AvoinGLAM/Past activities
Past activities
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AvoinGLAM 2024
AvoinGLAM 2023
AvoinGLAM 2022
AvoinGLAM 2021
2020 and before
Highlights
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AI Sauna
AI Sauna was arranged in Helsinki after the Wikimedia hackathon in Tallinn. The event was a combination of a seminar, hackathon and sauna. It brought together two topics:
- The strategic discussion about the role of GLAM contributions in Wikimedia projects and the technology that enables them. Let's have sauna and sort it out!
- What does AI mean for GLAMs? We are inviting Finnish GLAMs, AI research projects and companies to learn & experiment together with the international Wikimedia community.
GLAM-Wiki pages revamp
The GLAM-Wiki community pages are a central resource for people working in the intersection of the Wikimedia platforms and the cultural heritage resources, whether they reside in institutions or within communities.
The project brings together initiatives from across the Wikimedia GLAM community, where our input is focused on the page design and functionality on Meta. Other initiatives include the initiative by Wikimedistas de Uruguay, the Metabase project and hopefully also the This Month in GLAM newsletter.
Wiki Loves Living Heritage
Wiki Loves Living Heritage invites heritage communities, Wikimedia volunteers, safeguarding organizations and authorities around the world to document and share Living Heritage together. The campaign in 2023 was set up to pay tribute to the 20th anniversary of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Hack4OpenGLAM 2020 & 2021
The long-awaited Hack4FI 2020 got cancelled on the eve of the event due to corona restrictions. It gave the push to create something new for the new situation. Hack4OpenGLAM was arranged as an online hack event as part of the Global Virtual CC Summit.
Hack4FI – Hack Your Heritage
Hack4FI – Hack your heritage hackathons have promoted the creative re-use of open cultural materials and the emergence of new applications and services for different sectors of society. They started out as a spinoff from a cultural hackathon organized by the newly established AvoinGLAM at OKFestival in Helsinki in 2012.
Wikidocumentaries
Wikidocumentaries is a browser and workshop for the cultural commons. It displays Wikimedia content together with open materials from across the web on a separate audiovisual participation layer. Further aggregation and full participation capabilities are the goal of the next development phase.
Junior hackathon
Museums, companies and NGOs worked together with children to create something new from cultural heritage. Old photographs, archive soundtracks, TV clips or old newspapers were given a new lease of life as 7–15-year-olds clashed, mixed, scratched and encoded them.
Kohti avointa kulttuuria guide
Kohti avointa kulttuuria is an introduction to open culture and how memory and cultural organisations can open up their material to a wider audience. It takes the reader towards a more open culture and a shared cultural heritage.
Open Cultural Data Masterclass
Open Cultural Data Masterclass trained cultural and arts organizations in opening up digital cultural resources in spring 2014. The course materials were used to compile an openly accessible online material package and a guide Towards Open Culture tailored for cultural heritage organisations. The project was funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture.