THIS IS NOW NOT THE MOST RECENT VERSION. THIS IS NOW BEING DEVELOPED IN GOOGLEDOCS.
GLAM Metrics Proposal
Creating workshop group:
Fae - WM-UK
Maarten D - WM-NL
Maarten Z - CC-NL
Maarten B - WM-NL
Aude (Katie) - WM-DC
Dan Eldridge- NY
Sumana - WMF (observer)
General question: Where do we want this to live? For now on Etherpad, after the reviews it will go public (in a semi-finished state).
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PROJECT BRIEF
Purpose of this document
Mission
Credible statistics for the effect of GLAM partnerships with Wikimedia.
Benefits
Provide the arguments for this project
* Coherent, maintainable and authoritative tools and public metrics datasets.
* Trends and impact assessement for GLAM institutions
Risks
* Lack of coordination/bid manager (estimated at 4 hours a week)
* Lack of Chapter involvement.
* Perceived lack of Community involvement.
* Broadening the scope for general statistics? This is meant for GLAMs!
* Acquiring funding.
* Lack of control over the Toolserver.
* Availability of Wikimedia Labs.
* Sustainability of the Metrics, after the project.
* Availability of the data. (privacy concerns, for example)
Stakeholders and Communications
Stakeholders involved in the project brief
* Chapters
** Wikimedia UK
** Wikimedia NL
** Wikimedia France: Jean-Frederic? Benoit? Adrienne? (just suggestions)
** Wikimedia Deutschland: Mattias? Daniel? (just suggestions)
** Wiki DC / Wikimedia NYC
** Other active chapters? (Request at the cultural partners list)
* WMF (Erik Zachte)
* Online Wikimedia community (at a certain point though Signpost and Village Pumps)
* Selection primary GLAM partners (reviewers, response deadline)
** NL Images for the Future
** UK British Museum
** US Library of Congress
** France GLAM (to be decided)
** German GLAM (to be decided)
** AU Powerhouse Museum
* Toolserver administration
Review panel:
Communication channels:
- Mail list, primarily cultural partners list.
- Wikimania presentation slot (should be arranged)
Project Stakeholders
- Europeana (EU)
- Culture24 (UK)
- Toolserver
Expected Outcomes
* Supporting public database of metrics.
* Toolbox of GLAM metric reporting.
* Verifiable impact assessement to support future proposals and partnerships.
Constraints
* Balancing transparency and privacy (further review required)
**Individual contributor privacy
**GLAM privacy on hit counts
* Timing
** Early drops of code/prototyping (agile model)
** Project to last no more that 8 months from proposal
* Open source
* Multi-lingual friendly
Product Breakdown Structure
* Database
** Database connections schema (interfacing)
** Metrics database
* Metrics API
* Toolbox
** GUI
** Analysis toolkit
* Testing
** Test plan
** Acceptance plan
* Change request process (bugtracker)
** Change review process
** Error reporting database
** Known error database
* Manual
** Maintenance guides
** Operational and maintenance guide
** Operational plan
** Service agreement (
guaranteed)
Critical Success factors
* WMF commitment and approval of the plan
* Finding a funds manager in advance of project manager
* Finding Bid Manager
* Finding Project Manager
* Finding a Developer
* Finding a Graphical User Interface Designer
Milestone plan
June 2011 - Request for review
August 2011 - Project presentation (Wikimania), proposal accepted, budget released
September 2011 - Project launch
November 2011 - Proof-of-concept release
December 2011 - Stakeholder review
Februrary 2012 - Prototype
March 2012 - User testing, Stakeholder review
April 2012 - Release, launch event
Cost Breakdown (Euros)
[Costs are an initial expert estimate]
Staff 130k
*3 people:
** Project Manager x 1 day per week
** Developer 1x full time 8 months
** GUI Designer x 1 month
Infrastructure 50k
Communications 20k
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Further steps
* Liam (WMF) will be responsible for chasing a bid manager, if MaartenD his attempt with Wikimedia Germany will fail.
