Pastoreando procomunes desde 1994 — Shepherding the commons since 1994 - just the English posts
Wikimedia Hackathon 2025. This year I have again received a grant from the WMF to attend to the annual Wikimedia Hackathon , this year is in Istanbul . I’m very grateful to them. Since 2024 I’m very interested in the Wikibase platform since we are using it at LaOficina and is a main topic for the DHwiki WG . I’m not going into details but, from the very beginning, my first thoughs of involvement…
At LaOficina we are currently working on a project to digitize family photographs and one of the challenges is the correct traceability of intellectual property. In this case we have encountered the difficulty of knowing the exact conditions of the received material, a situation that is not new and which is already addressed by the RightsStatements vocabulary, which includes 12 terms that are…
Now this website uses a simple statistics system which is GDPR compatible and privacy friendly. It uses Libre Counter which not need user registration neither configuration beyond adding some code like this: <a href= "https://librecounter.org/referer/show" target= "_blank" > <img src= "https://librecounter.org/unique.svg" alt= "GPDR friendly statistics" width= "14" style= "filter: grayscale(1);"…
This is a project update for the SGS Pilot 1 project. This is a WMF funded project ( ID: 22444585 ). They have been created two relevant places: Phabricator: VerySmallGLAM · Workboard Meta: Very Small GLAM You can observe que are now using the coined term «Very Small GLAM». This will be the activity scope from now as we consider it short and and precise. The Small GLAM Slam denomination will be…
Just a little update about my activity around the Wikimedia Movement. As said in this blog, I have been invited to guide a workshop on Wikibase at the Murcia University . Also, I’ve sent two poster proposals for Wikimania 2024 : Towards a Very Small GLAM entities solution : This proposal proposes an activity line for empowering very small GLAM entities with limited resources to preserve and…
Just keeping up to date with a talk I gave twice past year. I’m very proud of the work but never shared here neither in my Wikidata User:Olea page. As a brief introduction, for some time I did a significant work importing to Wikidata the CDDA database of European protected areas as I found we have them completely infra represented. I have previous experience with historical heritage but this…
Related with the previous post, I have pending too to publish my notes about my experience importing, sorting and cleaning the descriptions of the rich Andalusian historical heritage. Our friends of Wikimedia Portugal invited and sponsored my travel to Lisboa to share my, sometimes sad, practical experience in their excellent Wikidata Days 2023 meeting. I used this invitation as a motivation to…
Just for the record: For our SMALL GLAM SLAM project we have received a donated HP Z400 Workstation . It’s has a Xeon CPU and can host 24Gb of ECC RAM, which seems appropiate for the project needs. But I found an annoying trouble installing Linux with a USB stick. It took me more than hour to search in the Internet for a solution. Now I just write here for the record and hoping the next one in…
A fast update of thing happening to me in the Wikimedia Movement in the last weeks: We asked for a WM Rapid Grant for a new project we have conceptualized at LaOficina : SMALL GLAM SLAM Pilot 1 , to low entry barriers of software and practices adoption for very small GLAM organizations . Also, I have been granted an scholarship to attend the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 event next May in Tallinn. And,…