GLAM-WIKI 2010

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 In these times of economic austerity, Galleries, Libraries and Museums have to look for new and imaginative ways to maximise the impact of their collections and knowledge. While online collections are a popular and exciting route to engage with their audience, they typically only have small numbers of visitors - whereas working with the Wikimedia websites would offer Galleries, Libraries and Museums a new window on a potential global audience of over 375,000,000 people worldwide. At this conference you will hear how some Museums are already leveraging the connection between sharing a part of their own collections with Wikimedia and seeing some amazing benefits – such as a sharp increase in web traffic to their site and an increase in sales of merchandising. Attendees will better understand the crossover of mutual interest that Wikimedians share with curators of cultural heritage. You will learn about examples of how this form of collaboration has begun with firsthand examples from cultural institution in five European countries, and you will be able to explore ways in which the Wikimedia community could work with you in your own local communities, yet with a worldwide impact. This event is particularly relevant to representatives of the licensing, web, curation and interpretation departments in cultural institutions. Main Events Friday 26 - Policy Keynote presentation by Cory Doctorow - science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger. Arguing that "trading relevance for funding is a bad bargain". Day one will focus on the policy issues that affect collaboration between the cultural sector and Wikimedia 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 Saturday 27 - Practice Keynote presentation by Sue Gardner - executive director, Wikimedia Foundation Day two will focus on the practical aspects of collaboration

Registration 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.

Schedule

Friday 26th

Time	Clore education centre
09:00 Registration
09:30 Welcome	Liam Wyatt, conference Convener; Mike Peel, Wikimedia UK
09:40 Welcome	Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
10:00 Keynote	Cory Doctorow "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." followed by Q&A
10:45 The Community	Introducing the Wikimedians & summary of the sessions
11:00 Morning tea
11:30 Plenary	Joscelyn Upendran: Creative Commons and the Cultural Sector - Exercise Your Copyright to Help Build a Shared Culture Matthew Cock: The Wikipedian in Residence project Jill Cousins: Europeana and Wikimedia
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Parallel Sessions 1	Jane Finnis: Leveraging Wikipedia for small/regional GLAMs Andrew Dalby: Wikipedia for Librarians, Sebastien Beyou & Jean-Frédéric Berthelot: Collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France Roger Bamkin: A history of the world in 100 articles
15:00 Unconference Sessions	Proposals & organisation, then breakout into groups
15:30 Parallel Sessions 3	Josefien Schuurman & Maarten Dammers: Collaboration projects at the National Archives of the Netherlands & Frank Meijer: The Tropenmuseum Daniel Pett: Integrating volunteers and Experts - examples from the Portable Antiquities Scheme John Byrne: Guided tour of Wikipedia
16:30 Wrap up
Dinner	Location TBA, meeting up with attendees of MCG conference.

Friday 26th, Evening lecture

Time	BP Theatre, Clore education centre
19:00	Arrival
19:15	Keynote: Dr. Kenneth Crews "The Free-conomy and the cultural sector"
19:45	Panel responses & audience Q&A Panelists: Director of Europeana Jill Cousins; Head of Digital at the BFI Paula Le Dieu; director of DACS Gilane Tawadros; Presenter of BBC's Digital Planet Bill Thompson.
20:45	Close

Saturday 27th

Time	Clore education centre
08.30 Arrival
09:00 Welcome	Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
09:10 Keynote	Sue Gardner followed by Q&A
10:00 The Community	Introducing the Wikimedians & run down of the sessions
10:20 Morning tea
10:40 Parallel Sessions 1	Tom Morgan: Wikipedia and the National Portrait Gallery - A bad first date? A perspective on the developing relationship between Wikipedia and cultural heritage organisations Hampton Catlin: Mobile Wikipedia & the Wikipedia API & David Evans Harris: Collaborative Video and the Wikimedia Commons Mark Hahnel: A wiki as an editable aggregator of scientific information & Daniel Mietchen: Wikis for academic publishing
11:30 Parallel Sessions 2	Mathias Schindler: Building links between cultural items in libraries and archives & Kajsa Hartig: Nordiska Museet Mia Ridge: Summary of the MCG conference WereSpelChequers: Guided tour behind the scenes of Wikipedia
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Unconference Sessions	Proposals & organisation, then breakout into groups
15:00 Parallel Sessions 3	Daniel Pett: Integrating volunteers and Experts - examples from the Portable Antiquities Scheme Nadia Arbach: Wikipedia Loves Art and the V&A - the good and bad Jean-Frédéric Berthelot & Bastien Guerry: Partnership with the City of Toulouse Maarten Dammers: The technology of mass multimedia partnerships & Magnus Manske: Reporting metrics on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons
16:00	"what next?" & Close