Digital Transformation
Enhance Discoverability
& Grow Your Audiences
Digital Transformation Services
We work with you to build technology roadmaps to implement cutting-edge technologies and digital practices to enhance accessibility, engagement, and the overall visitor experience.
Technology Roadmap
We are able to review modern technology solutions and recommend the best fit for your organization, including:
- content management systems / website
- online collections
- ticketing systems
Online Programming
We help design and deliver online programming to help you stay connected and expand audiences and visitors.
- educational programming
- virtual expert talks
- virtual tours
Increasing Discoverability
We help GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) organizations and artists find new audiences online through:
- online demonstration workshops
- discoverability toolkits
- wikimedia peer editing
Digital Transformation Client Work
Oakville Arts Council
Through our work examining technology platforms used by arts and culture organizations, we were able to recommend options to improve grant allocations and membership tracking.
Backus-Page House Museum
We helped the Backus/Page House museum design online educational programs, to offer additional revenue opportunites to the organization.
Wikimedia Foundation
Victoria has worked for several years with visual artists, art galleries and museums to create a series of workshops and tools to help GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) increase their audiences and links to communities through Wikidata editing sessions and uploads to Wikicommons.
Digital Transformation Program – Wiki Wednesdays – 2022 to 2024
Wiki Wednesdays
Wiki-Wednesdays were free online monthly learning sessions designed to help GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) professionals understand how art galleries and museums can use linked open data (LOD) to raise awareness of their organizations and artists.
Funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, and the Canada Council for the Arts these sessions were brought to you by Victoria Stasiuk and Associates and Navino Evans from Histropedia.
Events – Series 2
| SEPTEMBER 6 | Kickoff Launch Session |
| OCTOBER 4 | Wiki-Wednesdays GLAM: SEO & Wikidata with Inga Petri, Strategic Moves |
| NOVEMBER 1 | South Asian Artists in Canada: Exploring Cultural Works & Digital Empowerment with Indu Adiyat and Dr. Beenish Tahir |
| DECEMBER 6 | Jason Evans – How would a Wikimedian in Residence help your cultural organization? |
| JANUARY 10 |
Online Collections – Increasing Education & Outreach through Wikidata & the WikiCommons: Partnered Session with BC Museums Association Members |
| FEBRUARY 7 | Raising the Profile & Discoverability of Metis artists with Tracey-Mae Chambers & George Simard |
Resources
Wiki Wednesday participants resources, including:
Case Studies
We will be adding to this session in our future work, once funding is secured.
- TBD
Visualizations
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Uninvited, Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment
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Sobey Art Award winners
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Emily Carr, mapping examples of online collections and Wiki Commons uploads
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Métis artists who were born in Canada/North America.
Digital Transformation Insights
Wiki Wednesday Series 2 – Digital Literacy for GLAM
This post provides resources, so you can view our data visualizations or knowledge graphs and also follow along with the content by reviewing our Youtube videos.
Wiki-Wednesdays: Wikimedian in Residence and Your Cultural Organization
About the Speaker Jason Evans is a former Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales, now the National Wikimedian and Open Data Manager. Jason specializes in Wikipedia community outreach, Open Access policy and Linked Open Data with a special interest in...
Digital Readiness & Innovation In Museums
Is size of the museum the crucial element or is there another secret sauce in terms of talent, strategy, process or technology tools? In the executive summary of this survey report, Chris Barr, director for arts and technology innovation at Knight...