for GLAM partnerships was made available, showing that BHL files on Commons are viewed over 20 million times per month. The dashboard enables the visualization of metrics for numerous GLAM-tracking categories on Commons. It is based on the Commons Impact Metrics API
- A new app for lightweight contributions was released on Toolforge, the BHL Arena. It enables users to compare images in the Commons tracking category and pick their favourites. It was made for users to explore the BHL images on Wikimedia Commons, find files needing extra metadata, and help prioritize candidates for reuse on Wikipedia and beyond. The source code, available on GitHub may be adapted to other Commons categories.
New relevant to BHL Wikidata property
The property reference illustration (P13162) was created on Wikidata.
BHL Meta Page
The BHL Meta page has gone live and there was a discussion at the monthly meeting about the progress being made to improve the page and other content to added. BHL's Wikimedian in Residence Tiago Lubiana has been working to enrich the meta page including adding more metric/impact information.
BHL Website FAQs
Members of the working group and the BHL community are working together to improve the BHL website FAQs that relate to engagement with the Wiki community. The aim is to update those BHL users interested in the Wiki work our community is undertaking and to encourage and guide any who wish to join in to contribute. These improvements are currently in draft but should be live on the BHL website in the near future.
WMF Q2 & Q3 hypothesis statements
The Q2 WMF hypothesis statement If the BHL-Wikimedia Working Group creates Commons categories and descriptive guidelines for the South American and/or African species depicted in publications, they will make 3,000 images more accessible to biodiversity communities has been achieved with over 9000 appropriate images placed in BHL's new categories, Files from the BHL in South America and Files from the BHL in Africa.
Work is still ongoing refining the BHL Structured Data on Commons model to be used to aid enriching BHL illustration data.
A discussion took place on practical issues raised when undertaking work to achieve the aims of the Q3 hypothesis statement which currently states: If 3,000 well-described images of South American and/or African species are released to the wider biodiversity community through 2-3 editing events and an on-wiki worklist, XX new images will be utilized on Spanish and French Wikimedia projects.
Decisions regarding duplicates of BHL images sourced from other institutions or the Internet Archive were made. See the agenda (link given above) for more detail.
Biodiversity User Group formation
A quick update was given on the feasibility of forming a Biodiversity User Group.
Outreach
The Chair of the BHL Wiki Working group, Ambrosia10, presented to the WOMNH Network group at the "Tell me where the women are": WOMNH Network Launching Event. Her presentation was on women scientific illustrators discovered through working with BHL sourced images in Flickr and Wikicommons. See this link for slides of that presentation. WOMNH is a recently formed international network promoting collaborations between researchers and museum professionals examining the roles women have played across the globe in the making of natural history collections and museums.
- Albania report
- Argentina report
- Brazil report
- India report
- Netherlands report
- New Zealand report
- Nigeria report
- North Macedonia report
- Poland report
- Portugal report
- Switzerland report
- UK report
- USA report
- Public Domain Day report
- Biodiversity Heritage Library report
- Memory of the World report
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