GLAM Wiki 2025/Program
Whats to expect from the program?
[edit]- Thematic panels and community presentations
- Workshop: A hands-on experience workshop for cultural institutions entering the world of GLAM
- Hackathon: A hackathon to collaboratively solve challenges in our community
- Strategy: A strategy session to map the interdependencies between GLAM entities and support structures with actionable outcomes
- Cultural Tours: A series of tours through the cultural landscape of Lisbon staring on October 29 to November 2
- Meet-ups: Would you like to host a meet-up at GLAM Wiki? Send an email to the organizers with your request by 15 October.
Thematic tracks
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Collections beyond GLAM -
Community and sustainability of the movement -
Emergency and recovery -
Tools in practice
- Collections beyond GLAM: expanding the broadness of what GLAM can encompass and narrow the digital divide - collections outside of formal institutions, gender gap, decolonization, restitution, minority and underrepresented languages, traditional knowledge, and restitution.
- Community and sustainability of the movement: Global GLAM Strategy & GLOSS, governance, development and resilience of institutional partnerships, community engagement.
- Emergency and recovery: natural catastrophes, climate change, war zones, culture-averse governments, human rights and other urgent challenges that jeopardize GLAM work in a time-sensitive manner.
- Tools in practice: innovative and good practices, tool innovation, WMF tech infrastructure, metrics, AI.
Conference Theme: Resilience, 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, community, and partners have consistently encountered these hurdles, but more importantly, we have learned not only to navigate and overcome them, but also to continue working on our mission. 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 movement has been a partner of the GLAM community in this realm, and we hope to continue to do so.
We value learning and sharing in multiple formats and hope to be able to experience the potential of collective intelligence in practice; we encourage interaction and different activities: conversations wider than roundtables, workshops that foster hands-on approaches and other experimental formats are welcome.
Evaluation process update
[edit]In total, 67 proposals were accepted (36%) from 42 different countries!
Over the past few weeks and months, the GLAM Wiki Organizers and Program Committee have been hard at work putting together a comprehensive and exciting conference program for you all. We have now completed the review and accepted and declined proposals have been informed of our decision.
You can already see a few program items published here on Meta-wiki, including information about the Hackathon (31 October), the full-day workshop in Portuguese about GLAM Wiki tools and platforms (31 October), the Global GLAM Strategy Workshop (1 November), as well as the cultural tours, keynote speakers and thematic panel discussions.
For transparency about the process here is how the proposals received were evaluated:
- All 183 proposals were divided amongst the 18 committee members for scoring, having at least 3 people review each proposal. Total scores were averaged on a scale from 1-5, with 5 being the high score.
- The COT, together with two other members of the committee, drafted a first selection for the program, taking into consideration the scores, global representation, and the theme and priorities of the conference.
- The draft was presented to the entire program committee for approval
- The draft was presented to the entire COT for approval, and a waiting list was created in case of substitutions
- Accepted proposals were informed of the decision
- Declined proposals were informed in batches as the accepted proposals confirmed their intent to participate and register for the conference.