GLAM Wiki 2025/Program/Program
Join us for GLAM Wiki 2025! If you can’t be with us in Lisbon, don’t worry — you can still join online. Auditorium sessions will be streamed with live English–Portuguese interpretation on Zoom. Sign up here!
October 30 (Thursday)
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All day:
- Collective Intelligence: A wall of ideas, drafts, commitments and contributions to GLAM-Wiki pages on Meta.
- Swag: Bring your tote bags, t-shirts, and other items you’d like to customize at the swag screen-printing activity in the Atrium.
| Time | Auditorium 🎥 Sessions streamed online! |
Room 1 | Room 2 | Room 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 |
Welcome to GLAM Wiki 2025 |
Opening session in the Auditorium |
Opening session in the Auditorium |
Opening session in the Auditorium |
| 09:15 |
Building the Future of Cultural Heritage Carlos Silva • Giovanna Fontenelle • Dalia Guerreiro • Ronaldo Mendes (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/Fy3i) |
Panel in the Auditorium |
Panel in the Auditorium |
Panel in the Auditorium |
| 10:15 |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
| 10:45 |
Decolonization Lightning Talks (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/FyCF) |
Understanding the Movement Ecosystem paper and the Global Resource Distribution Committee (GRDC) WikiResilience: Surviving a GLAM Partner Project |
Demonstrating impact via Commons Impact Metrics GLAMs & Web Archiving: Planning for the future, protecting the past |
100,000 Open Cultural Institutions The GLAM-Wiki technical infrastructure |
| 12:00 |
Lunch |
Lunch Global GLAM Call Organizers Meetup |
Lunch Wiki Women Meetup |
Lunch |
| 13:45 |
Data is Everything: Why Knowledge Institutions are the Future of AI (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/FyC5) |
Keynote in the Auditorium |
Keynote in the Auditorium |
Keynote in the Auditorium |
| 14:30 |
Technology Lightning Talks (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/FyCQ) |
Uncertain Futures, Shared Challenges: Protecting and Safeguarding Open Knowledge |
Commons Gallery: A Modern Way to Showcase Photos |
Lightning Talks in the Auditorium |
| 15:15 |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
| 15:30 |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Wikidata for resilient and inclusive knowledge infrastructures: a roundtable |
Coffee break |
| 16:15 |
Heritage at Risk Lightning Talks (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/FyCK) |
Mind the gap: learning how to avoid the 21st century black hole through better laws Wikidata and Wikisource – when two cool kids play together |
GLAM and Gender – Harnessing knowledge and practices to shape our collective future |
GenAI Meets GLAM: Building Sustainable Open Data Bridges for the Future Shani Evenstein Sigalov Don't Leave Without a Story: A GLAM Advocacy Sprint |
| 18:00 |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
| 19:00 – 21:00 |
Award Ceremony for Outstanding Professional in Promoting Open Access to Cultural Heritage | |||
October 31 (Friday)
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All day:
- Collective Intelligence: A wall of ideas, drafts, commitments and contributions to GLAM-Wiki pages on Meta.
- Swag: Bring your tote bags, t-shirts, and other items you'd like to customize at the swag screen-printing activity in the Atrium.
| Time | Auditorium 🎥 Sessions streamed online! |
Room 1 | Room 2 | Room 4 | Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (BNP) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 |
Welcome to Day 2 |
Opening in the Auditorium |
Opening in the Auditorium |
Opening in the Auditorium |
Opening in the Auditorium |
| 09:15 |
Digital Resilience (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/Fy3n) |
Panel in the Auditorium |
Panel in the Auditorium |
Panel in the Auditorium |
Panel in the Auditorium |
| 10:15 |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
| 10:30 |
Human Rights Lightning Talks (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/FyCN) |
Education, heritage and videogames |
Lightning Talks in the Auditorium |
GLAM Hackathon |
Workshop |
| 12:00 |
Lunch |
Lunch Edu Wiki Meetup |
Lunch UK & Ireland Meetup |
Lunch |
Librarians Lunch |
| 13:30 |
Group photo! | ||||
| 13:45 |
Resilience as a Tool (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/FyC3) |
Keynote in the Auditorium |
Keynote in the Auditorium |
Keynote in the Auditorium |
Keynote in the Auditorium |
| 14:30 |
Gender Lightning Talks (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/FyCH) |
Exploring CommonsDB |
Lightning Talks in the Auditorium WikidataCon Viewing Room |
Hackathon continues |
Workshop continues |
| 15:15 |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
| 15:30 |
Advocacy Lightning Talks (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/FyCD) |
noGLAMorɚ - culture, civil society and sustainability challenges AI and the Cultural Commons: Navigating a Polycrisis |
WikidataCon continues |
Hackathon continues |
Workshop continues |
| 17:45 |
GLAM Hack Presentation (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/FyBw) |
GLAM Hack presentation in the Auditorium |
WikidataCon continues |
Hackathon stops at 17:30 |
Workshop stops at 17:30 |
| 18:15 |
Closed |
Closed |
WikidataCon stops at 19:00 |
Closed |
Closed |
November 1 (Saturday)
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All day:
- Collective Intelligence: A wall of ideas, drafts, commitments and contributions to GLAM-Wiki pages on Meta.
- Swag: Bring your tote bags, t-shirts, and other items you'd like to customize at the swag screen-printing activity in the Atrium.
14:15-17:00:
- Join fellow Wikimedians for a relaxed Commons Photowalk through the streets of Lisbon! This informal group activity is led by Diogo Baptista and aims to capture the culture, architecture, and local surroundings of our host city, specially dedicated to Wiki Loves Monuments Portugal contest. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced Commons contributor, bring your camera or phone and help document Lisbon's charm for the free knowledge ecosystem.
| Time | Auditorium 🎥 Sessions streamed online! |
Room 1 | Room 2 | Room 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 |
Welcome to Day 3 |
Opening in the Auditorium |
WikidataCon Viewing Room |
Opening in the Auditorium |
| 09:15 |
Community Resilience (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/Fy3a) |
Panel in the Auditorium |
WikidataCon continues |
Panel in the Auditorium |
| 10:15 |
Coffee break 10:15 – 10:45 |
Coffee break 10:15 – 10:45 |
Coffee break 10:15 – 10:45 |
Coffee break
10:15 – 10:45 |
| 10:30 |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
WikidataCon continues |
Global GLAM Strategy Session |
| 10:45 |
Nominating Wikipedia for UNESCO Memory of the World. The never before told story (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/FyCV) |
Build Your Open Access Program From Scratch: Hands on with the GLAM-E Lab Open GLAM Toolkit |
WikidataCon continues |
Global GLAM Strategy continues |
| 11:30 |
Meet the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/FyCT) |
WikidataCon continues |
Global GLAM Strategy continues | |
| 12:00 |
Lunch |
Lunch Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Hub Meetup |
Lunch |
Lunch |
| 13:45 |
Keynote: Openness, still in? Building a Public Policy for Digital Heritage in Uncertain Times (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/FyB$) |
Keynote in the Auditorium |
Keynote in the Auditorium |
Keynote in the Auditorium |
| 14:15 |
Edit-a-thon in Room 3 |
Edit-a-thon in Room 3 |
100 Years of Júlio Pomar: A Multilingual Edit-a-thon |
Global GLAM Strategy continues |
| 14:30 |
Digital documenting cultural heritage in wartime: Ukrainian experience (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/FyCk) |
Educational resources for GLAM |
Edit-a-thon Júlio Pomar continues |
Global GLAM Strategy continues |
| 15:15 |
Reuse of public sector information: Saying Please or Saying Now (Watch the video: https://w.wiki/FyCX) |
Coffee break 15:15 – 16:15 |
Coffee break 15:15 – 16:15 |
Coffee break 15:15 – 16:15 |
| 16:00 |
Digitising Knowledge: Unlocking Kenya's, Nigeria's, and Ghana's Library Treasures Through Wikisource The Tapestry Project (Watch de video: https://w.wiki/FyCc) |
Collective Capacity: Skill Swaps for a Resilient GLAM-Wiki |
Edit-a-thon Júlio Pomar continues |
Global GLAM Strategy continues |
| 17:30 |
Closing |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
| 19:00 – 23:59 |
Closing Party! Closing celebration with Wikimedia and GLAM Wiki themed flash tattoo from local tattoo artist at
Carpintarias de São Lázaro | |||