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Cultural partnerships
Content partnerships — Digital image restorations — Joint events

Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums & Wikimedia: Finding the common ground
at the British Museum, Friday 26 - Saturday 27 November 2010
Information on the Paris event the following week can be found here.
Wikimedia UK: glamwikimedia.org.uk, +44 (0)7988 013 646 @wikimediauk
Convened by Liam Wyatt: liam.wyattwikimedia.org.uk, +61 434 056 914, @wittylama
Hashtag: #GLAMWIKI

Purpose

Representatives from the UK and European cultural sector will come together with representatives from the Wikimedia community for a two-way dialogue to determine how to use the two communities' strengths to a mutual advantage.

why and how cultural institutions could work with Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia; and
what Wikimedia needs to do to make collaboration easier and more effective.

This event is relevant to representatives of the licensing, web, sales, and education departments in cultural instutions.

Main Events

Friday 26 - Policy

Keynote presentation by Cory Doctorow - science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger
Day one will focus on the policy issues that affect collaboration between the cultural sector and Wikimedia:

Legal (e.g. copyright)
Business models

Friday Evening - "The free-conomy & the cultural sector"
A Wikimedia UK - Museum Computer Group joint event
Keynote presentation followed by Q&A panel - BP Theatre, British Museum 18:45.
Free for attendees of GLAM-WIKI & MCG conference. Others £20.
Keynote presentation by Dr. Kenneth Crews - Director, Copyright Advisory Office of Columbia University, New York
Panellists - Paula Le Dieu, BFI; Gilane Tawadros, DACS; other TBA

Saturday 27 - Practice

Keynote presentation by Sue Gardner - executive director, Wikimedia Foundation
Day two will focus on the practical aspects of collaboration:

GLAM editing (e.g Conflict of Interest, external linking)
Multimedia partnership projects (e.g. metadata and Wikimedia commons)
Small group editing workshops

Keynote speakers
Cory Doctorow
Sue Gardner
Dr. Kenneth Crews

Cost

Full Registration (all tickets include attendance to the Friday evening event):

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.

Other Presenters include...

Daniel Pett (Portable Antiquities Scheme - British Museum)
Jane Finnis (Director - Culture24)
Mathias Schindler (Wikimedia Deutschland)
Kajsa Hartig (Nordiska museet, Sweden)

Matthew Cock (Head of Web - British Museum)
Mia Ridge (London Science Museum)
Hampton Catlin (Wikipedia Mobile Developer)
David Harris (GlobalLives.org)
And many more to come...

Any Questions?

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