GLAM/Newsletter/August 2015/Contents/Sweden report

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VIII, August 2015

Sweden report

Odd submarines, new strategy and an old contest

Maritime connectivity and upload

The Swedish National Maritime Museums (SMM) and Wikimedia Sverige are working on a special liked data, upload and edit-a-thon project. The first part of the project was to increase the connectivity between Kulturnav, an authority and vocabulary knowledgebase used by cultural institutions, and Wikidata. This will allow these connections to be used during the batch upload stage. In addition to this the data in Kulturnav was used to create and/or source statements in Wikidata for items for which the SMM can be considered an authority. To date at least 613 items have been enhanced with 2831 statements/sources.

For the image upload part, 550 images have been uploaded. The selection was made by curators and staff at the Maritime Museum, Vasa Museum and Marinmuseum with input from the community. A list of keywords were filtered out from the metadata and categories were matched to all different objects, people, places and years coming out of their database. After the upload is done staff from the museums will participate in an edit-a-thon/workshop focusing on putting images to use on Wikidata and Wikipedia, but also to increase the number of links to and from relevant articles.

Model of Osebergskeppet
Model of an odd submarine
Paniting of Ovidia
Drawing of Don Carlos

Wikimedia Sverige strategy meeting

The GLAM topic was a big part as Wikimedia Sverige worked on a new strategy at an open meeting in the end of august. Participants at the meeting (both members, board and staff) came up with both new ideas for partnerships as well as new ways to work with current partners. Among the ideas for new partners were both the Royal court, county museums and sport clubs, and ideas for projects for next year included variations from covering ESC to hosting batch upload sessions to running edit-a-thons to creating folders on what free licenses is. Nothing really new and exciting, but plenty to work with as we'll put our agenda for next year together.

Posting post-it notes on the wall
Post-it notes with ideas for partners. Green dots for positive votes and red dots for negative votes.

WLM preparations

With September and Wiki Loves Monuments coming up preparations were done to make it as great a photo contest as possible. With the ground work done previous years the Swedish competition continues to use four categories:

Among the prices in the Swedish competition a nice one is a visit to The Swedish Air Force Museum and a 30 minute flight in the Gripen simulator.

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