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''This post was written by Martin Lugton, co-organiser of THATCamp London 2013 –  The Humanities and Technology Camp. It is the first in a week of guest posts related to our GLAM-WIKI Conference, which takes place this weekend at the British Library, London.''
''This guest post was written by Lizzy Jongma, Data Manager at the [https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/ Rijksmuseum], Amsterdam and is part of a series building up to our GLAM-WIKI conference which takes place from 12-14 April at the British Library, London. Lizzy is delivering a keynote presentation at on Friday 12 April.''


I’m excited about THATCamp London 2013 because I’m trying to understand what digital technology might mean for culture. What are digital’s possibilities for the creation, sharing and experiencing of meaning? How might digital help us understand ourselves and our works, or allow us to challenge and transform our understandings of the world?
'''Amsterdam, April 2nd 2013'''


My academic background is in ‘non-digital’ history, so I’m still quite new to this area of thought. While I encountered some weighty work with datasets in my time as an undergraduate – for example the work of the Cambridge Population Studies Group – my course did not explore digital humanities. My primary interest was in cultural history, and reading Chartier’s Forms and Meanings started me off thinking about forms, context and meaning. So I’ll be hoping to think about meaning and culture as well as seeing examples of work with large datasets at THATCamp London 2013.
Tuesday afternoon and I am looking out of my office window. It is situated in one of the 8 towers of the Rijksmuseum and it is of the old boardrooms. It’s a beautiful room with a nice view on the western part of the museum gardens. The garden gates are still closed and everything looks serene. Silence before the storm. The last days before the museum will reopen after a decade of extensive renovations. My mind wanders off. Flowers, Dutch skies, sculptures. Objects from our collections.


I’ve been developing my skills to better enable me to actively participate in digital culture. In the last year I’ve started learning programming (Python and C), and I hope that THATCamp London 2013 will allow me to get a better idea of the types of projects I might be able to contribute to, and the directions in which I might like to develop these skills.
The Rijksmuseum is all about art, about images, about sharing the best quality. So everyone can experience, discover, enjoy, zoom in, use etc. Digitisation and the internet gave us new opportunities to open our collections to a global audience. It gave us new possibilities to share images and information with audiences that can’t access our museum. Because it’s closed, because objects are stored or because they live in another part of the world. Over the last years the Rijksmuseum worked hard to achieve digital quality and openness: high res images on our new website; sharing, downloading and reusing objects in [https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio Rijksstudio] and technical access for developers through the Rijks API. And ‘en passant’ my head was filled with thousands hidden treasures.


In addition to participant-run seminars and workshops, as part of THATCamp London 2013 we’re also hosting a Europeana hackathon. So there’s going to be lots of creative activity around the Europeana catalogue of cultural works, using the Europeana API. I’m looking forward to seeing what sort of things people are doing with APIs – or could be doing! It’ll be my first hackathon, so I’m interested to see what sort of scope and scale of activity can feasibly be carried out in such a short sprint.
'''Amsterdam, April 5th 2013'''


I’m looking forward to a varied, challenging and exciting day, and to making some connections with other THATCampers.
Friday morning. The day after the press opening. Journalists from all over the world came to see the museum… And they loved it! Images and films of our new galleries were broadcast in dozens of countries. Our website was visited by 54.000 unique visitors, visiting a staggering 421.000 pages. Rijksmuseum was 7th trending topic on Twitter.


If you’d like to join us, this free one-day unconference – supported by Wikimedia UK and held at the British Library – is taking place on Sunday 14 April. This comes at the end of the GLAM-WIKI conference, which brings Wikimedians and cultural institutions together to share experience and ideas. We’d love for you to join us. To register your free place, [http://london2013.thatcamp.org/2013/02/20/you-are-invited-to-thatcamp-london-2013/ please head over to the THATCamp London 2013 website].<span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/04/thatcamp-london-have-you-registered-yet/<nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>
I am looking out of my window again and thinking about next Friday: GLAM-WIKI UK! Where I will present our digital strategies, projects and results. Share our experiences with online friends and visitors. The new friends we were able to make over the last decade. Just one day before our queen will open the museum on Saturday April 13th at 12 o’clock.<span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/04/glam-wiki-keynote-preview-lizzy-jongma-rijksmuseum-amsterdam/<nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>


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