Situation

Needs and assets, problems, stakeholders...

Enhance the use of geographic materials in Wikimedia projects
Provide avenues for GLAMs to allow reuse of their materials
Provide resources and tools for amateur & academic historians
Promote the use of open materials in the Humanities

Priorities

Mission, vision, values, mandates, resources, local dynamics, collaborators...

Open Source
International, multilingual, multicultural
Bottom-up, third sector, volunteer-driven
Reciprocity, mutual benefit of organizations and users

Inputs	Outputs		Outcomes
Resources	Activities What	Participation Who	Immediate	Intermediate	Long-term
- Manage maps metadata well using the Map template - Aim for structured metadata for the maps in Wikidata or Commons - Foster maps batch uploads with institutions (structured metadata) - Advance geospatial and textual search for maps - Use maps in Wikipedias, engage volunteers	Make rectified historical maps available in Wikimedia Commons	Amateur historians, app developers	Amateur historians find compelling materials that they can use in their research of specific locations	Make collecting and displaying historical geographic data fun and easy for everyone	Promote contributing to open repositories and opening one’s hobbyist research for collaborative action.
		Wikipedia	Have available a rich collection of visual geographically aware materials	Be able to illustrate Wikipedia in new ways. Historical as well as maps (geo) in general	Enhances the quality and usefulness of Wikipedia
		GLAMs	Provide an avenue to expose cultural artefacts to wide audiences and invite them to contribute to interpreting them	Promote new ways of gathering and disseminating institutional knowledge.	Promote the use of open cultural heritage resources, promote reciprocity as a motivational factor.
		Scholars	Will be able to combine materials from several repositories in their research	Learn to accept non-academic resources and sources	Promote the use of geographic materials in (Humanities) research
Contiue hosting and developing MapWarper	Have an accessible tool for georectifying in Wikimedia	Volunteers, amateur historians, maps buffs	Have access to easy geo tools	Contribute to open repositories while working	There will be richer data that will be expressed in applications, remixes, productions and studies for education, planning, leisure, business, communications and is available for further study and reuse.
		GLAMs	Labour-intensive work to geolocate maps can be shared with volunteers	Unlock data on old maps and documents more rapidly
		Civil servants	Allows initiating public open crowdsourced projects that will benefit wider communities	Data can be used by other types of projects
	Connect a variety of tools in the same open “maker space” (a website or a toolpack) - MapWarper - OpenHistoricalMap - Tools for images - Use Wikidata to store historical data for places - and more	Developers, companies, research groups, governmental organizations	Enables collaborative historical research, builds upon collected resources from repositories all over the web	Creates a space and tools to access and enrich open historical geographic documents from different sources	Creates a true cultural Commons where mutual resources are used to benefit all.
		Volunteers, amateur historians, maps buffs, civil service professionals	Remixing, recontextualizing, researching for a variety of purposes.	Returning enriched data that benefits many other purposes
Categorizing Structured data for Commons Bridging between OSM/OHM & Wikimedia	Interconnect materials across projects based on time and location	All users	Be able to visualize historical things around one’s location	Be able to investigate the knowledge spheres from the first person perspective – here, me	(Re)create a sense of place for education, travel, research, time-travel... Strengthening cultural identities.
Develop Metapipe transformation tool Connect wit GWToolset and the new IEG upload tool project	The metadata enhancement tool Metapipe	Uploaders: GLAMs / Wikimedia volunteers / chapters	Help make organizational metadata suitable for several open repositories and reuse previous transformations made by the users	Provide same data to different repositories: Commons, Wikidata, Flickr, Ajapaik, Mapillary will help synchronizing between them.	Make opening content default practice for GLAMs.
	The metadata enhancement tool Metapipe	Users of the uploaded objects	Make more use of metadata recorded with the archival objects when it is well formatted.	Allows rich connections across repositories.	Make the maps findable, connected, allow reuse.
	Wikimedia enhancements: - Map template - Template conversion gadget - Map display for articles	Wikipedians, Wikimedians	Find missing parts in bringing data to Wikimaps and back	Make data usable for Wikimaps and make data produced and linked in Wikimaps usable for Wikimedia
	Wikimaps API	Developers	Is needed to create a new interface	Makes the Warper widely available to applications and its own user interface	Warper usable by 3rd party applications
	Decoupling Wikimaps application parts: UI, control point interface, cropping, transformations etc.	Developers	Makes it easier for developers to contribute to the codebase	More up-to-date features will be implemented by developers	Contributes to the vitality and sustainability of the project
	New Wikimaps user interface	Volunteers, users	Is needed to make using the tool attractive and easy to use	Makes the Warper widely available for volunteers
	Enable OHM with Commons maps	Historical mappers at large	A way to get information from maps, names, vectors, change		This is a resource for WIkimedia and other research

Assumptions

Wikimedia is a neutral and stable environment for hosting historical documents
It will be possible to work with several open source projects together in producing and cross-referencing the tools and knowledge.
Academic and public sector users will show growing interest when the environment gets more stable. They will be interested in the participatory channel the environment provides for enriching their original materials.
Sustainability: Collaboratively maintaining the data is more sustainable. Collaboratively enriching the data will be more efficient than hosting niche projects (governmental, hobbyist, academic)

External factors

The strength of the historical mapping and developer community. This project can help create and sustain it. Wikimedia mapping community is small, but this project seeks to reach outside the Wikimedia community as well.
Resistance: Academic projects may look for control that is not guaranteed with open projects and look for commercial providers. Commercial actors will see a business opportunity in creating similar tools. The public sector is relatively well aligned and geared towards the open.
Scoping: Notability and original research guidelines pose challenges. Wikimedia should be considered a secondary source, which helps align the project within other projects.
Resources, quality: Project based funding adds volatility and threatens the stability of the environment for established partners to gain trust.

Evaluation

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