User:TBurmeister (WMF)/GLAMToolhub

This page provides details of a session led by TBurmeister for WikiCon North America 2024.

• List of GLAM tools: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/GLAMToolhub2024
• Toolhunt
• Toolhub

An edit-a-thon focused on adding Toolhub annotations for GLAM tools.

• Length: 120 minutes
• Link to proposal: https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions:2024/Catalog-a-thon_for_GLAM_tools_in_Toolhub

Goal 1: Improve the usability of Toolhub for finding GLAM tools and their documentation:

• Improve the discoverability of GLAM tools in Toolhub by improving coverage and quality of attribute metadata: audiences, tasks, content types, subject domains (i.e. GLAM subject domain).
• Improve the findability of GLAM tool documentation by adding links to user and developer docs in Toolhub records. (This lays a foundation for future edit-a-thon work to improve the tool documentation itself.)

Goal 2: Expand the GLAM community's awareness of Toolhub and tool documentation best practices.

Goal 3: Support the GLAM community's goal to "Form an easy-to-share page that lists all GLAM tools in just one place."

Reasons for focusing on GLAM tools:

• A specific scope is crucial for coordinating edit-a-thon-style event tasks;
• Many lists of GLAM tools already exist and are relatively recent thanks to work like the Content Partnership Hub and GLAM CSI project;
• The GLAM community has a goal to single-source an easily-sharable list of tools; Toolhub could be a good solution for that, but only if the tools are in the catalog and annotated with useful metadata.
• WikiCon NA usually has a strong presence of GLAM folks in attendance.
• The GLAM community is passionate about and generally already understands the importance of metadata for discoverability :-)

Anyone who is interested in learning about GLAM tools, and/or about how Toolhub can help Wikimedians discover tools.

• You must have a Wikimedia account (an account you use for editing wikis).
• To catalog tools during the session, you must bring your own laptop or device. Editing on mobile devices is possible but may not be ideal.

In this step, you will learn:

• Basics of Toolhub and its data model
• Why and how Toolhub annotations can be useful for finding tools
• Which Toolhub metadata can make it easier to find GLAM tools

In this step, you will use the Etherpad list at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/GLAMToolhub2024 to identify GLAM (or other) tools for which you want to improve the metadata in Toolhub.

In this step, you will learn:

• How to use Toolhunt to quickly and easily add annotations through a micro-task editing interface
• How to add records and annotations to Toolhub through its user interface

Fields to focus on:

• audiences
  • Who is the intended user of the tool? field values
• content_types
  • With what type of content or data does the tool interact? field values
• subject_domains
  • Is the tool targeted at helping in a specific type of wiki project or topic area? field values
• tasks
  • What type of task does the tool help with? field values
• user_docs_url and
  • Links to user manual
• developer_docs_url
  • Link to technical documentation

In this step, you will bask in the glory of improved findability through metadata. Participants who make the most edits during the conference will be invited to choose a prize from a collection of library/metadata-tech-themed swag items :-)

Content Partnerships Hub lists:

• Etherpad list of tools from workshop at European GLAMwiki Coordinators meetup (2022) (backup on Google)

• Wikimedia content partnerships tools: Toolhub list (and related docs mentioned in phab:T310998#8359090):
  • Content Partnerships Hub List_of_tools
  • Tool Prioritization survey from end of 2022
  • Tool list – WMSE content partnerships hub
  • first draft Tool list- content partnersihps hub

Other lists and resources relating to GLAM tools:

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/GLAM/Tools
• https://hay.toolforge.org/directory/#/keyword/glam
• https://magnustools.toolforge.org/#glam
• https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Resources/Tools
• Wikidata:Linked open data workflow
• Ongoing project: GLAM CSI
• Ongoing survey: https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/985159?lang=en
• The whole GLAM package
• GLAM manifesto 2023
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_tools
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tools

This project highlights and expands on existing intersections between the GLAM community and the technical community (especially tool developers). Cataloging GLAM tools in Toolhub is an activity at the crossroads of technology, community curation, tool documentation, and GLAM community support. By encouraging GLAM community members to use Toolhub, this session will help us explore how a technical solution like Toolhub (a community-authored tool catalog) can support the goal of having an easy-to-share list of GLAM tools in one place...while also making that information more discoverable and maintainable than it might be on a wiki page or other format.

• https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/GLAMToolhub2024 - Etherpad list of GLAM tools, aggregated from lists of GLAM tools
• Toolhub - the catalog of Wikimedia tools
  • Toolhub documentation
  • Toolhub issue tracker
• Toolhunt - a tool for easily adding information to tool records
• Toolhunt v2 - next version of Toolhunt deployed just for this event!
• Session slides: On Google slides |