Very Small GLAM

The Very Small GLAM term identifies GLAM entities of very small size. How small? It's inspired from the concept of VSE (very small entities) coined for the ISO/IEC 29110 series (Q719751) and applied to software development entities up to 25 members. To set a focus we, a bit arbitrarily, chose the number 5 as «up to 5» members of an institution or team working in GLAM. Very Small GLAM is not restricted to Open GLAM, but Open GLAM would probably be the best approach or complement for this teams with not so much resources.

Our goal is to reduce entry barriers for very small GLAM entities, existing or new others, to set up their IT systems, to adopt high-grade professional practices to:

• help to breaking down barriers among various collections;
• facilitate access to new and diverse collections for interdisciplinary and cross-collection research;
• expand access for researchers and the public beyond geographical confines;
• serve a broad spectrum of audiences for mutual benefit;
• and to nourish and grow the digital commons of humanities.

At this moment this is structured by the SMALL GLAM SLAM Pilot 1 project funded by the WMF (ID: 22444585).

To focus the development, the project is setting up the IT infrastructure for the future cinema documentation center, as a new activity line in LaOficina. The first tasks are related to the archiving of the multimedia resources collected in the realization of the «Memorias del Cine» project. So, the first GLAM facets are archiving, digitization and data preservation.

• WP1—IT system developed with the NAS killer concept with a free software stack for GLAM, task T363818;
• WP2—configuration for a locally installed Wikibase suite, task T363819;
• WP3—GLAM ontologies and vocabularies, task T363820;
• WP4—GLAM practices, task T363821;
• WP5—data import, task T363822.

• Péricles Dias de Oliveira
• Ismael Olea, coordinator

Both are employed by LaOficina Producciones Culturales (Q113320103). To contact the team you can use Phabricator or reach Ismael by Telegram or mail.

• Grant proposal (ID: 22444585)
• project workboard in Phabricator
• and related blog posts at olea.org.

• 2024年04月26日

• GLAM