Grants:Project/Susannaanas/GLAMpipe/Midpoint

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Welcome to this project's midpoint report! This report shares progress and learning from the grantee's first 3 months.

Summary

In a few short sentences or bullet points, give the main highlights of what happened with your project so far.

Ari created the online version. He has worked on pilot uploads, the University of São Paulo Museum of Veterinary Anatomy upload project and the UNESCO image import component.
Kimmo presented GLAMpipe in the Wikimedia hackathon. He created a new Wikimedia Commons classification script for Finnish tags using the Finto tags and Wikidata.
Susanna worked on user interfaces for the new features.

Methods and activities

How have you setup your project, and what work has been completed so far?

Describe how you've setup your experiment or pilot, sharing your key focuses so far and including links to any background research or past learning that has guided your decisions. List and describe the activities you've undertaken as part of your project to this point.

We work remotely and have weekly quick online meetings to coordinate.
Once in a while we have a f2f working session.
We prepare to engage with more users as the software is getting more stable.

Midpoint outcomes

What are the results of your project or any experiments you’ve worked on so far?

Please discuss anything you have created or changed (organized, built, grown, etc) as a result of your project to date.

Online version
Documentation
University of São Paulo Museum of Veterinary Anatomy upload project
Finto categorizer - an app to turn keywords into Commons categories using concepts from the Finnish thesaurus and ontology service Finto and Wikidata.
User interfaces

Finances

Please take some time to update the table in your project finances page. Check that you’ve listed all approved and actual expenditures as instructed. If there are differences between the planned and actual use of funds, please use the column provided there to explain them.

Then, answer the following question here: Have you spent your funds according to plan so far? Please briefly describe any major changes to budget or expenditures that you anticipate for the second half of your project.

All funds are personal grants except the travel funds. There were no travel expenses to Wikimedia hackathon due to another scholarship.

Learning

The best thing about trying something new is that you learn from it. We want to follow in your footsteps and learn along with you, and we want to know that you are taking enough risks to learn something really interesting! Please use the below sections to describe what is working and what you plan to change for the second half of your project.

What are the challenges

What challenges or obstacles have you encountered? What will you do differently going forward? Please list these as short bullet points.

Busy schedules have caused the project to be delayed.
Regular short online meetings give structure even if there was not enough time for development.

What is working well

What have you found works best so far? To help spread successful strategies so that they can be of use to others in the movement, rather than writing lots of text here, we'd like you to share your finding in the form of a link to a learning pattern.

Your learning pattern link goes here
About remote work arrangements – We will write more about this when we have completed the project.

Next steps and opportunities

What are the next steps and opportunities you’ll be focusing on for the second half of your project? Please list these as short bullet points. If you're considering applying for a 6-month renewal of this grant at the end of your project, please also mention this here.

Workshop in Wikimania
Working with test users and real use cases

Grantee reflection

We’d love to hear any thoughts you have on how the experience of being an grantee has been so far. What is one thing that surprised you, or that you particularly enjoyed from the past 3 months?