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GLAM-WIKI Schedule Announced

In three weeks the UK cultural sector and Wikimedia community will gather at the British Museum to discuss how we can better collaborate. The full schedule is now online.

Blogger and author Cory Doctorow will open the conference on Friday November 26th with a presentation provocatively entitled:

"Being a beloved institution will get you through times of no money
better than money will get you through times of being an irrelevant one."

As announced, Kenneth Crews from Columbia University and Sue Gardner from the Wikimedia Foundation will also be keynoting this event.

We believe that with Wikipedia's global reach and non-profit, volunteer-driven, educational purpose we can collaborate very effectively with museums, archives and other cultural sector organisations. Virtually every UK cultural organisation has a volunteer program, yet very few have an e-volunteer program. Wikipedia could be that e-volunteer program for the cultural sector!

NPG

One session, the very existence of which might surprise many people, is being given by Tom Morgan, Head of Rights and Reproductions at the National Portrait Gallery. Many will recall the conflicts that erupted between our two organisations last year and this is why Mr. Morgan's presentation, immediately after Sue Gardner's keynote, is entitled:

"Wikipedia and the National Portrait Gallery - A bad first date?
A perspective on the developing relationship between Wikipedia and cultural heritage organisations"

This will be the first time that the NPG has been able to express its perspective (and what it has learned since) on the debate to an audience of interested Wikimedians. Hard questions will be asked in both directions but this is an important forum to be able discuss our differences with civility.

Sessions

Over the two days of the event we will have presentations by representatives of GLAM institutions from five European countries about how they are working with Wikipedia. Examples of projects being discussed include (but not limited to):

• The Federal Archive project - Germany.
• The Tropenmuseum project - Netherlands.
• The Regional Archive project - Sweden.
• The National Library project - France
• and of course the British Museum project - UK

Technical talks include issues of: reporting metrics; mass-multimedia collaboration; mobile and API usage; practical editing guides; as well as general tours of the Wikimedia projects.

Evening public lecture

On the evening of Friday 26th there will be a lecture given by Kenneth Crews, Director of the Copyright Advisory office of Columbia University and author of the groundbreaking research Control of Art Museum Images: The reach and limits of copyright and licensing' on the topic of:

"The Free-conomy and the cultural sector"

Following this presentation will be a discussion with panelists including: director of DACS Gilane Tawadros; Director of Europeana Jill Cousins; Head of Digital at the BFI Paula Le Dieu; Presenter of BBC's Digital Planet Bill Thompson.

Registration

Full Registration (all tickets include attendance to the Friday evening public lecture "the free-conomy and the cultural sector):

• professional tickets, £40;
• Wikimedians, students or volunteers, £20.

Partial Registration:

• attendees of the MCG conference can register for Day Two of GLAM-WIKI at the discount price of £20;
• For the Friday evening event only; at the door for £20.

Payment accepted by Paypal via the registration website, or cash at the registration desk.

For more information this conference and to see the full schedule visit http://glamwiki.org and to register click here: