GLAM Wiki 2023/Program/Day 1

Logo GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 ID: 2026 Open Refine Wikimedia Commons training session
Facilitators/Speakers: Spinster Time block: Morning Beginning: 10:30
Location: 401 Duration: 1 hr 15 min
Description:

A workshop on using OpenRefine to edit and upload files on Wikimedia Commons, with a focus on structured data. This workshop is for participants with an intermediate level: some prior knowledge of / experience with structured data on Wikimedia Commons is expected, and some experience with OpenRefine is desired.

After this session, attendees will have basic knowledge about using OpenRefine to edit and upload files to Wikimedia Commons, with a focus on structured data.

Experience level: Intermediate
Keywords: Capacity building & training, Linked data, Content uploads & workflows
Notes: #GLAMWiki232026
Next session: Music on Wikimedia projects
Logo GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 ID: M002 Proyectos Wikimedia para principiantes
Facilitators/Speakers: Paula Domínguez Font, Federico Colman, Evelin Heidel Time block: Morning Beginning: 10:30
Location: 110 y 111 Duration: 45 min
Description:

¿Recién entrás al mundo Wikimedia y no sabés por dónde empezar? Esta sesión es para que puedas aprovechar al máximo la experiencia de la Conferencia GLAM Wiki. Si te perdiste entre la cantidad de términos nuevos, en esta sesión te explicamos el ABC de qué es Wikipedia, qué es Wikimedia, y de qué manera se vinculan todos estos proyectos con la misión de las bibliotecas, los archivos y los museos.

Experience level: Beginner
Keywords: Capacity building & training
Notes: #GLAMWiki23M002
Logo GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 ID: 2351 Learning Clinic: Connect-a-thon
Facilitators/Speakers: Gorana Gomirac, Bukola James Time block: Morning Beginning: 10:30
Location: 410 Duration: 1 hr 15 min
Description:

Join us at the upcoming GLAM Wikimedia Conference for an exciting and interactive Connectathon focused on improving connections, and mutual relations, but also on the development of ideas related to the improvement of the GLAM program, as well as the Wikimedia movement. This event is designed to bring together all the conference participants passionate about sharing knowledge and preserving cultural heritage. The Connectathon is an open, fun, and safe space for participants of the Conference to share their common interests and skills while embodying the "Let’s Connect" spirit of peer connection, inclusion, and collaboration. This event aims to connect conference participants in an informal yet enriching way, fostering deep discussions on topics important to the conference and to the Wikimedia movement. At the heart of the Connectathon is the desire to create an environment where diverse voices and perspectives come together.

Participants will leave with enriched skills, new connections, and a deeper understanding of collaboration in the Wikimedia and GLAM communities. They'll carry forward the Let's Connect spirit, empowered to contribute meaningfully to open knowledge and cultural heritage preservation.

Experience level: Begginer
Keywords: Capacity building & training, Wikimedia campaigns
Notes: #GLAMWiki232351
Next session: Capacity Exchange: Peer Learning and Sharing for GLAM Initiatives
Logo GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 ID: M001 Music on Wikimedia projects
Facilitators/Speakers: Akbar Ali, Rute Correia Time block: Morning Beginning: 11:45
Location: Auditorium Duration: 30 min
Description:

In this session, you will learn about the Malayalam Mala Project (from Kerala, India) and One Year of Wiki Loves Música Portuguesa: how a thematic campaign helped create a strategic path for GLAM at Wikimedia Portugal.

The Malayalam Mala Project is a Wikimedia initiative to collect and preserve the lyrics of Malayalam malas, which are traditional songs of praise sung by Muslims in Kerala. Malas are a rich part of Kerala's cultural heritage, and they provide a unique way to learn about the history and traditions of the region. The Malayalam Mala Project is part of the GLAM project in Kerala, which is a larger initiative to digitize and preserve Kerala's cultural heritage. The Malayalam Mala Project collected the lyrics from a variety of sources, including manuscripts, published works, and oral tradition. The lyrics will be transcribed into Unicode and uploaded to Wikisource.To bring these malas to life, the project encouraged singers from the local community to record and share their renditions of these odes. These audio recordings will be made available in Wikimedia Commons, ensuring wider accessibility and preserving these traditional melodies for future generations.

The campaign Wiki Loves Música Portuguesa launched in November 2022. The project was developed as an aggregator: on one hand, it would leverage the ongoing Wikimedian residency at NOVA FCSH; on the other hand, the wide scope of the project could enhance other partnerships for Wikimedia Portugal, particularly regarding cultural heritage. Indeed, the initiative sparked multiple partnerships with other institutions, including Portugal's national public service broadcaster, amongst others, revolutionizing the work at WMPT. In this session, we will showcase our biggest achievements, reflect on the biggest challenges we faced and get feedback from the GLAM Wiki community on how we can do better.

Experience level: Begginer
Keywords: Content uploads & workflows, Wikimedia campaigns, Partnership building (GLAM Wiki collaborations, etc.), Good practices on digital heritage, Oral history and documentation
Notes: #GLAMWiki23M001
Next session: Co-Creating an AI Responsive GLAM-Wiki Curriculum
Logo GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 ID: 2147 Capacity Exchange: Peer Learning and Sharing for GLAM Initiatives
Facilitators/Speakers: Andi Inácio Time block: Afternoon Beginning: 13:30
Location: 410 Duration: 1hr
Description:

The Capacity Exchange is an initiative developing a platform for peer-to-peer connection and capacity building within the Wikimedia Movement.

The session aims to discuss peer learning and sharing as a strategy for community-based capacity building around GLAM initiatives. Such a perspective focuses on the decentralized exchange of knowledge-skills-services, rather than centralized training and knowledge transference, as a methodology for the Global Approach for Local Skill Development.

Participants attending the session will be able to input needs and perspectives regarding community capacity building. The main take-away is the exchange of experience regarding sociotechnical issues and solutions for GLAM-focused peer learning and sharing.

Experience level: Intermediate
Keywords: Capacity building & training
Notes: #GLAMWiki232147
Next session: “Sharing is caring, but who cares?” How can we tap into the collective knowledge & experience in the GLAM-Wiki movement
Logo GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 ID: 1875 Flickypedia - alpha showcase, feedback, discussion
Facilitators/Speakers: George Oates, Alex Chan Time block: Afternoon Beginning: 16:00
Location: 410 Duration: 1 hr
Description:

By the time the conference rolls around, we should have an Alpha version of our new Flickypedia tool ready for people to try. We would like to have a workshop to show the group the new release, and to talk more broadly about what people are thinking about the following topics: Flickr2Commons, Using Flickr, Using Wikimedia Commons, Structured Data on Commons, how CC licensing is evolving, and in general some hopes and dreams for the next decade or so.

We hope the session would be quite relaxed and conversational, and we'd prepare an agenda ahead of time.

It will be a good opportunity to do broader outreach too, about the Flickr Foundation, and its very long term goals.

Participants will gain:

  • Awareness of the new Flickypedia tool
  • Improved understanding of CC-licensing requirements for Commons
  • Ideas/awareness of Structured Data on Commons
  • Experience of software development user research
  • Awareness of legal challenges of moving content across platforms
  • Hopefully, a feeling of contribution to a very long term idea
  • Contribution of knowledge/perspective on broader GLAM-related issues/needs

Our presentation is available as Google Slides. Please enjoy!

Experience level: Beginner
Keywords: Tech, platforms & tools, Copyright & public domain
Notes: #GLAMWiki231875
Logo GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 ID: M007 GLAM around Latin America: case studies from big institutions
Facilitators/Speakers: Mauricio Genta, Alicia Laszlo, Lilian Viana, Irene Tobón Restrepo Time block: Afternoon Beginning: 14:30
Location: Auditorium Duration: 1 hr
Description:

Show this session for a showcase of case studies from big institutions from Latin America.

1. Colaboración entre el Archivo General de la Nación (Argentina) y Wikimedia Argentina

This session will present the first collaboration between the National Archives of Argentina and Wikimedia Argentina, the local chapter. Both institutions have been working for more than a year in the digitization of 21 boxes of photographs from the publisher "Caras y Caretas", the case will show the view of this first work from both sides.

2. GLAM Bibliotecas da USP

It presents the GLAM Wiki USP Libraries, a Brazilian academic libraries project and the different axes of action in this initiative created in 2020: editing articles about researchers on Wikipedia , cataloguing scientific articles on Wikidata, creating metadata to link libraries repositories and catalogues to Wikidata, training student in media and information literacy activities using Wikipedia Project page: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:GLAM/Bibliotecas_da_USP. Participants will know initiatives developed by academic libraries with Wikimedia projects on the axes: information organization and education. We hope to discuss the potential of library activities with Wikimedia projects and help participants to identify possible activities to carry on in their contexts.

3. The Banrepcultural Encyclopedia: A digital encyclopedia of Colombian cultural heritage, born from the collaboration of visitors to the Banco de la República Libraries

The Banrepcultural.org Encyclopedia is a virtual digital publication that seeks to expand knowledge about Colombian cultural heritage on the web to promote the diversity of knowledge about Colombia. We believe that, as individuals and as cultural institutions, we have a responsibility to lead and support initiatives that seek to reduce these gaps in access to knowledge.

Is a free access publication and, although the edition is closed, since its origin, in 1995, a good part of its contents are generated at the request of our readers, which we collect through crowdsourcing campaigns. Although it was born under the name Ayuda de Tareas and was dedicated to general themes, as of 2017 its content has specialized in Colombian cultural heritage. In that year, it was renamed “La Enciclopedia…”, and it was implemented in the MediaWiki manager. With this relaunch, new calls were created for the generation of information through thematic projects such as Colombianas Notables, which was supported by a collective strategy focused on listing the essential names of women relevant to the country's history, and later commissioning their writing. Same with the Rio project and Bicentennial project. It currently has more than 2,000 articles and biographies, born from original research that we have commissioned from specialists, both members of the Bank and external. Some biographies have also been translated into English.

In this new phase we want to integrate La Enciclopedia with the tools and projects of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia and Wikidata, to boost their discoverability, as well as expand collaborative projects to translate articles into other languages and the indigenous languages of the country. We will start with the commission to create articles on the region of La Giajura and the Wayúu culture, which will be published in Spanish and in the Wayúunaiki language, in collaboration with the Wikipeetia (the wayuunaiki Wikipedia) team.

Experience level: No previous knowledge is necessary
Keywords: Partnership building (GLAM Wiki collaborations, etc.)
Notes: #GLAMWiki23M007


Logo GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 ID: 2282 Co-Creating an AI Responsive GLAM-Wiki Curriculum
Facilitators/Speakers: Silvia Gutiérrez, Giovanna Fontenelle, Paula Durán, Jonathan Jiménez Salazar Time block: Afternoon Beginning: 14:30
Location: 410 Duration: 1 hr
Description:

Librarians, archivists, museum professionals, and knowledge workers are having to rapidly adapt to new forms of inquiry brought on by Artificial Intelligence (AI). From the fears of biased AI hallucinations to the fascination of AI enhancement, knowledge workers are in critical need of the skills and knowledge to navigate the AI turn aptly. However, as AI advances rapidly, GLAM workers often feel overwhelmed with the bulks of information that requires to be processed. Informed by the learning spaces of digital humanities institutions, that bridge the gaps between manual and computer-assisted methods, this workshop will map the questions, tools, readings, and learning spaces techniques that could be operationalized by GLAM workers to create reference learning spaces for the discussion (and learning) of AI’s potentials and dangers towards culture and heritage.

This workshop will be guided by practitioners with experience designing digital humanities learning spaces as well as library-led, and museum-centered seminars and discussion groups. We will bring this expertise together so that participants return to their institutions with the building blocks to create relevant syllabi, and design discussion groups, as well as AI experimentation workshops that address common questions around AI in GLAMs.

Experience level:
Keywords: Cross-pollination, Artificial intelligence, Capacity building & training
Notes: #GLAMWiki232282