GLAM
Highlights of upcoming and ongoing activities
This Month in GLAM
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GLAM is an acronym for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. Cultural heritage provides part the bedrock for our verifiable information. It helps to keep all kinds of Wikimedia projects and the open internet trustworthy and reliable, with reference, nuance, and variety from all over the world.
The GLAM Community within the Wikimedia movement spans the globe, engaging with nearly every facet of the movement's work. From uploading visual and audio materials to Commons, to structuring data on Wikidata, to sharing historical texts on Wikisource, institutions and organizations of every size are natural strategic allies in the effort to make knowledge freely accessible to all.
GLAM Wiki global chat
There is GLAM-Wiki global telegram group for questions, discussions and broadcasting your GLAM related work. Click this link to join.
Mailing lists
- GLAM (archive) – GLAM
- GLAM-US (archive) – GLAM in the United States of America
- GLAMtools (archive) – The GLAMwiki Toolset (closed)
- Cultural Partners-l (archive) – GLAM & Cultural sector outreach (private)
Ongoing and past activities
- Conferences
- Batch Uploading on Commons – a central place for scheduling batch uploads (with a list of completed projects)
- Commons:Partnerships
Best practices
- Best practices in building a content partnership with a cultural institution
- Wikimania 2009: Liam Wyatt, Wikimedia & Museums – why we need each other and what we can do about it; Mathias Schindler, The anatomy of the Bundesarchiv cooperation: 100.000 freely licensed images for Wikimedia Commons.
- Positioning messages for documents intended for museums, libraries and archives (result of a brainstorming at the Wikimedia meeting in Paris, November 6–8, 2009)
- Documentation of the cooperation between Wikimedia and the German Federal Archives (German, English)
- The value of Structured data on Commons for GLAMs
Specific pages
- Cultural partnerships on the Wikimedia UK website
- A page giving advice to GLAM sector professionals has been written at Wikipedia: "Wikipedia:Advice for the cultural sector" (or WP:GLAM).
Other documentation
Legal/general background
- NPG issue; Protecting the public domain and sharing our cultural heritage (July 2009)
- "Archives or Assets?", Peter B. Hirdle, President of the Society of American Archivists (2003).
- "Public Domain Art in an Age of Easier Mechanical Reproducibility", by Kenneth Hamma, Executive Director for Digital Policy, J. Paul Getty Trust (November 2005).
- Museum Documentation and Wikipedia.de: Possibilities, opportunities and advantages for scholars and museums, by Thomas Tunsch, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, in J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds.). Museums and the Web 2007: Proceedings, Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics, published March 1, 2007.
- Research Institutes in the History of Arts against Rising Image Permission Costs (November 2008).
- Günter Waibel: Digital Image Licensing – The debate rages on… (May 2009)
See the outreach-wiki homepage for an archive of GLAM-Wikimedia collaboration activities