OpenGLAM-related events: March/April highlights
On the OpenGLAM homepage, we maintain a calendar of events to notify everyone in our network of relevant events related to opening up cultural heritage. This post highlights events taking place in March and April: if you know of an event that should be in our calendar, please notify us by adding it here!
5 March: Webinar Open Licensing: What Is It, Why Do It? (online)
In this free one-hour webinar, a panel of experts will host a roundtable discussion on the different ways for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) of all sizes to openly license their collections, as well as the potential benefits and challenges for implementing open licensing. Digital strategist Michael Edson of the Smithsonian Institution and OpenGLAM Advisory Board member will moderate the discussion: OpenGLAM working group member Sarah Stierch is on the expert panel as well. More information and registration is poossible through this page.
9 March: Early English Books Hackfest (Oxford, UK)
Following the release of 25,000 texts from the Early English Books Online project into the public domain (read more), the Bodleian Libraries are hosting a hackday around this impressive text corpus. Students, researchers from all disciplines, and members of the public with an interest in the intersection between technology, history and literature are invited to work together to develop a project using the texts and the data they may generate. The EEBO-TCP corpus consist of over two million pages and nearly a billion words from the period 1473-1700, with texts across all academic disciplines, including literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics and science. More information on the event is available here.
10-12 April: GLAM-WIKI 2015 (The Hague, The Netherlands)
GLAM WIKI 2015 is a conference about projects by Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs) in collaboration with Wikimedia projects and/or that have another open knowledge component. Professionals and volunteers are very welcome. The goals of the conference are:
- To share lessons learned and best practices on this subject.
- To inspire and motivate participants to join existing or to start up new projects that support the mission of the Wikimedia movement.
- To increase awareness of the importance of freely accessible cultural heritage and to put currently available content in the spotlight.
An overview of all submitted proposal to the event is available here: submissions include an update from the OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey (link), a talk on How to Guerilla GLAM by OpenGLAM Working Group member Subhashish Panigrahi (link) and a case study on how a mid-size institution can benefit from opening their collection by OpenGLAM working group coordinator Joris Pekel (link).
17-18 April: DPLAFest 2015 (Indianapolis, USA)
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together digitized cultural heritage materials from American libraries, archives, and museums, and makes these available as freely and openly as possible. To mark the second birthday of DPLA, the DPLAfest 2015 invites teachers and students, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, developers and technologists, publishers and authors, genealogists, and members of the public to discuss everything from technology and development, to (e)books, law, genealogy, and education. The event will be a mix of interactive workshops, hands-on activities, hackathons, discussions with community leaders and practitioners, and more: registration is possible through the DPLA website.
26-29 April: 2015 Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo (Atlanta, USA)
The theme of this year’s American Alliance of Museums annual meeting is ‘The Social Value of Museums: Inspiring Change’, inviting participants to consider how museums can embody their increased social value and engagement through their educational mission, their programs and collections, their community presence and their public service. In addition, during this event the winners of the MUSE awards, the annual competition recognizing outstanding achievement in Galleries, Libraries, Archives or Museums (GLAM) will be presented, featuring a dedicated Open category for projects using open data and content.
This is just a selection of events: you can find our complete calendar of events on the OpenGLAM homepage!