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GLAM-WIKI Schedule Announced
In three weeks the UK cultural sector and Wikimedia community will gather at the British Museum to discuss how we can better collaborate. As we announced a couple of weeks ago, Kenneth Crews from Columbia University and Sue Gardner from the Wikimedia Foundation will be keynoting this event. Today we announce that the schedule for this conference has been published.
Blogger and author Cory Doctorow will be opening proceedings on Friday November 26th with a presentation provocatively entitled:
better than money will get you through times of being an irrelevant one."
In times of economic austerity, cultural institutions must examine new and imaginative ways to maximise the impact of their collections. We believe that with Wikipedia's global reach and non-profit, volunteer-driven, educational purpose we can collaborate very effectively. Virtually every UK cultural organisation has a volunteer program, yet very few have an e-volunteer program. Wikipedia could be that e-volunteer program.
- Sessions
Over the two days of the event we will have presentations by representatives of GLAM institutions from five European countries about how they are working with Wikipedia. Examples of projects being discussed include (but not limited to):
- The Federal Archive project - Germany.
- The Tropenmuseum project - Netherlands.
- The Regional Archive project - Sweden.
- The National Library project - France
- and of course the British Museum project - UK
Technical talks include issues of: reporting metrics; mass-multimedia collaboration; mobile and API usage; practical editing guides; as well as general tours of the Wikimedia projects.
One session, the very existence of which might surprise many people, is being given by Tom Morgan, Head of Rights and Reproductions at the National Portrait Gallery. Many will recall the conflicts that erupted between our two organisations last year and this is why Mr. Morgan's presentation, immediately after Sue Gardner's keynote, is entitled:
A perspective on the developing relationship between Wikipedia and cultural heritage organisations"
This will be the first time that the NPG has been able to express its perspective (and what it has learned since) on the debate to an audience of interested Wikimedians. Hard questions will be asked in both directions but this is an important forum to be able discuss our differences with civility.
- Evening public lecture
On the evening of Friday 26th there will be a lecture given by Kenneth Crews, Director of the Copyright Advisory office of Columbia University and author of the groundbreaking research Control of Art Museum Images: The reach and limits of copyright and licensing' on the topic of:
Following this presentation will be a discussion with panelists including: director of DACS Gilane Tawadros; Director of Europeana Jill Cousins; Head of Digital at the BFI Paula Le Dieu; Presenter of BBC's Digital Planet Bill Thompson.
- Registration
Full Registration (all tickets include attendance to the Friday evening public lecture "the free-conomy and the cultural sector):
- 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.
For more information this conference and to see the full schedule visit http://glamwiki.org and to register click here:
