GLAM Wiki 2023/Program/Workshopping Metadata Interoperability for Small Museums

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
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