Explainer: What does the Wikimedia coordinator of the KB  do in practice?
Channel: ODJ
Date: 03/11/2023

What does the Wikimedia coordinator of the national library of the Netherlands (KB) do in practice?

Explanation of some of the things I do in my role as KB's Wikimedia coordinator. 
KB Team meeting on 2 November 2023. 
Video in Dutch. 

- 00:01 📚 The Wikimedia coordinator of the KB is working on the development of the KB's digital library, with a focus on Wikipedia projects, image repositories and metadata.
- 02:05 🌐 The Wikimedia projects are seen as a cohesive infrastructure and social machine where technology and communities of people come together, creating a free, open-access infrastructure.
- 03:15 💡 The KB contributes to making collections visible, findable and reusable in the social machine of Wikimedia, sharing source material with communities of content creators.
- 05:19 🌍 The coordinator ensures that images and metadata from the KB collection are made available on Wikimedia Commons for the global Wikimedia community of more than 100,000 content creators and for heritage institutions, science and education.
- 06:49 🤖 AI is used to find and use information from Wikimedia Commons and other projects, making the KB's collections more widely accessible.
- 08:00 🤝 The Wikimedia Coordinator acts as a relationship manager between the KB and the Wikimedia community, facilitating Wiki events and supporting content creators.
- 09:38 📋 The coordinator also acts as an advisor and consultant, offering knowledge and experience to internal colleagues and external GLAM institutions, and exploring opportunities for collaboration.
- 10:35 📚 Courses, workshops and training are given to make heritage institutions and the Wikimedia community aware of the possibilities of Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- 11:30 📈 Periodic measurements of KPIs show the impact of the work, such as sharing KB images globally on Wikimedia projects, and reports and articles are written to communicate this impact. See Zenodo links below.
- 12:41 For more information about his role and activities, interested parties can consult the KB website (https://www.kb.nl/over-ons/projecten/wikipedia-wikimedia)

Relevant links
* Social machine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_machine
* Expert page Olaf Janssen - https://www.kb.nl/over-ons/experts/olaf-janssen
* Wikipedia, Wikidata en Wikimedia Commons - https://www.kb.nl/over-ons/projecten/wikipedia-wikimedia
* Three reuse indicators for KB images in Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, in a historical perspective (2013-2022) - https://zenodo.org/records/7491592
* Detecting Wikipedia articles strongly based on single library collections - https://zenodo.org/records/7433549

Image credits
* Tallest Man on Earth - https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexreside/3624657884/sizes/l
* Olaf Janssen at GLAM WIKI Tel Aviv Conference 2018 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olaf_Janssen_at_GLAM_WIKI_Tel_Aviv_Conference_2018.JPG - Wikimedia Israel`; Sivan Shachor, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
* No no no , Margaret Thatcher - https://ds.static.rtbf.be/image/media/object/default/16x9/1920x1080/0/4/b/04bc1ec8dccae50a38345dd4b091c1eb.jpg