13 September 2021 |
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Hack4OpenGLAM starts in a week! |
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20 September The event kicks off will the GLAM School day of panels and tutorials, and culminates in the Grand Pitching Session for hack projects.
21–23 September Time from Tuesday to Thursday is spent independently hacking in between CC Summit sessions.
24 September The results of the week's work will be celebrated in the Final Gala on Friday.
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To follow the GLAM School Day program, you will need to register for the Creative Commons Summit and sign up for the Hopin platform. The registration fee is voluntary, and registrations are accepted throughout the event.
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Revitalizing Endangered Languages |
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20 September 09:00–10:30 UTC. Chair: Sadik Shahadu. Panelists: Satdeep Gill • Mali Brødreskift • Aremu Anuoluwapo • Abdul-Rasheed Yussif • Olushola Olaniyan and more. |
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This panel brings together practitioners working with indigenous and endangered languages. It shows what tools and strategies are available for revitalizing the languages within the open ecosystem.
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Vulnerable Archives |
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20 September 11:00–12:30 UTC. Chair: Annet Dekker. Panelists: Miranda Siler • Ranjit Menon • Lozana Rossenova • Georgina Burnett • Mariana Ziku and more. |
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This panel looks at cultural heritage that falls outside existing systems of preservation and sharing and seeks new practices for broader inclusion of these bodies of knowledge.
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Wake-up Call for Heritage at Risk |
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20 September 13:00–14:30 UTC. Panelists: Majd Al-Shihabi • Evelin Heidel • Nassima Chahboun and more |
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Cultural heritage buildings, monuments and sites are increasingly exposed to major problems and threats: armed conflicts and wars, natural disasters, climate change, pollution, mismanagement and uncontrolled activities. In this session, we explore the possibilities offered by open platforms and tools to monitor and assess these threats, and raise awareness among local communities.
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Decolonizing Metadata |
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20 September 20:00–21:30 UTC. Chair: Sandra Fauconnier. Panelists: George Oates • Zack Krida • MHz Curationist and more. |
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This panel imagines how open media platforms can help underrepresented communities correct or protect data about them in the metadata that accompanies the media files and why it is important.
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OpenRefine |
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20 September 09:00–10:30 UTC. Instructor: Sandra Fauconnier. |
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OpenRefine (previously Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it, transforming it from one format into another, and extending it with web services and external data.
This tutorial demonstrates the basic functionalities of OpenRefine, and will also demonstrate how to reconcile data with Wikidata. Suggestions of interesting datasets to work with are welcome!
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Transkribus |
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20 September 11:00–12:30 UTC. Instructor: Joseph Nockels. |
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This workshop enables participants to use the Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) tool Transkribus, a way of rendering historical manuscript material into machine-readable printed text. It showcases how to upload document images to the platform, run automated features like line segmentation and layout/document analysis, as well as how to train an AI-enabled model to automatically transcribe text. Once a trustworthy rendition of the text is transcribed as machine-readable text, institutions and scholars can begin to make the past readable and accessible through audio software and other digital methods.
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Understanding Wikimedia Projects |
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20 September 13:00–14:30. Instructor: Andrew Lih. |
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An introduction to key projects of the Wikimedia movement – Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata – in the context of GLAM and Creative Commons.
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20 September 18:00–19:30 UTC |
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The Grand Pitching Session |
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All projects that are registered at Hack4OpenGLAM have the opportunity to present in the Grand Pitching Session. If you are interested in presenting, register your project at Hack4OpenGLAM!
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21–23 September |
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Hacking on the Mattermost community platform |
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The registered projects have channels where they can chat with other participants and arrange video conferencing session with Jitsi. You can still register your project at Hack4OpenGLAM. Registration is open throughout the event.
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Present your project in the last weekly meetup |
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In the weeks leading to the event, we have arranged weekly meetups on Thursdays at 1pm UTC. In the meetups, project ideas have been shared and discussed, and they have been further promoted in newsletters and tweets.
Present your project
Type it in the collaborative notes. To make tweeting and promoting easier, write a short summary, add a link to an image and to the project documentation. Also write what kind of collaboration you are looking for. Make sure you have registered the project.
Meeting times
You will always find the right time and channel through this link or by clicking the button below.
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Bettina Fabos |
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Fortepan |
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The Fortepan local history project scans, curates, and organizes family snapshots (shoebox archives) and other regional photos along a timeline and releases them with a Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA). Bettina is affiliated with fortepan.us, one of the two versions of the project.
She presented a list of 10 Fortepan Iowa initiatives to ask the Hack4OpenGLAM community to identify initiatives of greatest interest. These we the top ones:
1. Tagging Circles. Fortepan Iowa has started to create tagging circles of people interested in particular topics, such as cars, farming equipment, or a specific town. In these circles, Iowans can share their local expertise and meet other people with similar interests. Fortepan Iowa's most engaged partners are libraries, and they are beginning to advertise tagging circles through local public libraries.
2. Embed capability. This feature allows cultural heritage organizations to embed a subset of the photo archive on their website and showcase photos relevant to their specific publics. For example, a tractor museum can show just Iowa tractors. See the embedding prototype, and an example.
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Hilman Fathoni, CC Indonesia/KUNCI Study Forum & Collective |
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Perpustaxaan |
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Perpustaxaan is an initiative, a method, and a platform that collects and showcases collections of subculture-related artefacts openly online. These collections are gathered from various online and offline resources, which so far consist of more or less 600 music from hardcore and punk bands (#PunkArsipan) and 500 titles of independent publishing (zine and underground newsletter or pamphlet). Both of the collections are made and published in and by Indonesian.
More information https://perpustaxaan.miraheze.org/wiki/Halaman_Utama
What kind of collaboration are you looking for at Hack4OpenGLAM?
Similar projects that have concerns on questions like "what kind of archives have not been properly 'managed' in my local context?" and "how can I articulate the best archival method to respond to those archives?" We think we can start a lot of conversation from those two questions which then could lead us to talk about tools, ethics, and more ways of articulating these fragments of knowledge.
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Hilman Fathoni, CC Indonesia/KUNCI Study Forum & Collective |
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Public Domain Indonesia Database and Catalog |
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This web portal documents and helps to find information about public domain works in Indonesia. This project also tries to articulate this information through various collaborations, such as the opening artistic initiative on decolonizing public domain colonial archives of Indonesia.
More information https://perpustaxaan.miraheze.org/wiki/Halaman_Utama
What kind of collaboration are you looking for at Hack4OpenGLAM?
We look forward to seeing if there are other similarly local projects and hope that we can start a conversation around the the best tools to manage this kind of information.
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Europeana Translation Sprint |
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Following last year's success, Europeana is bringing back the translation sprint!
The objective of the sprint is to get key copyright and Open GLAM documents from Europeana into more languages. In the focus of this year's sprint are the Public Domain Charter and the Rights Labelling Flowchart. View the project for more details!
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Volunteer activities at Hack4OpenGLAM |
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When you sign up on the Hack4OpenGLAM community platform, you can be available for others in many ways.
- Volunteer for any kind of quick help on the #volunteers channel.
- Offer your expertise on the #mentors channel.
- Join the #developers channel to ask or solve technical issues.
Read more (and translate the page) at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hack4OpenGLAM/How you can volunteer.
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Have you already joined the community platform? |
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The work on the community platform has started already and it will continue throughout the event. Each initiative gets a dedicated channel for working together.
Checklist
- You received a Google Forms reply email after you registered. Keep that safe, you can use it to edit your information on the Dashboard. Check your trash if you cannot find it.
- A second reply email with instructions for registering to the community platform on Mattermost was sent as well. Follow the instructions in the message. Check the trash if you cannot find it.
What to do at the community platform
- Head to the Town Square and say hello. You can find some help in the pinned message.
- Find you project's channel, introduce your ideas, add images and links. This is the space that you can use for working with your project. You can start a Jitsi call on the channel at any time. See the example channel for ideas.
- Feel free to pitch your project in the Town Square channel and invite people to join your channel.
- Join other projects as well! There are channels for all panels, volunteers, mentors, developers.
- Use hashtags for important topics. Clicking on the hashtag finds all messaged tagged with it.
- You can download the desktop app as well as an app for your mobile for Mattermost. Recommended!
I need help!
- You can go to the Help channel and write about your problem. Volunteers will help you solve the problem.
- You can ping @avoinglam or any team member in any message on the community platform.
- You can mail us at avoinglam@okf.fi.
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Previous newsletters |
Read the previous newsletters online
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July 6 |
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#1 Let Hack4OpenGLAM begin!
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Knowledge Equity. How to participate. Weekly meetups. What can you work on? Opportunities
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August 7 |
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#2 What's up at Hack4OpenGLAM
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New logo! The Dashboard is published! Introducing projects: Transcribing Oral Knowledge, Creating Inclusive and Representative Wikipedia Articles for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, Analysis of Berlin museum data. Meet the facilitators & ambassadors
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August 25 |
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#3 One month to go!
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Hack4OpenGLAM in events, introducing projects: Images of Government: Representation and Bias in Search Results, Challenges of applying AI in GLAM. Experience of SGoaB project, Climate change vs world heritage sites, Volunteer activities at Hack4OpenGLAM
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