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.

We are also happy to accept suggestions for panel discussions or for workshops.

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

{{subst:SubmissionsWikiCon
| Talk title  = 
| Username    = 
| Length      = 
| Description = 
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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

Europeana and the Wikimedia movement

• Presenter Name: A shared presentation by John Andersson, User:John Andersson (WMSE) together with a speaker from Europeana.
• Talk Length: 30 minutes (20-25 mins talk, 5-10 mins questions/discussion)
• Talk Description: A brief introduction to Europeana and what Europeana is working with, followed by an overview of Europeana's support and cooperation with the Wikimedia movement to date (from sponsoring Wiki Loves Monuments to the current cooperation between Europeana and both Wikimedia Sweden (with Europeana Awareness) and Wikimedia Netherlands (with batch uploads)).

Local museums and Wikimedia - an untapped goldmine?

• Presenter Name: Rock drum
• Talk Length: 20 min (10-15 mins talk, 5-10 mins questions/discussion)
• Talk Description: Using Wikimedia UK's partnership with Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry as a case study, I'll be talking about why collaborating with local, smaller cultural institutions is something that chapters (but particularly WMUK) aren't doing and why they should. I hope to round off the session with questions and a round table discussion on the topic. [I'm not available on the Friday.]

Wikipedian-in-Residence for a whole town?

A workshop in the local library

• Presenter Name: David Parreño Mont
• Talk Length: 15 min
• Talk Description: Palafrugell, a peaceful village in the Mediterranean Costa Brava, is the first municipality around the world with a Wikipedian-in-Residence for the whole town. It consists in merging the concept of a Wikipedian-in-Residence with the aim of projects like MonmouthpediA. After convincing the cultural institutions and the Town Council itself, I have been serving several local cultural institutions at a time, with the aim of improving Palafrugell cultural institution's presence internationally. I have been coordinating and building bridges between the Wikipedia community and the local cultural institutions, looking for releasing materials (text, photo, video) and organizing wiki-events.

Beyond pilot projects: Working Wikimedia into the workflow of an organization.

• Presenter Name: Lori Phillips
• Talk Length: 20 min
• Talk Description: The ultimate goal of a GLAM-Wiki partnership is to establish an ongoing and sustaining program within a cultural institution. Successful long-term GLAM-Wiki partnerships are those who manage to incorporate Wikimedia into the everyday workflow, but we are only just beginning to understand what this might look like. This presentation will mark the beginning of the dialogue needed to establish best practices around long-term GLAM-Wiki cooperations, presenting one instance of an ongoing partnership that has worked to balance the museum staff's time with the needs of the Wikimedia community.

QRpedia latest

• Presenter Name: Andy Mabbett, User:Pigsonthewing
• Talk Length: 20 min
• Talk Description: A brief overview of QRpedia, and a summary of recent changes, developments and new/ planned deployments.

Overcoming resistance

• Presenter Name: Andy Mabbett, User:Pigsonthewing
• Talk Length: 20 min
• Talk Description: Common reasons for not working with Wikipedia/Wikimedia given by GLAMs; and how to counter them.

Collaborating with a whole network of Public Libraries.

• Presenter Name: Carme Fenoll, introduced by User:Kippelboy
• Talk Length: 20 min
• Talk Description: Wikipedia is the entrance door to knowledge in digital world, as libraries are in "real" world. So it makes sense to do things together. Following this principle, Amical has reached an agreement with the Cultural Department of the Government of Catalonia, to promote Wikipedia among the Network of Catalan Public Libraries. We are establishing lines of collaboration with the glamwiki community, making it bigger, deeper and incorporating new content and users. 150 professional public librarians have already received Wiki training, in order to subsequently invite library users to join wiki projects. Also 1500 copies of the Welcome to Wikipedia manual have been printed and spread among the Libraries network. Session will be presented by Carme Fenoll, Catalonia's Libaries Network Director & Àlex Hinojo, Amical GLAM-WIKI coordinator.

State of GLAM in Catalonia

• Presenter Name: User:Kippelboy (Àlex Hinojo)
• Talk Length: 20 min
• Talk Description: GLAMwiki is one of the most successful tracks in Catalan Wikipedia. In this presentation I will show how all-size institutions can get into GLAMwiki projects, showing several succesful projects, done without many resources but with the commitment of both communities: Wikipedians and GLAM professionals. I want to explain how non-English Wikipedias can enlarge their audiences and their editor's communities using existing cultural communities (i.e.:Friends of the museums, universities, museum-retired professionals...)

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

A drawer in the Australian National Insect Collection, with Buforania grasshoppers on display.

• 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. Building on a similar talk at Wikimania, this session is devoted to reporting on what has happened so far as much as to seeding a strategy for things to come.

A quarter of a Million edits: A new kind of Wikipedian in Residence

• 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 case is made that Library data is of special importance to Wikipedia, and in the future, Wikidata. And a vision for a new kind of Wikipedian in Residence paradigm considering larger-scale long-term projects with focus on integrating data rather editing content.

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.

This Means War: Wikipedia and The National Archives

• Presenter Name: Jo Pugh
• Talk Length: 20 minutes
• Talk Description: Central government meets the open content revolution. Have the results been pretty? What have we achieved so far and what should be the aims for the future? [I'm not available on the 15th, unfortunately]

Being Bold: the next Wiki-Town?

• Presenter Name: Roger Bamkin, John Cummings, Tyson Lee Holmes et al (TBA)
• Talk Length: 20 minutes
• Talk Description: So there was a project called Monmouthpedia and it has been quite successful. Its the first time that Wiki has partnered with a public body. By the time the paper is presented WMUK will have announced at least one more town and Gibraltarpedia will be in full swing. This new project aspires to be the first wiki-city - at the very least. It aims to not only be cross-cultural, multi-national and multi-lingual but also transcontinental. How does Wikimedia square up to a government? What are the barriers? How do you plan innovation? How do you make it work?

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. Exploring Science Museums through Science GLAM ! Nicke.me (talk) 15:48, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
8. GLAM Strategies and Experiences in the German Chapter --Barbara Fischer (WMDE) (talk) 08:23, 7 May 2012 (UTC)`
9. Wikidata, what's in it for GLAM-Wiki? Aude (talk) 15:06, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
10. Our project with Europeana. Multichill (talk) 19:08, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
11. Overview of past and future GLAM projects in a certain country (state of GLAM in .....). Multichill (talk) 19:08, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
12. 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.
13. 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)
14. The Wikimedia movement and the memory of World War I - The Land (talk) 12:21, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
15. 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.

How can Wikimedia simultaneously partner with every GLAM organisation in the country?

• Presenter Name: Mike Peel (talk) 05:22, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
• Talk Length: 60 min
• Talk Description: WMUK has thus far mostly been partnering with individual organisations for specific one-off or recurring events. However, there are over 2,500 museums in the UK - and many more archives, libraries and galleries. In order to achieve the goal of sharing the sum of all human knowledge, the Wikimedia projects need to strive to work with all of these organisations simultaneously. This panel discussion aims to address the question of how this can be done - including both events that involve a large number of partner organisations, and how to develop Wikimedia UK so that it could coordinate a thousand events a year (or how to embed Wikimedia in a thousand events a year). The panel will consist of both GLAM and Wikimedia representatives to discuss this issue.

Should GLAM organisations release all of their content under a free license?

• Presenter Name: Mike Peel (talk) 05:22, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
• Talk Length: 60 min
• Talk Description: A panel to debate the question of releasing archives under free licenses. Is this good or bad for the archive/museum? This could be done as a 'For' vs 'Against' panel, similar to how Liam Wyatt organised a discussion about fair use at Wikimania 2012. The panel will consist of both GLAM and Wikimedia representatives to debate this issue.