GLAM Toolset training April 2015

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Wikimedia UK is running training sessions to how people how to use the GLAM Toolset for mass uploads to Wikimedia Commons.

  • Venue: Wikimedia UK 4th floor, Development house, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT
  • Trainer: Ally Crockford

Course content

Attendees will learn how to use the mass upload tool to import files into Wikimedia Commons where those files are already on the Internet and the metadata is in xml format (manipulating metadata into xml format and loading files not available on the web may be covered in a future training session). Mapping Metadata from xml to Commons will be covered.

Prerequisites

To benefit from this training you need:

  • a working knowledge of the category structure on Wikimedia Commons
  • to bring a laptop, or book one from GLAM@Wikimedia.org.uk
  • to register yourself for Toolset user rights on Commons Beta

Expenses & Subsistence

Tea and coffee will be available. Food will not be provided.

Funding for this event is extremely limited, so we will not be able to provide expenses to attendees. However, please contact daria.cybulska@wikimedia.org.uk if you work or volunteer for a major institution, or have a track record of working with mass digitisation projects or large cultural institutions, and we may be able to help.

Sign up

There are two identical sittings. If you can make one please sign that section, if you can make either please sign both indicating a first or second choice.

Sitting 1 - Tuesday 7th April

This session will run from 18:30 to 20:30.

  1. AdamBMorgan (talk/meta) 22:16, 24 March 2015 (GMT)
  2. Jonathan Cardy (WMUK) (talk) 13:57, 25 March 2015 (GMT)
  3. Tristan Hill 16:47, 25 March 2015 (GMT)

Sitting 2 - Wednesday 8th April

This session will run from 11:00 to 13:00.

  1. Jason Evans
  2. Siân Thomas
  3. John Cummings
  4. Daria Cybulska (tbc, first day back from leave, may not be able to confirm before the day)

Apologies

Sign below if you would like to attend but can't make either date.

  • --MichaelMaggs (talk) 09:23, 28 March 2015 (GMT)
  • Possibly the 7th, but I'm flying the next day, so probably not. Johnbod (talk) 17:20, 30 March 2015 (BST)
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