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 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 institutions. 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 - Jill Cousins, Europeana; Paula Le Dieu, BFI; Gilane Tawadros, DACS; Bill Thompson, BBC. 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
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  Cory Doctorow

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  Sue Gardner

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  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.

Schedule

Friday 26th

08:30 Registration

09:00 Welcome Liam Wyatt, conference Convener; Mike Peel, Wikimedia UK

09:15 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

10:00 The Community: Introducing the Wikimedians & run down of the sessions

10:20 Morning tea

10:40 Parallel Sessions 1

• Joscelyn Upendran
  • Creative Commons and the cultural sector - copyright without the boring bits

• Jill Cousins
  • Europeana and Wikimedia

• John Byrne
  • Guided tour of Wikipedia

11:30 Parallel Sessions 2

• Jane Finnis

Leveraging Wikipedia for small/regional GLAMs

• Andrew Dalby

Wikipedia for Librarians

Sebastien Beyou

Collaboration with the Bibliotheque National de France

• TBA presenter

Wikipedia editorial policies & how GLAMs can avoid common pitfalls

• TBA session

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Unconference Sessions

Proposals & organisation, then breakout into groups

15:00 Parallel Sessions 3

• Matthew Cock & Liam Wyatt

The Wikipedian in Residence project

• Josefien Schuurman & Maarten Dammers

The National Archives of the Netherlands

Sussanne Ton

The Tropenmuseum

• TBA session

16:00 Wrap up

Dinner

Location TBA, meeting up with attendees of MCG conference.

Friday 26th, Evening lecture: The Free-conomy and the cultural sector

Time	BP Theatre, Clore education centre
19:00	Arrival
19:15	Keynote: Dr. Kenneth Crews, Director of the copyright advisory office, Columbia University, New York
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

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...