AvoinGLAM/de
AvoinGLAM is a working group under the auspices of Open Knowledge Finland, promoting Open Access to cultural heritage. Our goal is to make GLAM activities more inclusive, diverse, and equitable by expanding the scope of modalities, topics, and practitioners of cultural heritage, and addressing questions of ethical sharing. With this in mind, we wish to interpret the acronym GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) as Global Languages, Art & Memory.
We promote creative collaborations and peer learning across the range of GLAM practitioners. We function at the intersection of Wikimedia, Creative Commons and Open Knowledge, advocating for the cultural commons – collaboration across organizational and domain boundaries to create an interoperable, vibrant and responsible open culture ecosystem.
AvoinGLAM has been established in 2012, and it has been supported by a Wikimedia Foundation Community Fund since 2022.
Besonderheiten der Aktivitäten von 2024
AI Sauna
The event in May after the Wikimedia hackathon in Tallinn brings 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 Open Culture community.
Coordinator: Susanna Ånäs
Media Art History on Wikimedia projects
AvoinGLAM commemorates the work of Minna Tarkka (1960–2023) by celebrating the Media Art History in Finland (MEHI) project. MEHI is a major effort by Finnish arts organizations to record and publish the history of Finnish media art and to build information infrastructures for its documentation. The project uses Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons for open sharing of results.
Together with the Finnish network of organizations, we collaborate on a tribute, and with international experts on archiving media art we create a blueprint for archiving media art on Wikimedia projects in an expert meeting in October. We wish to ensure that the knowledge of media art in Wikidata continues to grow by inviting artists and organizations to contribute their knowledge directly to Wikidata.
Coordinators: Andrew Paterson and Susanna Ånäs
Wikidocumentaries for Wikimedia projects
We have created Wikidocumentaries for exploring the global cultural commons and contributing to it. In our view, the Commons is the knowledge that the institutions, individuals and the open projects together make available and Wikidocumentaries can bring them together. We propose to further develop Wikidocumentaries as a platform for making use of the creative possibilities of the audiovisual, intelligent linked open ecosystem.
Coordinators: Susanna Ånäs and Tuukka Hastrup
GLAM-Wiki pages revamp
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.
Coordinated by Susanna Ånäs.
Vergangene Besonderheiten
Wiki Loves Living Heritage
Hack4OpenGLAM
Wikidocumentaries
Hack4FI
Vorherige Jahre
AvoinGLAM 2023
AvoinGLAM 2022
AvoinGLAM 2021
2020 and before
Join our global community
Starting in 2024, AvoinGLAM invites members to our global community. The community will be involved in discussing the activities of the group. To be eligible for running for candidacy in the Steering group of AvoinGLAM or vote for the candidates, an individual must be a member of Open Knowledge Finland.
Share your stories about working with us
We invite you to share your experiences of working with us, or thoughts about how we could work together in the future. We appreciate expressions of support for our activities, even if we had not worked together before.
Governance, program and funding
AvoinGLAM is an unincorporated group working with Open Knowledge Finland as the fiscal sponsor.
AvoinGLAM meetings are open for anyone to attend. There is no formal membership. We invite anyone to join Open Knowledge Finland as member.
Team
Steering group 2024
The core group was elected on 13 December in the annual meeting of AvoinGLAM.
- Tove Ørsted
- Tuomas Nolvi
- Kimberli Mäkäräinen
- Julia Brungs (in private capacity)
- Ranjit Menon
- Sophea Lerner
Staff & contractors
- Susanna Ånäs (Susannaanas) 🦜, coordinator
- Andrew Paterson (6–10/24), coordinator of Archiving Media Art
Fiscal sponsor Open Knowledge Finland
- Susanna Ånäs, Interim ED
- Mehalet Yared, chair of the board
AvoinGLAM representative in OKFI Board
- Andrew Paterson (until 6/24)
