GLAM Wiki 2025
The GLAM Wiki Conference 2025: A Week of Connection and Inspiration in Lisbon
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From 30 October to 1 November, the global GLAM, Culture and Heritage, and Wiki communities came together in Lisbon for the latest edition of the GLAM Wiki Conference.
Over three vibrant days, participants enjoyed more than 40 presentations and over two dozen workshops and trainings, all exploring this year’s inspiring theme: Resilience: Shaping the Future Through Community and Openness.
Couldn’t make it or want to relive your favourite moments? You can now watch the session recordings from the Auditorium, browse slides and documentation, and explore photos here on the program page and on Commons.
Welcome to GLAM Wiki 2025, the Wikimedia movement’s GLAM, Culture and Heritage Conference!
[edit]The GLAM Wiki community is a worldwide network, with projects, initiatives, and activities spanning every timezone and continent. This conference serves as a vital gathering for the community—a time to celebrate achievements, exchange experiences, foster learning, strengthen connections, and collaboratively shape the future of our shared mission.
This event is co-organized by Wikimedia Portugal (WMPT) and Wiki Editoras Lx (WELx). You can read more about this collaboration on Diff.
Our conference theme: Resilience
[edit]Shaping the Future Through Community and Openness
[edit]Resilience is the ability to adapt, recover, and emerge stronger in the face of challenges, whether they stem from natural disasters, economic downturns, social and political upheavals, or technological threats. Our movement and community have consistently encountered these hurdles, but more importantly, we have learned to navigate and overcome them. It’s time to celebrate our achievements, enhance our skills and capacities, and unite our efforts to create the future we envision. Resilience in its many forms is the theme of the GLAM Wiki 2025 conference.
Community resilience thrives on collaboration and connection. We emphasize open dialogue, relationship-building, and learning from one another, all while working towards shared goals and a strategic vision. Beyond our immediate movement, we advocate for the issues that resonate with us, embracing diverse and inclusive perspectives along the way.
Digital resilience focuses on improving tools and fostering continuous innovation. Our priorities include documentation, preservation, digitization, and stewardship, all bolstered by the principles of open access and a healthy technology infrastructure. For more than a decade, the Wikimedia universe has been a partner of the GLAM community in this realm, and we hope to continue to do so.
Who Should Attend?
[edit]This conference is designed for individuals and organizations engaged in cultural and heritage initiatives within the open movement. Our target participants include:
- Wikimedia Community Members working on projects with heritage institutions or running campaigns to enhance the representation of cultural and heritage diversity. GLAM Managers in Affiliates, WiR in cultural heritage institutions, among others.
- Professionals from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs), especially those involved in Wikimedia collaborations, seeking to exchange knowledge and best practices.
- Academics and Researchers with an interest in open access to cultural and heritage materials, exploring how Wikimedia projects can serve and be useful for their work.
- Public Policy Advocates and Civil Society Organizations working to expand access to cultural and heritage knowledge, particularly for underrepresented and underserved communities cultural groups.
- External partners such as international organizations committed to knowledge equity and digital heritage accessibility.
- And you!
Why In-Person Matters
[edit]This conference emphasizes the power of face-to-face interactions for strategic planning and strengthening partnerships, as well as impactful learning experiences. By bringing together voices from across the Wikimedia movement and beyond, we aim to drive discussions on inclusivity, representation, and sustainable digital heritage efforts.
Join us!
As we work together to advance open culture and ensure the accessibility of heritage for future generations!
Photos & Media
[edit]- Category:GLAM Wiki 2025 - official category on Wikimedia Commons
- Remember not to upload photos of people wearing orange lanyards. Thank you!