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*Friday 14 September 2012
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*Saturday 15 September 2012
*Sunday 16 September 2012
**Un-conference and social/cultural events.


=== Venue details ===
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Cultural partnerships

Content partnershipsDigital image restorationsJoint events

Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums & Wikimedia
at the British Library, Friday 14 - Saturday 15 September 2012
Cost: TBA
Wikimedia UK: glamatwikimedia.org.uk, +44 (0)20 7065 0990 @wikimediauk
Convened by Fæ: faeatwikimedia.org.uk, @faenwp
WMUK will be using staff resources to organise the logistics for the event.
Hashtag: #GLAMWIKI | Lanyrd

Main Events

The British Library's main courtyard entrance

We have two days of talks planned. Possible speakers include:

  • Cory Doctorow, Jimmy Wales (Friday preferable), Joscelyn Upendran, Jill Cousins, Andrew Lih, en:Brian Sewell...? Add other ideas in here...

Agenda

The full scope is to be agreed. This is a global GLAM conference, the UK chapter is hosting in partnership with the British Library with the support of other chapters and the WMF in terms of volunteer support and scholarships to attend. The intention is to attract Wikimedians to share their GLAM related experience and professionals to address the GLAM community. Presentations may be available as open publications or be the basis of published papers after the event.

Draft schedule

see GLAM-WIKI 2012/Schedule
Day 0 (Thursday) - Social event
  • 15:00 Tour of X
  • 19:30 Networking dinner
Day 1 (Friday) - geared towards GLAM institutions representatives

Day focused on reaching out to the widest GLAM community and professionals.

  • 9:30 Registration
  • 10:00 Welcome - including summary of sessions and theme of the day - Fae?
  • 10:30 Key note speech at the auditorium
  • 11:00 morning coffee break
  • 11:30-13:00 breakout sessions/ panel discussion
  • 13:00-14:00 lunch
  • 14:00-15:00 session 1
  • 15:00-15:30 afternoon coffee
  • 15:30-16:30 session 2
  • 16:30-17:00 wrap up, summary of the day

There are 3 breakout rooms available - respective capacities 80, 60 and 30 theatre; or 35, 30, 15 cabaret

Day 2 (Saturday)

Day focused on the GLAMwiki experience and how it gets done.

  • 9:30 registration
  • 10:00 Welcome - including summary of sessions and theme of the day - Fae?
  • 10:30 Key note speech at the auditorium for all
  • 11:00 morning coffee break
  • 11:30-13:00 workshops related to British Library, parallel sessions
  • 13:00-14:00 lunch
  • 14:00-15:00 parallel sessions
  • 15:00-15:30 afternoon coffee, summary of sessions
  • 15:30-16:30 parallel sessions 2
  • 16:30-17:00 wrap up, conclusions
Day 3 (Sunday)

Unconference style

There are 3 breakout rooms available - respective capacities 80, 60 and 30 theatre; or 35, 30, 15 cabaret



Schedule

Friday
  Bronte Room Chaucer Room Eliot Room
09.30 - 10.30 Registration and coffee
10.30 - 11.00 Welcome
(Auditorium)
11.00 - 12.00 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? Open session
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
16.30 - London's 68th Meetup. Note the meet up starts at 1pm but we can join in the afternoon.

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

"Scope, Scale, and Speed"

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.

THE AGE OF SCALE slides on slideshare.net
Jack the Museum poem on commons.wikimedia.org
Jack the Museum poem on youtube.com
Whole talk on youtube.com

Partnership Reports: UK

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

New partnerships - an overview (15m)
John Byrne
An overview of developments in cultural partnerships in the UK (and elsewhere) over the past two years.
For fuller details & listings than the presentation will give see [1]
GLAM-Wiki in Wales (15m)
Robin Owain
News and reports from the cultural sector in Wales.
Picturing Canada - Digitising the Canadian Copyright Collection (15m)
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 (15m)
Jo Pugh (National Archives)
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 (30m)
Video of Nick Poole's presentation
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? (30m)
Video of Beat Estermann's presentation
Beat Estermann (Bern University of Applied Sciences)
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.

Slides of the presentation

Working with digital content

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

Creative Commons 4.0 (20m)
Kat Walsh (Creative Commons)
A short introduction to the new Creative Commons 4.0 licenses, and their development, from the perspective of cultural institutions.
A strategic argument for high resolution content. Why every pixel matters. (20m)
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 (20m)
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.

Curating the Cultural Commons on slideshare.net

Lunchtime talk: The Rijksmuseum is Open

Video of Lizzy Jongma's presentation
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

Geer Oskam (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 (20m)
Video of Sarah Stierch's presentation.
Sarah Stierch (Wikipedian in Residence, World Digital Library;Wikimedia 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.

What's up in the US on Wikimedia Commons

Working together from shared ideals - Wikimedia Nederlands and the Teylers Museum (20m)
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?
Presentation on Wikimedia Commons

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 (20m)
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 what 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.
Slides on slideshare.
Collaborating with a whole network of Public Libraries (20m)
Carme Fenoll (Catalonia Libraries Network) & Àlex Hinojo (Amical Viquipèdia)
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.
Slides on slideshare

Europeana GLAM-Wiki Toolset

Dan Entous (Europeana) and Maarten Zeinstra (Kennisland). (45m)
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.

Slide on SlideShare

Partnership Reports: Science

Reports from scientifically-oriented collaborations.

Science GLAM (20m)
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 (20m)
Slides on Wikimedia Commons
Jean-Frédéric Berthelot
The Muséum de Toulouse is the Natural History Museum of the city of Toulouse, whose collections include more than 2.5 million 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 2,000 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 top six risks of such a collaboration are, and how they might 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 (15m)
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. (slides)
QRpedia (15m)
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 (15m)
James Forrester
A preview of the (long-awaited) next generation of Wikipedia editing, currently being tested before a widespread release in mid-2013!

Saturday

All Saturday workshops and panels are one hour long

Welcome

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

A Brief History of Open Cultural Data

File:Mia Ridge at GLAM-Wiki 2013.webm
Video of Mia Ridge's presentation

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

Talk notes

Wikimedia for GLAMS - Workshop I (Wikipedia)

Led by Andy Mabbett and John Cummings

An introductory workshop for cultural-sector professionals, looking at working with Wikipedia. You will get an introduction to how Wikipedia works and how it's developed over time, and ways in which you can work and engage with it.

Links:

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? What should you focus on? A panel of experienced volunteers will discuss how they have handled the first steps in partnerships, consider what the best approaches are - and talk about what doesn't work!

Panelists:

  • Shani Evenstein (Wikimedia Israel)
  • Àlex Hinojo (Amical)
  • Robin Owain (Wici Cymru)
  • Jo Pugh (The National Archives)

Open Session

Open space for other discussions
We've kept a room free on Saturday morning for open discussion, for people to meet and talk about possible projects, to build on yesterday's talks and plan ahead for Sunday.

Wikimedia for GLAMS - Workshop II (Commons)

Workshop by Ashley Van Haeften and Christoph Braun.

An introductory workshop for cultural-sector professionals, looking at working with Wikimedia Commons, a large-scale free image repository. The session will look at how Commons works, how it aggregates and manages materials, and ways to work with the Commons community.

Panel: Striking the balance?

A panel discussing how an organisation strikes the balance between the moral imperative to open up collections, against the commercial drive to generate revenue. How open should an institution be? How open can they afford to be?

Panelists:

  • Georgia Angelaki (National Documentation Center, Greece)
  • Mike Peel (Wikimedia UK)
  • Joris Pekel (Open Knowledge Foundation)
  • Nick Poole (Collections Trust)

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. (slides)

Wikimedia for GLAMS - Workshop III (Licensing)

Workshop by Sandra Fauconnier, Sebastiaan ter Burg and Joris Pekel

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

Panel: Engaging with Maps

Short presentations from three projects working on open content, maps and mapping in the cultural sector, followed by a panel discussion.

With 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. The project page and the slides
  • 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) Please read our monthly newsletter for more information.

GLAM-Metrics: Measuring the Impact of Openness

Led by Maarten Brinkerink
Many (semi-)governmental organizations are openly publishing parts of their data and the topic is on the European Digital Agenda. However, the majority of cultural institutions have yet to pick up this new form of transparency and public access. Also, although measuring online success is gaining ground in the GLAM sector, specific tools for measuring the effects of opening up data are far and few between.
In the Netherlands Open Culture Data helped make 35 datasets available under open licenses, altogether containing hundreds of thousands of records. As a result the initiative curated a network of tech-savvy cultural professionals that has made Open Culture Data into a mature distribution channel for cultural institutions.
Now that many cultural datasets can be reused, a need arises to measure the effects of opening up. Open Culture Data is therefore developing a measurement model to gather evidence about the effects of open distribution. This workshop aims to provide attendees insight in the benefits and measurable results of opening up their data, with the aim of further refining the approach collaboratively.

Wikimedia for GLAMS - Workshop IV (Communities)

Slides on Wikimedia Commons
Led by Andrew Gray and Sarah Stierch

An introductory workshop for cultural-sector professionals, looking at how best to work with online volunteer communities. What works? What doesn't? How do online volunteers differ from traditional volunteer groups?

Finding the community on commons.wikimedia.org

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 are two requirements for your metadata to work:

  1. The XML must be in a "flat-format" - no parent/child relations or attributes other than lang="lc", where lc is a two-letter ISO 639-1 code
  2. The XML must contain an element that contains a valid url link to a media file; see accepted media formats on Wikimedia Commons.
    Note: The url to the media file should not redirect to another url.

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. A two-record example is at GLAM-WIKI 2013/Europeana.

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.

Please note that we recommend you bring a laptop if you intend to attend this workshop

Sunday

Until 16:30 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.

Please note that we recommend you bring a laptop if you intend to attend this event


After 16:30 everyone is welcome to join the other London Wikimedia regulars in our monthly meetup in a London pub with pub food and excellent British beers. All details at meta:Meetup/London/68

Venue details

We have the following rooms available for both Friday and Saturday:

  • Main auditorium - capacity 255 theatre style
  • Meeting room 2 - capacity 80 theatre style or 35 cabaret. Can be split into 2 separate rooms (30 theatre, 20 cabaret)
  • Meeting room 3 - capacity 30 theatre or 15 cabaret
  • Meeting room 4 - capacity 64 theatre or 30 cabaret
  • (Meeting room 1 is booked for the caterers)

For networking, exhibitions, lunch/coffee breaks we have the use of Foyer area, which fits about 240 people.

Planning schedule

  • June - ASAP start on visa issues, call for community participants
  • June 22 - coordination meeting; advertising goes out
  • July 23 - papers & proposals close
  • July 30 - schedule announced
  • August - prepare local aspects (volunteers etc)
  • August - end of registration
  • September 14 - conference

Accommodation

This list is incomplete - please add to it.

Early expressions of interest

Potential presentations

If you have an idea for a presentation or workshop you would like to include in the schedule, please add it here with your name. We will be announcing a process for taking proposals and selecting presentations shortly.

  1. How to turn a city into a living open knowledge experience. [Nominating John Cummings and Roger Bamkin] -- (talk) 08:23, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
  2. Revelations from the British Library Wikipedian in Residence project. [TBA] -- (talk) 08:23, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
  3. Planet GLAM; moving beyond Wikimedia Chapters and local GLAM projects. -- (talk) 08:23, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
  4. Beyond pilot projects: Working Wikimedia into the workflow of an organization. --Lori Phillips (talk)
  5. Can the GLAM movement help close the gender gap? How GLAMs have the opportunity to contribute beyond just their content, but for the sake of open knowledge gender equality, as well. SarahStierch (talk) 14:22, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
  6. Science GLAM --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 21:49, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
  7. GLAM Strategies and Experiences in the German Chapter --[[user:--Barbara Fischer (WMDE) (talk) 08:23, 7 May 2012 (UTC)]]
  8. Wikidata, what's in it for GLAM-Wiki? Aude (talk) 15:06, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
  9. Our project with Europeana. Multichill (talk) 19:08, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
  10. Overview of past and future GLAM projects in a certain country (state of GLAM in .....). Multichill (talk) 19:08, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
  11. Exploring partnerships: India and UK Noopur28
Given the initial success and explorations with museums in India, we are confident of exploring possibilities with institutions in the UK given India's long colonial past and the rich variety of art archives and objects that contribute to India's cultural history.

Volunteer helpers

We will need several helpers for reception, coordination, stewards, advice and emergency help for international travellers, reporting on the events, guides for groups wanting to socialize or play tourist around the most famous sights of London, and more technical help with Audio/Video webcasts, transcription and non-English support. Please add your name and the type of help you would like to offer.

  • Seddon (talk) 20:45, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
  • --Filceolaire (talk) 07:08, 6 April 2012 (UTC) General help on line before hand and at the event (assuming I can get holiday on the friday).
  • Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing) - happy to facilitate lightning talks and unconference.

Attendees

Registration is not yet open and the (modest) ticket price has yet to be agreed, however if you are happy to make an early commitment to attend, please add your name here. Please include where you are travelling from, particularly if outside the UK. Please note --

  • This is a partial list of attendees for GLAM-Wiki 2013.
  • Important - you must register online as well as signing up below . We will need an online registration to process your attendance.


Fill in as follows:

{{/reg | country code | name | webpage | affiliation | comments }}

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Attendees

Country Name Webpage Affiliation Comments
United Kingdom Andrew Gray British Library Organizer
Israel Deror Lin WLM Coordinator, WM-IL
Israel Shani Evenstein GLAM Projects Coordinator, WM-IL
United Kingdom John Byrne (Johnbod) Volunteer Organizer
Germany Christoph Braun GLAM cooperation at Hamburg Museum
United States Sarah Stierch US OpenGLAM Coordinator, Open Knowledge Foundation
United Kingdom Sam Leon OpenGLAM Project Manager & Community Coordinator, Open Knowledge Foundation
Netherlands Joris Pekel OpenGLAM Coordinator, Open Knowledge Foundation,
France Jean-Frédéric Wikimédia France
Icons-flag-bw.png Oarabile Mudongo Wikimedia_Botswana Volunteer at Proposed Wikimedia Botswana. Run pilot projects with GLAM Institutions collaboratively with schools in Botswana.
Netherlands Romaine WLM coordinator/organiser, GLAM projects volunteer at Wikimedia Netherlands, publisher of This Month in GLAM
Unknown country Àlex Hinojo Kippelboy.cat GLAMwiki projects Manager at Amical Viquipèdia
Germany Katie Filbert https://www.wikidata.org Wikimedia Deutschland Wikidata developer
Icons-flag-is.png Hrafn Malmquist NULI National and University Library of Iceland digital librarian
Norway Tom Klev Arts Council Norway
United Kingdom Rock drum
United Kingdom Philafrenzy Member of the human race
Finland Kimberli Mäkäräinen http://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geavaheaddji:Yupik Northern Sámi Wikipedia

If you are traveling from abroad, you may want to consider also attending Wikimedia UK's EduWiki Conference 2012 in Leicester on 5-6 September.

Any questions

Volunteers

Roles available

Friday Jo Stevens
Saturday Liz Perry
Sunday Jo Stevens
  • Registration desk
Friday Sophie Riches
9-10.30 rush on Registration, Jon Davies and Jonathan Cardy
Saturday Julia Duggleby
9-10.30 rush on Registration, Jonathan Cardy
Sunday Liz Perry (AM)
9-10.30 rush on Registration, Jonathan Cardy

Interested volunteers

  • Seddon (talk) 20:45, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
  • --Filceolaire (talk) 07:08, 6 April 2012 (UTC) General help on line before hand and at the event (assuming I can get holiday on the friday).
  • Mike Peel (talk) 18:48, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
  • Robin Owain Enter the Dragon...
  • (Jenna) - keen to support the organisation of the social events and the vox-pops during the sessions and tea breaks.
  • Netha Hussain - general help online, promotion on social media, blogging. --Netha Hussain (talk) 07:21, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
  • WereSpielChequers - some help but could be time limited.
  • Dieyna - able to help on the day (cloakroom, registration, etc). Contact Daria Cybulska.
  • Gordo (talk) - possibly running an evening walking tour around the BL, straight after close on either Friday or Saturday. Contact Daria/Stevie.
  • Julia Duggleby - help on Saturday/Sunday. Contact Daria.
  • Liz Perry - help on Saturday/Sunday. Contact Daria.
  • (talk) Happy to help in any suitable way, including standing in at the last minute on a panel or to help as MC or host. We may have an EGM in parallel at some point, I would expect this to be short and fall outside of any key time in the GLAM schedule. -- (talk) 12:15, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
    • Would you like to facilitate a session at the Sunday unconference? --CategoryError (talk)
  • Can we split the moderator role at coffee breaks though? As it happens I'd ideally change room at every break. Johnbod (talk) 16:12, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Ideally not as it would increase the number of moderators even further. I've put you down to moderate the keynotes. Jonathan Cardy (WMUK) (talk) 16:38, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Only there on Friday but happy to help Victuallers (talk) 11:38, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Session moderators

Session moderators are responsible for keeping sessions to time, introducing speakers and chairing Q&A sessions. Please sign up!

Moderators
  Bronte Room Chaucer Room Eliot Room
Friday 12-1 (talk) Katie Chan Andy Mabbett
Friday 3-3.45 Pranav Curumsey Katie Chan not needed
Friday 4.15-5 Pranav Curumsey not needed Andy Mabbett
Saturday 11-12 not needed (talk) Jon Davies
Saturday 12-1 not needed Richard Nevell not needed
Saturday 2-3 not needed Andrew Gray (talk) not needed
Saturday 3.30-4 not needed not needed not needed

I think there is a lot to be said for always having a moderator in the room, to handle questions & make sure things finish on time. I thought this worked well in DC. Johnbod (talk) 10:14, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

The "not needed" are cases where there's only one presenter in the room throughout the slot; if we have moderators to spare it'd be nice, but we probably need to prioritize the ones with multiple sessions. Andrew Gray (talk) 12:03, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

I can't do Elliot 11-12 on Saturday; I'm presenting in Bronte in that slot. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 11:36, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Visualisations

There was a recent comment on twitter about doing some sort of visualisation of GLAM content which read "@openstreetmap data visualisation: http://www.itoworld.com/static/data_visualisations.html via @itoworld Wouldn't that be epic for ‪#GLAMwiki‬ partners?". I am from ITO World and we would love to do something for you. Are the relevant people (or others) able to discuss in more detail what they had in mind here? The tweet did also kick off a parallel discussion on Commons:Commons talk:Geocoding about where to get the data which now seems to be sorted. PeterEastern (talk) 10:50, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

NHM

Would love to see participation from the NHM in this. They have the most globally relevant material in their collections, things that really need to be available outside of UK.

I met them last week, and they're definitely hoping to have someone there. Andrew Gray (talk) 11:02, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
I'll be there (Wikimedian in Residence at NHM and Science Museum) and two people from the Biodiversity Informatics department all being well, I've also put up some flyers around to encourage people from other departments. Mrjohncummings (talk) 15:00, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Suggestions of nearby Hotels or Dorms

Hi, do you have any suggestions for affordable hotels or dorms that are close to the venue? - It's always a pleasure to meet fellow Wikimedians already for breakfast! ;-) Beat Estermann (talk) 09:54, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Suggestions on the main page. Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk) 13:50, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Livestream

Hi, I was just wondering if there'll be any livestreams during GLAM-WIKI 2013? It would be great to have a digital backup (via Google Hangouts for instance). Regards, Peter Weis (talk) 21:00, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

All depends if we can get volunteers able to support - would you be free to do it? Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk) 12:22, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
During our original discussions with the British Library, they offered support for the Video Suite along with recommending services from an AV specialist that regularly works with them on events. At that time the intention was to establish a group of volunteers to work with a contracted specialist. Was this idea parked? Thanks -- (talk) 16:05, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
If I find capacity and volunteers to support it will happen. Currently working on making sure that parts of the event are recorded for future reference, which seems to be a priority. Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk) 15:37, 13 March 2013 (UTC). Update - we have looked at the BL service at it's too expensive. If anyone finds a good alternative for the Livestream I am happy for them to look into the arrangements and let me know.
I've made it work before using Livestream.com, you can record from a phone or tablet, the quality of the video and sound isn't great but it's free, would it make speakers nervous to have things live streamed? --Mrjohncummings (talk) 14:58, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Scholarships

I've just seen the main page section on scholarships. Presumably, for those of us speaking and/ or volunteering at the event, the usual Wikimedia UK expenses policy applies? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:21, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

We are keen to support speakers where necessary - could you email the office so that we can make arrangements? Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk) 12:25, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Discounted admission to GLAMs or tours?

Hi there,

I see there is one tour on the 11th. I'm not sure when I'll arrive in town, so I was curious if there will be discounted admission to GLAMs during the weekend or specific tours in the evening (backstage pass style). While I do intend on spending the majority of my time at the conference, I just wanted to know there were options incase I needed a break or did want to take advantage of the institutions. Thanks! SarahStierch (talk) 04:07, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Hopefully you have received all the tours info on email by now! Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk) 11:47, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Remember that most museums are free anyway, except for some exhibitions. Johnbod (talk) 10:11, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Natural History Museum and Science Museum

Hi All

If anyone is coming into London on Thursday and would like to come to the Science Museum or Natural History Museum please do, if there are enough people coming I can sort out a specific or more general guided tour, obviously you're very welcome at any time if you can't come then.

All the best

--Mrjohncummings (talk) 12:05, 26 March 2013 (UTC) (Wikimedian in Residence Natural History Museum and Science Museum)

I've arranged a trip Thursday 11th of April 2- 4pm at Blythe House, one of the main stores for the Science Museum, there are limited spaces, 6 or 13 depending on interest, please let me know if you'd like to come asap. Will post a message to cultural partners also.Mrjohncummings (talk) 09:57, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Better late than never?

Hi all, apologies for having dropped off the radar recently. I've been up against some work and family issues and been struggling to commit time/energy to things. Sorry! If there's room and it would be useful for me to come along to any of this I'd really like to stay involved. I've signed up for the Sunday unconference but can come to more if there's room? Looks like a great programme! PatHadley (talk) 11:54, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi Pat, we should be able to fit you in. I've dropped you an email. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 14:13, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Feedback

The feedback from GLAM-Wiki 2013 has been compiled and can be viewed here. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 15:15, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

GLAM 2018

Attendees were asked how they saw GLAM in the next five years. The responses are below.

Your dreams

  • Universal high-speed wireless internet access
  • Public cultural institutions put all their digital collection in Wikimedia Commons

Your nightmares

  • Total disappearance of public fundraising for culture
  • Stupid multinational copyright treaty making it even more complicated and hard to share information
  • Too much stuff and no way through
  • Wikipedia has become a closed site for geeks only and nobody cares.
  • No more volunteers. Only institutional accounts.