The GLAM-Wiki Dashboard is an advanced tool developed by Wikimedia Israel, with the support of Wikimedia Sweden, based on open-source infrastructure from Wikimedia Switzerland. It allows cultural, knowledge, and content institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums – GLAM) to track the visibility and usage of their media files after they’ve been uploaded to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
Why is this important?
Cultural institutions hold irreplaceable treasures of knowledge and culture. When these institutions share free materials with the public via Wikimedia Commons, they enable global access to their cultural heritage. GLAM-Wiki Dashboard is designed to help them understand the impact of this knowledge sharing—which files receive the most exposure? In which articles and projects are they used? How many views do they get?
What does the dashboard offer?
The dashboard presents visual information through various graphs and time filters, allowing each institution to:
- Track the number of views for their media files
- Understand where their content appears in Wikimedia projects
- Identify trends in content and popular categories
- Receive data to help shape strategies for making information accessible
Institutions already using the dashboard
As of today, over 140 cultural institutions worldwide are using this tool, including:
- The National Academy of History of Argentina
- The Cleveland Museum of Art (USA)
- The National Archives of Brazil
- The National Museum of Sweden
- The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit
- The Gnazim Archive
- The Bible Lands Museum
- Yad Ben Zvi
- The National Library of Israel, and many more.
Want to try it yourself?
Try the dashboard here:
https://glamwikidashboard.wmcloud.org/
Contributing to free knowledge and making cultural treasures accessible to the public
We hope that using the dashboard will increase awareness of the importance of making cultural treasures accessible online, and encourage more institutions to share content with the public, free of charge, as part of the global effort to expand and make knowledge accessible to everyone in the world.
