Grants:Simple/Applications/Wikimedia Indonesia/2017/March-June 2018/Final reports/GLAM
GLAM
- Narrative report in Bahasa Indonesia
- Documentation page in Bahasa Indonesia
- Expense report in Bahasa Indonesia
- Final metrics and objectives
| Subproject | Goal | Status | Remarks | |||
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| GLAM | Digitization 70 edition of Majalah Kajawen |
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All 70 editions of the magazine are now available in Commons | |||
| Four Wikisource training sessions |
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Only one session was done | ||||
| Fixation future projects with new local institutions |
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Two new local organizations are ready to partner with Wikimedia Indonesia |
Narrative report
From March 12 to June 30, 2018, Wikimedia Indonesia continued its GLAM subproject under SAPG grant scheme from WMF. In this grant period, Wikimedia Indonesia has achieved most of its objectives: (1) continue digitization of Majalah Kajawen, (2) conducting Wikisource training sessions, and (3) fixation future project with new local archive institutions.
For four months, we have successfully continued our GLAM activities in Surakarta, Central Java. After Yayasan Sastra Lestari gave permission for Wikimedia Indonesia to upload their 1927, 1928, and 1930 editions of Majalah Kajawen to Wikimedia Commons, we were granted for permission to continue this effort for the rest of the magazines. Until the end of June, 1928 and 1929 editions of Majalah Kajawen are now available in Wikimedia Commons under Public Domain license, in the total of 70 editions.
For Wikisource training sessions, we were done one training session only in May 2018. In the session, we tried to invite Wikimedia Indonesia members who are interested in transcribing text to come to the session. Wikimedia Indonesia invited general people and Wikipedian to come to via Facebook Events. However, on the day of the event, six people attended. Five of the participants were from Wikimedia Indonesia members and/or staffs, and the rest are Indonesian Wikipedian. The outcomes were 38 Wikisource pages were edited and proofread, and 28 Wikisource index pages were created. Because the topic of the session was working on the letters, the participants worked on several languages of Wikisource. From the record, we knew that they edited on English, Dutch, and Indonesian Wikisource. For full event documentation, please refer to this page.
In this year, Wikimedia Indonesia would like to expand its GLAM subproject to reach more local archive institutions. On March 2018, there were two institutions under local government were contacted and they were excited to talk and discuss on the future project. One of them was Pusat Dokumentasi dan Informasi Kebudayaan Minangkabau. This library, which is situated in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra, has a large number of books, magazines, and old texts about Minangkabau. According to the librarians, they have a lot of old books published before the 1900s and the publishers are now no longer exist. According to an expert from Andalas University Dr. Pramono, those books can now be considered in the Public Domain and it is important to preserve those books as soon as possible before they are damaged. The custodian of the library was happy to have Wikimedia Indonesia involved to help preserve the books and to share their collections if needed. On June 2018, the Chair of Wikimedia Indonesia toured this library and examined the possibility of the collaboration and what Wikimedia Indonesia can support.
Another local institution contacted Wikimedia Indonesia was Badan Geologi. This is a government agency, situated in Bandung, West Java, that carrying research, investigation, and service in the field of geological resources, volcanology and mitigation of geological, groundwater, and environmental geological disasters, as well as geological surveys. This agency has diverse scientific publications, portraits, and magazines, which are geology-related. After several meetings held, discussing what will be benefits for each party, the agency agreed to let Wikimedia Indonesia digitized their collections and later will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as the final aim of both parties.
Dr. (H.C.) Oemboe Hina Kapita Museum visit
At the end of May 2018, Wikimedia Indonesia was invited by a local, public museum in West Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara, thanks to Koalisi Seni Indonesia who are involved in advocating public policy in arts. Koalisi Seni Indonesia and Wikimedia Indonesia have several times involved in Wikipedia training sessions. This time, Wikimedia Indonesia representatives, Rachmat Wahidi and Hilman Fathoni (Creative Commons expert) invited local artists to introduce free license they can apply to their works.
The two-day event (May 30 and 31, 2018) was divided into presentation and digitization sessions. On the first day, Koalisi Seni Indonesia shared about the change of the arts ecosystem in the digital era and the importance of cultural data, as stipulated in Law on Cultural Advancement. Further, Wikimedia Indonesia explained how to use Creative Commons and various types of license. Several cultural practitioners alongside with the local government from the Office of Culture and Tourism Agency and Public Library and Archive were seen to come. The proposed audience at this event was the museum staffs, therefore they could conduct a better knowledge management through the museum collections, including weft ikat, pieces of jewelry and ritual types of equipment.
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Annayu Maharani (from Koalisi Seni Indonesia) delivered a presentation on how to take care museum objects -
Introduction from a local expert about the objects in the museum -
Photographing an object (near view) -
Photographing an object
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At the end of the sessions, there were outcomes from the two-day event, specifically the photographs of the museum collections, which can be accessed in Category:Images from Museum Dr. (H.C) Oemboe Hina Kapita.
Lesson learned
There are lesson(s) we learned during this grant period:
- Conducting Wikisource training sessions should not be done once in a month. Seeing the low participation in the previous session in May, there should be done once in two or three months, even though we surely the participation will be the same. Another aspect, we believed, affected the lower participation was it was done in Ramadan month when most of the Indonesian people were fasting and likely would not attend the session, albeit we provided meals for their fasting break.
- We have noted in our midterm report that there was a fault, where we did not put expenses for Wikisource training sessions in the grant budget. This was also one of the reasons why we conducted once Wikisource training session only, for the expenses in May sessions were taken from the WikiLatih budget line. This matter we will take notice in the future, particularly when we are planning budget lines in our grant proposal.