| Institution
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Resident’s name
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Date of report
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| National Library of Wales
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Jason Evans
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Jan 2015 - Permanent
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October 2017
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3/11/2017
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Projects delivered
Strategic Goal 1
Increase the quality and quantity of coverage of subjects that are currently underrepresented on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
Progress
- Ongoing discussions with NHS Wales about releasing Welsh encyclopaedia content on an Open licence.
- Discussions with MIND UK about releasing Welsh language content on an open licence.
- Discussions with Stacy Allison-Cassin, W.P. Scott Chair in E-Librarianship at Scott Library, York about taking on an unpaid residency/visiting scholar role at the National Library of Wales in 2018.
- Meeting with Literature Wales and University of Wales Press about releasing text of the Welsh Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia
- Meeting with Sophie Ann of Meddwl.org about releasing Mental health guidance from their website on Wicipedia.
Events
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| Welsh Encyclopedia release meeting
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5/10/17 for 1 hour
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Literature Wales / University of Wales Press
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Cardiff Bay
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Terry Jackson, Natalie Williams, Lleucu Siencyn, Ianto Brychan
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| Meeting about machine translation of Welsh terms for Wikidata & Wicipedia
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9/10/17 for 2 hours
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Welsh Language Technology Unit, Bangor Uni
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Bangor
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Delyth Prys, Dr Tegau Andrews, Dewi Jones, Stefano Ghazzali, Gruff Prys
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| Meeting about sharing content from Meddwl.org to Wicipedia
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12/10/17 for 30 min
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Meddwl.org
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National Library of Wales
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Sophie Ann
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Data Uploads
- 194 new wikidata items for artworks at NLW (3638 edits)
- 185 images from Drawing Volumes uploaded. You can find them here
- BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
- Sep – Page Views - 13,773,939
- GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Oct 31st ) - 52.14%
Strategic Goal 2
Support the development of open knowledge in the UK, by increasing the understanding and recognition of the value of open knowledge and advocating for change at an organisational, sectoral and public policy level
Progress
- Trade stand at ‘More than Words’ event in Cardiff aimed at improving Welsh language access to health information.
- Welsh Medical society conference talk about the Wiki health project
- Meeting about the HLF funded Uwchgwyrfau Wiki based history project.
- Spoke at the Wikidata Conference about on ‘Wikidata loves GLAMs’
- Agreed to provide training for an Editathon in Swansea University in the new year.
Events
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Date and Duration
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Location
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No. of Attendees
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Links
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| More than Words event
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3/10/17 for 6 hours
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Cardiff City Stadium
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100
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| Welsh Medical Society Conference presentation
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15/10/17 for 30 minutes
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Llandeilo
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50
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| WikidataCon Presentation ‘Wikidata loves GLAMs’
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28/10/17 for 30 minutes
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Berlin
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50
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Video
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| Advocacy meeting with Berlin State Library
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28/10/17 for 1 hour
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Berlin State Library
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Berlin
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Clemens Neudecker
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| Meeting with potential visiting scholar/academic wishing to help NLW develop Wikidata applications
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28/10/17 for 1 hour
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York University, Canada
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Berlin
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Stacy Allison-Cassin
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Strategic Goal 3
To support the use of the Wikimedia projects as important tools for education and learning in the UK
- The Wikidata Visiting Scholar is beginning work on a new project to add all known historical Welsh publishers to Wikidata and connect them with existing Wikidata items. You can see more here
- Using Wikipedia to translate content as part of individual assignments is being trialed on the Welsh translation course at Aberystwyth University.
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Volunteer projects
96.5 hours logged (excludes visiting scholars)
- 1 Volunteer is now working on the Welsh Journals project, creating stub articles for important Welsh Journals. 6 articles have been created to date*
- 5 Volunteers are now working on the Dictionary of Welsh Biography/Welsh Journals project, creating stub articles using entries from DWB or Welsh Journals as a source. 344 articles have been created to date.
- 4 Volunteers are working on translating English articles to Welsh (currently focused on the Wiki Health project ). 38 articles have been created to date.
More information about projects held with the NLW volunteer team can be found here
Projects in development
- Dictionary of Welsh Biography - A request for funding is being considered by the library to contract a third party developer to create a bespoke interface/timeline to visualize and explore the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. The interface would be powered by Wikidata and images from Wiki Commons and would link to Dictionary of Welsh Biography and Wikipedia content. This would cement the libraries commitment to contributing to Wikimedia projects and making use of Wikimedia services and content to develop its own innovative online infrastructure.
Historic statistics
- BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
- July – Page Views - 13,125,805.
- Aug – Page Views - 13,245,583
- Sep – Page Views - 13,773,939
- GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Sept 5th ) - 50.75%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Oct 2nd ) - 51%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Oct 31st ) - 52.14%