Wikimedia Nigeria/FindingGLAMs in Nigeria/Report

This page is dedicated to reporting FindingGLAMs organized in Nigeria.

General overview

Group photograph of the FindingGLAMs workshop at Kenneth Library, University of Ibadan.

Group photograph of the participants at Nimbe Adedipe Library, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta.

FindingGLAMs is a project organized by Wikimedia Sverige (Sweden) in building a truly worldwide database of cultural heritage institutions and their collections on Wikipedia, the largest and most popular educational site in the world. It will empower cultural organizations to share their knowledge and content with the world through collaboration, training, documentation and case studies in Nigeria and also lay the groundwork for a long term and sustainable collaboration between cultural organisations and the Wikimedia movement (the organizations behind Wikipedia and other free educational websites).

Scope

FindingGLAMs in Nigeria was designed to introduce Librarians to Wikidata and its usefulness for Library Studies. More so, to create visibility to Library in Nigeria on Wikidata.

Partnership

The program was organised in Nigeria by Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc. in conjunction with :

• Kenneth Dike Library, University of Ibadan (KDL)
• Nimbe Adedipe Library, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (NAL)

Organizing team

Team	User Names
Project Coordinator One	Olaniyan Olushola
Project Coordinator Two	Kaizenify

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
If at least 2 workshops took place	2 workshops took place at Kenneth Dike Library, University of Ibadan and Nimbe Adedipe Library
If at least 120 participants attended the 2 workshops took place	Only 83 librarians attended the 2 workshops	This is due to the clash of official engagements of some of the invited librarians with the workshops

Metrics

Perfromance Graph at FUNAAB

Performance Graph at Kenneth Dike Library

Wikimedia Outreach Dashboard

• Programs: 2
• Editor; 83 but only 59 were able to login into the dashboard due to internet lapses
• Words Added: 37.1K
• Article Edited 124
• Article Created 91
• References Added: 55
• Articles View: 100k

Learning

Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:

• What worked well?

1. Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc's partnership with the two mentioned Universities provided an avenue for working with Librarians
2. Gifts were giving to librarians with the highest contribution during the workshop. This initiative helps to increase the contributions of the participants.
3. Outreach dashboard was deployed to measure metrics of the workshop.
4. certificates of participation were issued to all the participants as evidence of participation at the workshop.

• What did not work so well?

1. . Unlike Nimbe Adedipe Library, the majority of the librarians at KDL were seeing Wikidata for the very first time so it took a long time to introduce them to the project.
2. . Quality internet connectivity was a major challenge as it was very poor and hence limit the progress.
3. . Library like Kenneth Dike Library experienced complete power failure which slowed down the pace of progress of the workshop.

Anything else

Is there anything else you want to share about the conference or event?

The knowledge gap within the Library system in Nigeria is enormous and the two universities are willing to work with us for another round of the GLAM related project. We, therefore, identify the following likely projects:

• Adding Bibliography of authors with published journals to Wikidata.
• Adding of published academics journals to Wikidata for citations
• Nigeria is the largest country in Africa with over 700+ Universities and each institution has at least a functioning academic library.

We are hoping to organise a conference where stakeholders in Library studies in Nigeria will be exposed to the importance of structured data in the Library.

Photo galery

KDL: See more photos here

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  Presentation of throw pillow to the University Librarian Dr.Helen Komolafe-Opadeji
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  Olaniyan Olushola taking a session at the workshop
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  Ayokanmi Oyeyemi taking a session at the workshop
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  Participants at the workshop
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  Presentation of certificate
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  Group photograph
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  Group Photograph
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  Participants at the workshop
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  A aerial view of the workshop
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  Presentation of throw-pillow gift to the partisans with the highest contributions.
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  Presentation of T-shirt to other contributors as gift.
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  Group selfie photograph of the Wikimedia Nigeria volunteer group who managed the workshop

NAL: See more photos here

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  Presentation of gift to Dr. FN. Onifade, the University librarian, NAL
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  Presentation of gift to the contributor with the highest contribution at NAL
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  Some participants at the workshop
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  Presentation by Olaniyan Olushola
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  Presentation by Ayokanmi Oyeyemi
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  Cross section of some of the participants
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  Cross section of some of the participants
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  Olaniyan Olushola presenting a throwpillow gift to the best participant

Finance

Printing Services for Inv 006785

Date	Description of Items	Vendor	Reference No	USD	Remarks
16th Jan. 2020	Supply of Power Device for the Workshops	CRYPTI ENter	0062	162
17th Jan. 2020	Catering Services for 120 pple	Olbims Serv	0094	1080
17th Jan. 2020	Printing Services for Inv 006785	SAYCOL	00358	288.23
17th Jan. 2020	Supply of data Plan- 60GB	Sandwich ICT	015177	196.66
Local Transportl				80.00
Total				1806