GLAM-WIKI 2013/Schedule

Please note that exact timings of sessions may be subject to change during March while we confirm all speakers; however, we do not anticipate any major changes

Friday
	Bronte Room	Chaucer Room	Eliot Room
09.30 - 10.30	Registration and coffee
10.30 - 11.00	Welcome (Auditorium)
11.00 - 12.00	Keynote: Michael Edson - "Scope, Scale, and Speed" (Auditorium)
12.00 - 13.00	Partnership Reports: UK	Open content: where are we today?	Working with digital content
13.00 - 13.45	Lunch
13.45 - 15.00	Lizzy Jongma - "The Rijksmuseum is Open" (Auditorium)
	Geer Oskam - "Europeana and Wikimedia" (Auditorium)
15.00 - 15.45	Partnership Reports: Outside the UK	Engaging institutional staff	Europeana GLAM-Wiki Toolset
15.45 - 16.15	Coffee
16.15 - 17.00	Partnership Reports: Science	What are the risks?	New Tools
17.00 - 17.30	Wrap up & summary (Auditorium)

Saturday
	Bronte Room	Chaucer Room	Eliot Room
09.30 - 10.15	Registration and coffee
10.15 - 11.00	Welcome & introduction to workshops (Auditorium)
	Mia Ridge - "A Short History of Open Cultural Data" (Auditorium)
11.00 - 12.00	Wikimedia for GLAMS - Workshop I (Wikipedia)	Panel: Starting a project: how do we begin?	Workshop: TBC
12.00 - 13.00	Wikimedia for GLAMS - Workshop II (Commons)	Panel: Striking the balance?	Wikidata: background and discussion
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	Wikimedia for GLAMS - Workshop III (Licensing)	Panel: Engaging with Maps	GLAM-Metrics: Measuring the Impact of Openness
15.00 - 15.30	Coffee
15.30 - 16.30		Wikimedia for GLAMS - Workshop IV (Communities)	Wikimedia UK EGM 2013	GLAM-Wiki Europeana Toolset Workshop
16.30 – 17.00	Wrap up & summary (Auditorium)

Sunday
	Bronte Room	Chaucer Room	Eliot Room
11.30 - 16.30	THATcamp Unconference & Hackathon

Sessions

Friday

Welcome

Welcome from Caroline Brazier, Director of Scholarship and Collections at the British Library, and from Kat Walsh, Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation

Keynote - "Scope, Scale, and Speed"

Keynote speech given by Michael Edson, Director of Web & New Media Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution.

Michael will be doing a lot of work focusing on scale this year – how to encourage GLAMs to deliver more impact in society for the resources, attention, mind share, real estate, reputation and trust they consume. His presentation will encourage GLAM leaders and practitioners to focus on helping Wikipedians succeed, giving specific examples of how success for Wikimedians is success for everyone.

Partnership Reports: UK

Reports on partnerships from around the UK, including the British Library, the National Archives, and institutions in Wales.

Partnerships in the UK - an overview

John Byrne

An overview of cultural partnerships in the UK over the past two years.

GLAM-Wiki in Wales

Robin Owain

News and reports from the cultural sector in Wales

Picturing Canada

Digitising the Canadian Copyright Collection

Andrew Gray and Philip Hatfield (British Library)

An announcement of the latest Wikimedia UK-British Library partnership; a project to digitise and release the Canadian legal deposit photograph collection, 1895-1925.

This Means War

Wikipedia and the National Archives

Jo Pugh

Central government meets the open content revolution. Have the results been pretty? What have we achieved so far and what should be the aims for the future?

Open content: where are we today?

Two talks on the current state of open content and open data in the cultural sector

Digital Benchmarks for Museums & Arts Organisations

Nick Poole (Collections Trust)

A report on initial findings from the Digital Benchmarks program, a self-assessment tool for museums, galleries etc which posits the provision of linked open data and working in partnership with open communities as the ideal end-result of a museum’s digital evolution.

To what extent are GLAMs ready for Open Data and Crowdsourcing?

Beat Estermann

Report of a pilot survey from Switzerland, asking cultural institutions about the extent to which they are ready to adopt an open data policy and to engage in crowdsourcing approaches, including co-operations with the Wikipedia/Wikimedia community. Institutions provided information about the perceived risks and opportunities of such approaches, their attitudes towards "free" licensing, the extent of material already made available on the Internet, and previous experiences with volunteer work.

Working with digital content

Three short talks on aspects of dealing with open digital content and licensing.

Creative Commons 4.0

Kat Walsh (Creative Commons)

A short introduction to the new Creative Commons 4.0 licenses, and their development, from the perspective of cultural institutions.

Why Every Pixel Matters

Christoph Braun

A short discussion of current approaches for and against high resolution content from different GLAM institutions on Wikimedia Commons; and an examination of the benefits of high resolution content for improving metadata through error reports, the potential for high quality digital restorations and the effects on outreach through re-use.

Curating the Digital Commons

Sam Leon (Open Knowledge Foundation)

In the past year the Open GLAM initiative, coordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation, has been building communities, tools and resources for working with open cultural data and helping more cultural institutions to actively embrace openness. By far and away most successful Open GLAM project has been the Public Domain Review, an online journal for curated collections of curiosities from the digital public domain. In collaboration with GLAMWiki want to investigate how to encourage greater participation in this process of curating the digital commons, teaching people how to use existing portals into the public domain as means to enrich it and establish the infrastructure and standards that will allow a curatorial layer to flourish.

Lunchtime talk: The Rijksmuseum is Open

Talk by Lizzy Jongma, data manager at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Ten years ago the Rijksmuseum had to close its doors to the public for extensive renovation of its monumental building. The renovation took much longer than expected and only a small selection of Art from the Dutch Golden Age has been on display. An entire generation grew up without direct access to most of the Dutch national treasures.

To show and share its art and knowledge the Rijksmuseum digitizes its collections in high resolution and shares its images and metadata as freely as possible. 250.000 object descriptions and 125.000 images (fully color managed, 300 dpi) are on display and downloadable at the website of the Rijksmuseum. Users of the Rijksmuseum can download, collect and (re-)use these images freely in Rijksstudio. And images and metadata are available for app builders with the Rijksmuseum API. The Rijksmuseum also shares its collections with Wikimedia Nederland, Europeana, Kennisnet (national education network) and specialized websites.

Lizzy Jongma will present the Rijksmuseum digital strategies and results of opening and sharing the collections in high res on a large scale. One day before the Rijksmuseum is reopened!

Lunchtime talk: Europeana and Wikimedia

Talk by Geer Oskam, of Europeana.

A brief introduction to Europeana and what Europeana is working with, followed by an overview of Europeana's support and cooperation with the Wikimedia movement to date, from sponsoring Wiki Loves Monuments to the current cooperation between Europeana and both Wikimedia Sweden (with Europeana Awareness) and Wikimedia Netherlands (with batch uploads).

Partnership Reports: Outside the UK

Reports from projects in the United States and the Netherlands.

Open culture in the US

Sarah Stierch (Open Knowledge Foundation)

Sarah Stierch, formerly a Community Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedian in Residence at both the Smithsonian and the Archives of American Art, reports on the past two years of cultural partnerships and open culture within the United States.

Working together from shared ideals

Wikimedia Nederlands and the Teylers Museum

Geert-Jan Janse (Teylers) & Sandra Fauconnier (Wikimedia NL)

The Dutch chapter of Wikimedia and Teyler Museum organised a writing challenge from January till June 2012 to expand the coverage on various topics related to Teylers Museum and its rich collections. Curators and Wikipedians have successfully worked together, resulting in over 300 new articles in more then 13 languages, including Esperanto,Catalan and Volapük. Why did this project take place, how was it organised, what were our experiences, what are the lessons learned and how do we hope to continue our fruitful collaboration?

Engaging institutional staff

A look at ways to engage professional staff in working with Wikipedia, and disseminating those skills to others.

Professional GLAM staffers on Wikipedia

Axel Petterson (Wikimedia Sweden)

Wikimedia Sweden has taught some 50 professional GLAM staffers, curators and experts, from most of the national museums of Sweden, how to edit, upload images and interact with the community. This presentation talks about their impression is on working on Wikipedia and with Wikipedians as professional editors. It also looks at the inertia which will ensure the work will continue even though the initial project has ended.

Collaborating with a whole network of Public Libraries

Carme Fenoll (Catalonia Libraries Network)

The Cultural Department of the Government of Catalonia and Amical, the Catalan Wikipedia organisation, have worked to promote Wikipedia among the Network of Catalan Public Libraries. 150 professional public librarians have already received Wiki training, in order to subsequently invite library users to join wiki projects.

Europeana GLAM-Wiki Toolset

A shared presentation by Dan Entous (Europeana), Valentine Charles (Europeana) and Maarten Zeinstra (Kennisland).

A report on the state of development of the GLAMwiki Mediawiki-extension, the mapping of standard GLAM metadata standards to Wikimedia Commons templates and a preview of the final report on GLAM-requirements for statistics from the Wikimedia projects. The presentation will comprise a demo of the GLAMwiki tool extension, the working metadata mappings and a small number of sample uploads. A takeway from the presentation will be how you as a Wikipedian or a GLAM-professional can contribute to the project.

Partnership Reports: Science

Reports from scientifically-oriented collaborations.

Science GLAM

Daniel Mietchen

Science-related activities have so far taken a back seat within the GLAM:Wiki framework, but initial contacts with a number of science and natural history museums, botanical gardens, zoos, herbaria and similar institutions are encouraging. Building on a similar talk at Wikimania 2012, this session is devoted to reporting on what has happened so far as much as to seeding a strategy for things to come.

Project Phœbus

Jean-Frédéric Berthelot

The Muséum de Toulouse is the Natural History Museum of the city of Toulouse, whose collections include more than 2.5 millions objects. In 2010, as part of a partnership between the City and Wikimédia France, was started a project where Wikimedians have access to the backstages to take scientific pictures of the collections − Project Phœbus. Two years later, around 1,700 high-quality photographs (from the collections of botany, entomology, ichthyology, mineralogy, ornithology, prehistory and paleontology) have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, and largely reused throughout Wikimedia projects.

The Phœbus project involves Wikimedians − amateurs − in a process of scientific popularisation and museum curation, through the development of Wikimedia Commons. This talk will highlight how opening collections online means reaching the other side of the world, and discuss how free licenses can be a driving force of knowledge transmission and scientific dissemination.

What are the risks?

A talk and discussion led by Ashley Van Haeften giving key, behind the scenes, practical insights in to how and why institutions such as archives, libraries and museums should partner with Wikimedia Commons to achieve their public access mission; a look at what the risks of such a collaboration are, and how they can be overcome or successfully mitigated.

New tools

Three short talks outlining new technologies being used by Wikimedia to help increased engagement both with cultural institutions and with the general public.

An Introduction to Wikidata

Katie Filbert

Wikidata is Wikimedia's newest project, a structured database drawing information from Wikipedia articles to produce a collaborative, fully public-domain, linked data resource. This talk will give an outline of the project, its current status and its goals, and will be followed by a more detailed session on Saturday.

QR Codes in Wikimedia

Andy Mabbett

Wikimedia, and the "QRpedia" project, has been working to provide a system where simple QR codes can provide a multilingual gateway to rich information. This talk will outline the QRpedia project, recent developments, and how it can be used by cultural institutions.

Visual Editor

James Forrester

A preview of the (long-awaited) next generation of Wikipedia editing, currently being tested before a widespread release in 2013.

Saturday

Welcome

A short welcome and introduction, including an outline of the day's different workshops

A Brief History of Open Cultural Data

Mia Ridge presents "A Brief History of Open Cultural Data".

Wikimedia for GLAMS - Workshop I (Wikipedia)

An introductory workshop for cultural-sector professionals, looking at working with Wikipedia.

Panel: Starting a project: how do we begin?

A panel discussion covering the thorny question of how to first begin a project - who do you talk to? What do you ask for? The discussion will look at both the institutional and the volunteer perspectives, and try to find common ground on best approaches.

TBC

Workshop yet to be confirmed

Wikimedia for GLAMS - Workshop II (Commons)

An introductory workshop for cultural-sector professionals, looking at working with Wikimedia Commons, a large-scale free image repository.

Panel: Striking the balance?

A panel led by Nick Poole discussing how an organisation strikes the balance between the moral imperative to open up collections, against the commercial drive to generate revenue.

Wikidata: background and discussion

An introduction to Wikidata led by Katie Filbert, one of the development team, outlining how it will develop and what it offers in terms of reusable data for the cultural sector.

Wikimedia for GLAMS - Workshop III (Licensing)

An introductory workshop for cultural-sector professionals, looking at the issues of copyright licensing and open content.

Panel: Engaging with Maps

A panel discussion on open content and collaboration in the cultural sector around maps and mapping. With short project presentations from:

Kimberley Kowal (British Library) - Crowdsourced georeferencing in the British Library

The British Library's Georeferencer project has been crowdsourcing location data to make a selection of its vast collections of maps fully searchable and viewable online. The results and level of activity have been remarkable - the third batch of 800 maps was completed by volunteers in three days.

Susanna Ånäs (Wikimedia Finland) - Georeferencing and Wikimedia

Wikimedia Finland has teamed up with a group of Finnish memory institutions for releasing historical maps to Wikimedia Commons. But there is a plan for more. First we are putting up an experimental georeferencing environment inside Wikimedia, and organizing georeferencing events. We are using and developing openly licensed tools. Second, we are looking into the realization of an environment for utilizing historical maps in Wikimedia.

Barbara Fischer (Wikimedia Deutschland) - Mapping archaeological data through Wikipedia

Wikimedia Deutschland and the German Archeological Institute have been developing tools to help re-use archaeological data, matching map visualisations to Wikipedia articles. (example)

GLAM-Metrics: Measuring the Impact of Openness

Details to follow

Wikimedia for GLAMS - Workshop IV (Communities)

An introductory workshop for cultural-sector professionals, looking at how best to work with online volunteer communities.

GLAM-Wiki Europeana Toolset Workshop

In this workshop you'll get the chance to try out the GLAMwiki mapping and upload tool yourself. The focus will be on the mapping of GLAM-metadata to the different templates used on Wikimedia Commons. If you're from a GLAM please bring along some sample metadata to the workshop! There would be two requirements for your metadata to work: 1. It's in a flat XML-format with no parent/child relations or attributes other than lang= ,and 2. In the XML there's a field with a link to a media file in the accepted formats on Wikimedia Commons.

Since we're just practicing it would be better if you bring a small sample of a couple of dozen records rather than an XML-file of your entire 100 000 records or so! If you don't have any metadata to bring we'll have realistic samples for you to work with anyway.

Note that we will be working with our testing tool on Wikimedia Labs so content won't be upload to Wikimedia Commons for real, just in a realistic manner. We're hoping you'll join us and by doing so contribute to us developing as user-friendly and stable mapping and upload tool as possible.

Sunday

Sunday is organised by THATCamp as a free unconference and hackathon, where the agenda and session topics are determined by attendees on the day. THATCamp London 2013 will be an unconference exploring the humanities and technology. We’re hoping to see lots of exciting creations and thoughts around free-licensing, open access and the interface between humanities and technology.