York University Libraries GLAM Page

Welcome to the York University Libraries GLAM Page. This page brings together different Wiki programming, projects, and contributions by YUL librarians and archivists.

Programming

Upcoming events

Annual Black History Edit-a-thon.
Annual Ada Loveless Day Edit-a-thon

Past events

Annual Black History Edit-a-thon. February 2024. Online.
Black History Edit-a-thon. February 2023. Online.
Ada Lovelace Day Women in Science Edit-a-thon. November 3, 2022, 12-3pm. Online.
Black History Edit-a-thon. February 2022. Online.
International Women's Day. Friday, March 8th, 2020, 12-3 pm, Room 530, Scott Library
#1Lib1Ref / #1Bib1Ref. Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020, 12-1:30 pm, Room 530, Scott Library. Event page
#1Lib1Ref / #1Bib1Ref. Thursday, January 16th, 2020, 10:30-12 pm, Room 530, Scott Library. Event page
Earth Day iNaturalist event. April, 2020.
Ada Lovelace Day, Steacie Library, November 1, 2019, 12pm to 4pm
International Women’s Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Scott Library, March 8, 2019, 12 pm to 4 p.m
1lib1ref CAN19, Scott Library
IndigiWiki Goes to the Junos, Toronto Reference Library, March 22, 2018

Press coverage

"York Libraries hosts edit-a-thon to improve digital coverage of Black excellence" YFile: York University news, 8 February 2023.
"Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of women’s achievements in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)." YFile: York University news. 26 October 2022.
"Next generation of York librarians and archivists work to address critical gap in Black content" YFile: York University news, 4 February 2022.
Chiasson, Paul. "Volunteers work to bolster Canadian women's biographies on wikipedia" National Post. Mar 8 2019.
Students inspired by York University Libraries make impressive edits to Wikipedia (yFile article)

Instructional workshops

AP/CLTR3140 - Digital Culture in the Humanities, "Slow Violence dataset Edit-a-thon: Unmasking Violence: Artists Imagining Finer Futurities (by Kayla Saunders – Department of Gender and Women’s Studies), Introduction to Wikipedia and Data Visualization," 2022 and 25 October 2023
AP/HIST 4054 - Slavery, the Underground Railroad and Resistance: Ontario's African Canadian Past before 1918, "Introduction to editing Wikipedia," 6 February 2023

Projects

Archives and special collections

The Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections preserves more than 8,000 metres of archival records and 100,000 items in special collections. The holdings are strong in the areas of literature and fine arts, film and television, and politics, social reform, and labour movements.

Wikipedia

Goal: create pages for red linked donors and integrate information from holdings to related Wikipedia articles

Wikidata

Goal: "archives at" property added to donors Wikidata items
400+ of 700+ completed (on pause)(see Item Quality Evaluator)
Dependencies: finalize migration of finding aids to AtoM

Wikimedia Commons

See Category:Images from the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections
Goal: Upload digitized material that is in the public domain
Dependencies: finalize migration of digitized material to Islandora 8

Presentations and other publications

Cohen-Palacios, Katrina. "First bulk upload to Wikimedia Commons a success thanks to emerging public historians" News from the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, 16 March 2021.
Cohen-Palacios, Katrina. "Wikidata and archivists" presented at the Archives Association of Ontario (AAO) Institutional Issues Forum, Toronto, Ontario, 24 October 2019.

Government of Canada Wikipedia edits

Twitter bot @gccaedits automated by Nick Ruest

Git Hub: This repository contains the configurations for the IP ranges used for @gccaedits, and is the new home of the Gist file used for community contributions.
Dataset: This release contains the final Twitter archive requests of the @gccaedits account through April 18, 2023.

Press coverage

External Links

YUL Resources

York University Libraries website
York University Digital Library (digitized content)
York University Libraries at the Internet Archive (digitized content)
Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections descriptive database
Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections blog

Research and coverage of activities

Papers, presentations, and other forms of research from YUL

Leena Hussein and Alana Brown, “Black History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Placement at York University,” NCPH History@Work, 5 March 2024, https://ncph.org/history-at-work/black-history-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-placement-at-york-university/
Alanna Brown, Katrina Cohen-Palacios, and Alexandra Wong. “Perspectives on Wiki-based student placements programs,” WikiConference North America, Toronto Reference Library, Toronto, Ontario, 9-12 November 2023.
Association of Research Libraries Task Force. (2019). ARL White Paper on Wikidata Opportunities and Recommendations. Association of Research Libraries.PDF
Jamie Lee Morin, "IndigiWiki Goes to the Junos" (blog post), 2018, http://www.library.yorku.ca/web/surfacing-knowledge-building-relationships-indigenous-communities-arl-and-canadian-libraries/indigiwiki-goes-to-the-junos-blog-post/.
Allison-Cassin, S. (2017). Research libraries and Wikimedia: A shared commitment to diversity, open knowledge, and community participation. Wikimedia Foundation Blog. Retrieved from
Lih, A., Allison-Cassin, S., Wyatt, L., Stephenson-Goodknight, R., & Fernandez, R. (2017). Wikipedia Weekly Podcast: WikidataCon 2017.

Coverage of YUL initiatives

Aschaiek, Sharon.“Advancing Academia with Wikipedia” University Affairs. Feb 26 2019.
Allison-Cassin, Stacy and Mark Puente. “York, Ryerson Universities Host Summit on Decolonizing Description in Libraries, Archives”. ARL Blog. July, 24, 2018.
“UPEI Edit-a-Thon Set to Help Boost Online Profile of Canadian Musicians" CBC/Radio Canada, 24 Oct. 2017.