GLAM Wiki 2023/Program/Tags/Knowledge equity

ID: 2138
Facilitators/Speakers: Amanda Figueroa	Time block: Afternoon	Beginning: 14:30
Facilitators/Speakers: Amanda Figueroa	Location: 411	Duration: 1 hr
Description: In this session, Curationist will present an early-stage idea for a Wikidata-compatible by design metadata schema, conceived as a low impact out-of-the-box solution for small museums seeking to release their collections under open access licenses. Curationist’s mission is to bring together arts and culture communities to find, share, and work together to reimagine cultural narratives, and we believe that an important component of this work involves helping small, often underserved, museums and archives achieve parity with major cultural heritage institutions. As a result, our focus in 2024 will be on designing methods and tools that attempt to help these small organizations to be equally present in online open access spaces like WikiCommons and the Curationist platform. We present this project to the GLAM Wiki community in order to identify potential challenges to interoperability based on previous work in this area, as well as to surface potential collaborators interested in participating in this initiative with us. We are particularly interested in perspectives and voices representing non-Western collections and non-English languages. Feedback from participants will be recorded by the Curationist team and shared back to the Wiki GLAM community through a one page writeup on the Curationist website following the event. Participants will gain an understanding of the Curationist platform and how to use it, as well as about our current efforts in making the process to make digital collections accessible, interoperable, and multilingual. Information on how to partner or collaborate in this effort will also be shared		Experience level: Intermediate
		Keywords: Digitization, Knowledge equity, Open access to heritage
		Notes: #GLAMWiki232138

ID: 2212
Facilitators/Speakers: Carma Citrawati, Udayana University, Satdeep Gill	Time block: Morning	Beginning: 9:00
	Location: 411	Duration: 15 min
Description: In this session, you will learn from: 1. Preservation and Rescue Balinese Traditional Manuscripts on Balinese Wikisource The Balinese people keep an inheritance of knowledge in the form of traditional manuscripts known as Lontar. Lontar is a manuscripts written on palm leaves in Balinese script that provides Balinese knowledge such as medicine, astronomy, history, and so on. The current lontars that the community has inherited are in poor condition and require maintenance. Lontar's rescue requires a large platform and coordinated movement. The Denpasar Wikimedia community began with the WikiLontar project, which resulted in the conservation of many palm lontars in Bali. The lontars are cleaned, identified and digitized so that future generations of Balinese can enjoy them. The difficulties are considerable. Starting with convincing the owner, Lontar's numerous conditions, and the lengthy procedure. Wikisource The saved Lontar Bali found a "new home" on Bali. Wikisource not only saves Lontar images, but it also allows the next generation to learn more about Lontar by reading, typing, and identifying Lontar. The existence of Wikisource as a new home for Lontar Bali is a new source of optimism for Bali's digital lontar life. 2. Wikisource & its growing love for manuscripts Wikisource, a sister project of Wikipedia, is a transcription platform and a free online library of public domain and CC-licensed texts. It is one of the largest collaborative library which support over 70 languages around the world. In past years, we have seen Wikisource growing into the core infrastructure for some of the marginalized language communities. This session will start with an introduction to Wikisource and the associated workflow. The rest of the session will focus on Wikisource Loves Manuscripts (WiLMa) project. We will share learnings from the WiLMa pilot in Indonesia, including the collaboration with the British Library. Finally, we will end the session updates related to the WiLMa Learning Partners Network.		Experience level: Beginner
		Keywords: Knowledge equity, Heritage at risk
		Notes: #GLAMWiki232212

ID: 2273
Facilitators/Speakers: Michaela Blanc, Paula Domínguez Font	Time block: Morning	Beginning: 11:30
	Location: Auditorium	Duration: 30 min
Description: In 2023, Art+Feminism completed its tenth year of operation. From its founding to today, the organization continues to work to decrease the knowledge gap regarding gender on the internet and art world while continuing to expand the visibility and knowledge about femme-identified artists in museum collections globally. This panel will contribute to discussions about and connect GLAM professionals to international efforts on the representation of feminism, art and visual culture on Wikimedia projects highlighting its potential societal impact on media literacy. The audience will learn from the unique perspectives of Art+Feminism’s Regional Leaders. In detail, this session will explore how museums and cultural organizations can broaden their efforts toward tangible actions to address access and knowledge equity through media literacy and inclusive learning programs. Providing foreground to this session, a case study about how the Caribbean Cultural Institute at Pérez Art Museum Miami, and Art+Feminism — “a campaign improving coverage of cis and transgender women, non-binary folks, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia” — were paired in the development of media literacy programs will launch the conversation into how museums can have an impact on younger generations and openly share museum scholarship online. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on the implications of one of the largest online encyclopedias on art museums, libraries and organizations in different regions of the world. Participants will leave the session inspired to implement mission-driven innovative avenues for audience engagement, media literacy, and critical thinking through diverse art narratives in their institutions. We also hope participants engage in the A+F campaign, contribute to discussions and advance equitable practices around museum access and content development in their affiliated institutions.		Experience level: No previous knowledge is necessary
		Keywords: Knowledge equity, Partnership building (GLAM Wiki collaborations, etc.), Wikimedia campaigns
		Notes: #GLAMWiki232273

ID: 2274
Facilitators/Speakers: Mariana Fossatti, Ivonne Gónzalez	Time block: Morning	Beginning: 10:30
	Location: 110-111	Duration: 1 hr 30 min
Description: Language justice note: Please note that this activity will be guided mainly in Spanish, although you can participate in the language in which your memory speaks. We will do our best to assist each other in translation in basic guidelines. Other ways of participation and memory activation rather than words will be encouraged, like drawing, collage, embroidery, movement and even silence. This will be an unconventional session based on artistic activation practices. It will begin with an open conversation guided by cultural collectives and activists from Uruguay who will bring to the center perspectives usually marginalized in GLAM projects but actively present in living community cultures: voices of indigenous peoples, black women, LGBTIQ+ collectives. They are: Museo Afroviviente, Visibles and Kevin Royk. In this conversational first stage, we want to reflect together around decolonizing memory as a tool for liberation and reparation in which the concerned collectives claim back their own voices to provoke significant dialogues with the broader society. After this conversation, we will then facilitate a moment of collective artistic activation. Everyone is invited to carry a significant object rooted in their memories: the lyrics of a song, the drawing of a place, a face, a gesture, a poem, a school booklet, soil, a small plant, a blanket, a photo. With these objects we will create an ephemeral archive, in which all the memories will be living together, dialoguing, mingling. It will be our mosaic of living collective memory. With this activation phase, we seek to experience how subjectivity takes part of and shapes social and political history and its multiple narratives, encoding cultural objects with plural meanings. Our intention is to offer meaningful questions to foster reflections around rarely visited aspects of our practices in GLAM Wiki projects. How can collective memory processes foster social debates to transform dominant colonial narratives in GLAM? How GLAM wiki projects work with living memory, which is often process-based rather than object-based? How do we work with ephemeral, situated, interactive and participatory memory-making processes? Is this even possible with the usual workflows, practices and tools for digital collections, heritage structured data, and so on?		Experience level: No previous knowledge is necessary
		Keywords: Decolonization, Knowledge equity, Memory and human rights
		Notes: #GLAMWiki232274

ID: 2224
Facilitators/Speakers: Laura Mariana Casareto, Archivo Histórico de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata Angie Cervellera, Wikimedia Argentina	Time block: Afternoon	Beginning: 14:45
	Location: Auditorium	Duration: 45 min
Description: This talk will present two projects: Archivos abiertos es un derecho Presentation of the project Archivos abiertos is a right of the Historical Archive of the UNLP and Wikimedia Argentina. The project had the objective of releasing in Commons documents of the GLAM community of the UNLP linked to the claim of Human Rights and to link these documents and disseminate them through other Wikimedia projects. In this way, it covers the release of documents without restrictions in the Commons, their use in Wikipedia articles, the creation of articles and the educational proposal using these sources and working on what an archive is and why it is related to Human Rights in Wikiuniversity. This project brings diversity to Wikimedia projects, adding situated perspectives on the past and present of the Argentine context as well as the Latin American context in general, since dictatorial processes are not exclusive to this country. In the same way, it contributes to think of the Wikimedia movement in the future as a movement committed to human rights, truth and justice, involving citizens through uploading and editing content in Wikimedia projects. Archivos en Vigilia: Archivos en Vigilia, an online cultural and memory initiative organized since 2021 by Wikimedia Argentina and the Historical Archive of the National University of La Plata that focuses on archival documents. The objective is to promote open access to photographs, manuscripts, audios, videos related to memory, truth and justice in recent Argentine history. Every year more GLAM institutions from all over the country get involved through talks and workshops to open their archives without restrictions in Wikimedia Commons. Archive and memory are related to access to information, as well as to the search for truth and the right to know. The files of detainees, disappeared or murdered, the photographs of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo demanding justice, the documents collected by the National Committee for Disappeared Persons, are some examples that bear witness to what has happened in the recent past and the fight for Human Rights. Humans. The documents that participate in Archivos en Vigilia are uploaded to Commons taking into account the intellectual property legislation of Argentina and the United States, the Personal Data Protection Law (25,326) and the Access to Public Information Law (27,275). Documents are parsed in terms of authorship and creation or publication dates and are uploaded with different license tags, as well as connected to structured data.		Experience level: Beginner
		Keywords: Partnership building (GLAM Wiki collaborations, etc.), Knowledge equity
		Notes: #GLAMWiki232224

ID: 2075
Facilitators/Speakers: Jazmin Tanner, Fiona Romeo, Angie Cervellera	Time block: Afternoon	Beginning: 16:00
	Location: 411	Duration: 1 hr
Description: Join an early demo of a tool focused on empowering app users to contribute and enhance Wikipedia articles by adding crucial alt-text to images. Alt text is important for people with no or low vision and also for readers who turn off images due to low internet bandwidth or high mobile data charges. With 95% of Wikipedia images currently lacking alt-text, our tool aims to bridge this accessibility gap and foster inclusivity within the Wikipedia community. During the session, attendees will have the unique opportunity to witness a live demo of the alt-text adding tool, hear about some of the research that has gotten us to this point, and provide feedback on what changes should be made to the tool before it is fully rolled out. We will also be demonstrating past microtask tools built in the apps as an indicator of what a future iteration could look like with the assistance of AI. There will be an opportunity for attendees to sign up to serve as quality checkers of the output of the feature once it's been released. Attendees will be able to provide early feedback to an alt-text adding tool in the Wikipedia apps and evaluate the guidance being used to create the tool. We also hope to inspire attendees to expand thinking of ways technology can be ethically used to address accessibility gaps in our collective pursuit of ensuring everyone can share in the sum of all knowledge.		Experience level: No previous knowledge is necessary
		Keywords: Artificial intelligence, Knowledge equity, Tech, platforms & tools
		Notes: #GLAMWiki232075

ID: M015
Facilitators/Speakers: Nassima Chahboun, Carlo Brescia, Patricia Díaz Rubio, Catalina Frigerio	Time block: Morning	Beginning: 9:30
	Location: Auditorium	Duration: 1 hr
Description: In this session, you will learn about: 1. Told Cities project: Reinventing built heritage documentation Told Cities is a project by Wiki World Heritage UG, for the documentation of World Heritage cities through a creative approach, in terms of: 1-Content: The project consists of the creation of a wiki-based website that provides thorough documentation of many tangible and intangible aspects of WH cities (buildings, streets, sound, arts, people, etc.), the website gives access to this information through +500 interactive maps, timelines, and graphs, generated from Wikidata, for +100 cities. 2-Stakeholders: The project is being implemented in collaboration with Heritage NGOs, with a focus on countries without Wikimedia affiliates. 3-Activities: The project is being implemented through a series of training of trainers for volunteers in the target countries, this is in order to equip the locals with the necessary skills to implement the wiki campaigns themselves (editathons, photography contests) and catalyze the creation of new Wikimedia communities in these countries. The session will give a presentation of the project, but most importantly will discuss the reasons behind developing it in this specific format and how it responds to heritage professionals' needs. The goal of presenting Told Cities as a case study is to open the discussion on how to make Wikimedia platforms and tools more accessible to heritage professionals. 2. Indigenous knowledge, epistemic decolonization and the power of images: a GLAM photographic journey into the world of sacred plants from the Peruvian Amazon region Ikaros are magical songs used by traditional healers in the Peruvian Amazon to summon spirits, activate an object or to weave the energetic threads of life of a patient. Ikaros are taught by plant spirits and learned by healers during prolonged periods of restricted diet and isolation. Some of these teacher plants are Ayahuasca, Tobacco and Coca. This type of knowledge has been and is still threatened by other worldviews that see them as sinful practices, backward traditions and quackery. WikiAcción Peru 's first GLAM project with Takiwasi Center in Tarapoto resulted in the liberation of more than 1200 images related to traditional medicine from the northern Amazon of Peru. Through this short photographic journey, we propose a reflection on how South American indigenous knowledge is sometimes persecuted, appropriated, conserved and restituted. As the results of this process are relevant to communities in Peru beyond the ones that read and edit Wikipedia, I will present the museographic proposal for an itinerant exhibition to be implemented in Cusco in 2024 based on this presentation and the GLAM project. The exhibition’s objectives are not only to mobilize knowledge related to indigenous knowledge but also about the Wikimedia movement and Glam projects in Peru. 3. Documenting social movements through Wikimedia projects		Experience level: Beginner
		Keywords: Re-use & re-interpretation of digital heritage, Knowledge equity
		Notes: #GLAMWiki23M015