Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Enhancing ArtBase with Snowman:Improving Access and Control for Sensitive Information

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Enhancing ArtBase with Snowman: Improving Access and Control for Sensitive Information
start date2023-06-01
end date2024-06-01
budget (local currency) 
amount requested (USD)0 USD
grant typeNonprofit organization with Wikimedia mission
funding regionunknown region
decision fiscal year2023-24
funding program roundundefined round
applicant and people related to proposalThousandsofcolors
organization (if applicable)Rhizome Communications Inc.

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Applicant details[edit]

Wikimedia username(s):

Thousandsofcolors

Organization:

Rhizome Communications Inc.

G. Have you received grants from the Wikimedia Foundation before?

Did not apply previously

H. Have you received grants from any non-wiki organization before?

Yes

H.1 Which organization(s) did you receive grants from?

Mellon Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Knight Foundation, and others.

M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?

No

M1. Fiscal organization name.

N/A

Additional information[edit]

R. Where will this proposal be implemented?

United States of America

S. Please indicate whether your work will be focused on one country (local), more than one or several countries in your region (regional) or has a cross-regional (global) scope:

International

S1. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

T. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has. (optional)

https://rhizome.org

https://wbstakeholder.group/

M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?

No

M1. Fiscal organization name.

N/A

Proposal[edit]

1. What is the overall vision of your organization and how does this proposal contribute to this? How does this proposal connect to past work and learning?

Rhizome has been the home of digital art since 1996. Founded by artist Mark Tribe, the organization began as an informal online community that included some of the first artists who created art for the web. Today, Rhizome is a non-profit that has played an integral role in the past, present, and future of contemporary art engaged with digital technologies and the internet, and its recorded and social memory.

In 1999, Rhizome established the ArtBase, an archive of digital art that has served as a resource for online and offline exhibitions, scholarship, and artistic inspiration. Rhizome develops archival approaches that are effective on the infrastructure level, with the intention to support not only Rhizome’s ArtBase, but a broader network of care—digital archives everywhere, for everyone.

In 2021 Rhizome made its ArtBase archive available to the public as an LOD repository. Rhizome made a groundbreaking adaptation of Wikibase, the open source framework for LOD that also powers Wikidata, to allow it to suit this purpose. In the process of developing this, Rhizome began to lead a field-wide conversation about Wikibase in the GLAM sector, coordinating the Wikibase Stakeholder Group (WBSG), which commissions production & maintenance of open source extensions to Wikibase.

2. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important?

Rhizome sees tremendous potential in the use of Wikibase to support a decentralized LOD ecosystem. For a wide range of reasons, knowledge stewardship in diverse human cultures cannot follow a one-size fits all approach, and the Rhizome ArtBase is a working example of how Wikibase can support a specialized but still linked and open dataset.

While Artbase functions as a proof-of-concept for this approach, key issues have emerged relating to frontend display: showing relationships among items, handling sensitive information such as content warnings, and optimizing usability for diverse audiences. For example, we want to offer content warnings and accessibility information about Wikibase entries, but we do not want this included in our linked data set.

Rhizome is using Wikibase to present ArtBase online. All Wikimedia software, including Wikibase, is designed to make all data available for public inspection. It doesn’t have any capability to merge private and public data sources.

Rhizome believes that this upgrade and control solution will be useful for other institutions and communities who need to manage and control sensitive information and offer LOD in a user-friendly format.

3. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

To address the technical issue described above, Rhizome plans to integrate snowman, a SPARQL-driven site generator developed by Albin Larsson, into ArtBase's frontend, and to communicate about this as a way of encouraging other organizations to adopt Wikibase. This upgrade project also involves commissioning new features for Snowman.

4. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?


5. Do you want to apply for multi-year funding?      

No

5.1 If yes, provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan?

N/A

6. Please include a timeline (operational calendar) for your proposal.

7. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?


8. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Content Gender gap, Sexual Orientation, Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial

8.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.


9. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.

Culture, heritage or GLAM , Open Technology

10. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Please note, we had previously asked about inclusion and diversity in terms of CONTENTS, in this question we are asking about the diversity of PARTICIPANTS. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background

11. What are your strategies for engaging participants, particularly those that currently are non-Wikimedia?


12. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants and promoting the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy, and/or equivalent local policies and processes?

We have found that

13. Do you have plans to work with Wikimedia communities, groups, or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?


13.1 If yes, please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.


14. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?


14.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.

N/A

15. How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?


16. What kind of risks do you anticipate and how would you mitigate these. This can include factors such as external/contextual issues that may affect implementation, as well as internal issues, such as governance/leadership changes.

17. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of three options that most apply.


18. Please state if your organization or group has a Strategic Plan that can help us further understand your proposal. You can also upload it here.  

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]

19. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?


20. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following space provided.

Main Metrics Description Target
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A

Here are some additional metrics that you can use if they are relevant to your work. Please note that this is just an optional list, mostly of quantitative metrics. They may complement the qualitative metrics you have defined in the previous boxes.

Additional Metrics Description Target
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities N/A N/A
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities N/A N/A
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability N/A N/A
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors N/A N/A
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees N/A N/A
Number of people reached through social media publications N/A N/A
Number of activities developed N/A N/A
Number of volunteer hours N/A N/A

21. Additional core quantitative metrics. These core metrics will not tell the whole story about your work, but they are important for measuring some Movement-wide changes. Please try to include these core metrics if they are relevant to your work. If they are not, please use the space provided to explain why they are not relevant or why you can not capture this data. Your explanation will help us review our core metrics and make sure we are using the best ones for the movement as a whole.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants N/A N/A
Number of editors N/A N/A
Number of organizers N/A N/A
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A
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N/A N/A N/A

21.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

N/A

22. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?


Financial Proposal[edit]

23. & 23.1 What is the amount you are requesting from WMF? Please provide this amount in your local currency. If you are thinking about a multi-year fund, please provide the amount for the first year.

 

23.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

0 USD

23.3 Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

23.4 Please include any additional observations or comments you would like to include about your budget.

N/A

Please use this optional space to upload any documents that you feel are important for further understanding your proposal.

Other public document(s):

Final Message[edit]

By submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

No


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