GLAM-WIKI 2013/Call for papers

To submit a talk, simply use the template below to specify the title of your talk, your name, how long it will be and a short blurb as to what it is about. Whilst you are here comment on other people's suggestions as to whether you think it is a good idea. You will be contacted in the coming weeks if your talk is selected.

If you have any questions, please post them on the talk page, and/or contact daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk

Template

Please use the template code below, adding to the top of the #Talk proposals section

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which gives an output of the following kind:

An interesting and informative title

• Presenter Name: Johnbod
• Talk Length: short
• Talk Description: vital

Talk proposals

Working together from shared ideals: Wikimedia NL and Teylers Museum

• Presenter Name: Geert-Jan Janse & Sandra Fauconnier
• Talk Length: 20 min
• Talk Description: Teylers Museum in Haarlem, the Netherlands was founded in 1778 as a centre for contemporary art and science. In line with the ideals of the Enlightenment the founders aimed to collect and share all knowledge available to mankind. The first purchase for the new museum was significant: the Encyclopédie by Diderot and d’Alembert. In 2001, Wikipedia was founded “to provide free access to the sum of human knowledge”. Based on the shared values and goals of both organisations, the Dutch chapter of Wikimedia and Teyler Museum have 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? Geert-Jan Janse, project manager digitisation of Teylers Museum, and Sandra Fauconnier, board member for cultural projects at Wikimedia NL, will together present different aspects of this project from the point of view of both the museum and Wikimedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Teylers

Science GLAM

• Presenter Name: Daniel Mietchen
• Talk Length: 20 min
• Talk Description: 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. This session is devoted to reporting on what has happened so far as much as to seeding a strategy for things to come.

The road to a quarter of a Million edits.

• Presenter Name: Maximilian Klein
• Talk Length: 20
• Talk Description: As much as you think Wikipedia has a lot of information, there is an order of magnitude more bibliographic data. Part of this database can be usefully linked to Wikipedia - and Wikidata - in a meaningful way. This the story of, and lessons learned from, Max Klein's attempt to link Authority Control data with Wikipedia as part of his Residency with OCLC. A vision is sketched out for a linked data bridge between Wikipedia and GLAMs.

African content on Wikipedia

• Presenter Name: Iolanda Pensa
• Talk Length: 20 minutes
• Talk Description: Many GLAMs around the world have a rich documentation related to Africa; providing those contents to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects can foster their visibility and access, and it can contribute to the involvement of new national and international audiences in sharing their knowledge. The experience of the projects WikiAfrica and Share Your Knowledge, and the production of 30.000 African contribution to Wikipedia by 2012.

Earlier suggestions

Potential ideas submitted:

1. How to turn a city into a living open knowledge experience. [Nominating John Cummings and Roger Bamkin] --Fæ (talk) 08:23, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
2. Revelations from the British Library Wikipedian in Residence project. [TBA] --Fæ (talk) 08:23, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
3. Planet GLAM; moving beyond Wikimedia Chapters and local GLAM projects. --Fæ (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 --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.
12. GLAMs focussed on Africa or with African contents. Many institutions around the world have a rich documentation related to Africa; providing those contents to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects can foster their visibility and facilitate their access (schools, intercultural and multicultural projects, diaspora, migrants, Africa). --Iopensa (talk) 09:50, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
13. The Wikimedia movement and the memory of World War I - The Land (talk) 12:21, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
14. Why don't UK museums make large releases of images under free licences? Johnbod (talk) 17:08, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Photographer / Wikipedia Photography Club

• Presenter Name: Nasir Khan Saikat
• Talk Length: 25min
• Talk Description: We can encourage the group of people who loves to take photographs. This will help us to continue the GLAM activities all the year round and those places(countries) where the existing wiki community is not that big enough. I did a little homework on this topics and got some point which will be helpful

1. In every university (in my country) there is a photography club/community
2. in every 2weeks they arrange photowalks
3. a large number of people share good quality photographs in Flickr, Facebook, Google plus and some other social sites
4. most of then are interested to join contest
5. they love to show their best photos with others

there are other few findings. Based on these i think we can encourage those group of people to contribute to Wikipedia. Wikimedia commons has its own structure to select the featured and quality images. We can use this to boost the interests of the participants. At the same time we can start to use the term Wiki Photographer for those wikipedians whose contributed images has been used at least 10 articles of the wikipedia. I have other few plans to extend the activities and involvements.