GLAMing Madrid:a tri-museum GLAM

project

Jesús TramullasUser: TramullasWikimedia Spain &

University of Zaragoza

based on work by

Ruben OjedaUser: RodelarWikimedia Spain

1. A GLAM project supported by

Wikimedia Spain

2. Founded by Wikimedia Foundation

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_ES/GLAMing_Madrid

3. Developed by a wikimedian in

residence

4. In three museums

Museo Arqueológico NacionalMuseo del RomanticismoMuseo del Traje

5. September 2015 to January 2016

6. A very successful project

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_ES/GLAMing_Madrid/Report

7. ...that gave us experience and

maturity for developing new projects

What we did...

Activities

● Training sessions● Triedit-a-thon● GLAMing Madrid

Challenge● Classical music concerts● Content donation

6 training sessions for museum staff:Disseminating Wikimedia projects and explaining concepts and rules for Wikipedia editing.

18 training sessions for museum users:Workshops aimed to publicize the Wikimedia projects and learn howto edit Wikipedia.

Tri-edit-athon:A presential and online event.Three museums involved.Held on the library of National Archaeological Museum

GLAMing Madrid Challenge:

A contest for generate content related to the museums.List of articles by museum, and a fourth for women related to each museum.

Classical music concerts:Concerts in the Museum of Romanticism.Recorded for Commons.Ravel, Debussy, Albéniz, Chopin…...and Wikiradio.

Content donation:

Images of the museum collection catalogue.Preparation of the metadata files.Some problems about legal conditions

What we learned...

You are what you document

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Memoria_GLAMing_Madrid-en.pdf

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AC%C3%B3mo_desarrollar_una_colaboraci%C3%B3n_GLAM.pdf

You are what you can measure

Some resumed data...Users Articles/files Notes

Training sessions 37 (staff) / 61 (users) 114 24 training sessions

Tri-edit-athon 14 25 Free catering!

GLAMing Madrid Challenge

14 (30) 29 5 awards in different categories

Files 377 /(236 uses) Images from catalogs

Multimedia 45 (173 uses) Sound & video

You are what you can communicate

You are what you resolve

Staff problems.

Infrastructure problems.

Restricted copyright

problems.

Adapt to the institution.

Know your public.

Planning, be prepared for

the unexpected...

Thanks for your attention