Wikimedia+Libraries Meetup 2022/Manifesto/Documentation

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23-24 July 2022 | Maynooth - Ireland


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WikiLibrary Manifesto, Wikimedia Deutschland (2020): The WikiLibrary Manifesto aims at connecting libraries and Wikimedia projects such as Wikibase in an international network of knowledge. Our goal: The creation and implementation of a single linked open data network for art, culture and science.

Professional Ethics, ALA (2019): The foundation of modern librarianship rests on an essential set of core values that define, inform, and guide our professional practice. These values reflect the history and ongoing development of the profession and have been advanced, expanded, and refined by numerous policy statements of the American Library Association. Among these are: access, confidentiality/privacy, democracy, diversity, education and lifelong learning, intellectual freedom, preservation, the public good, professionalism, service, social responsibility, and sustainability. (...)

OpenGLAM Principles v.1.0: This is the fourth version of the OpenGLAM principles which we have drafted together with the OpenGLAM Working Group. We would like this to be a community effort so please give feedback on the OpenGLAM mailing list! (...)

Galleries, libraries, archives and museums have a fundamental role in supporting the advance of humanity’s knowledge. They are the custodians of our cultural heritage and in their collections they hold the record of humankind.

The Ethics of Librarianship, IFLA (2012): This Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct is offered as a series of ethical propositions for the guidance of individual librarians as well as other information workers, and for the consideration of Library and Information Associations when creating or revising their own codes. (...)

Wikimedia Foundation/Values (2010): ...

Librarianship in an ever-changing world, (2015)


We are also considering the next documents:

● Budapest Open access Initiative (BOAI), (2002)

● Berlin Declaration, (2003)

● Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, (2003)