Dear GLAM Community,
Happy 2026!
We're excited to share that our GLAM Community Calls will be happening on
the fourth Tuesday of each month throughout 2026. Mark your calendars for
this month's call on January 27 at 13:30 UTC – you can register now on the
event page.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_GLAM_calls
The calls will continue alternating between 8:00 UTC and 13:30 UTC to
accommodate community members across different time zones, with ongoing
support from the Content Partnerships Hub and the Content Enablement Team
at the Wikimedia Foundation.
We want to hear from you!
We're inviting everyone in the Global GLAM Community to submit your topic
requests and proposals.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeX0hCAnZzbUdTLY2ncYBuFj0sn7aTw8Jf…
We're building our upcoming agendas around the five strategic pillars that
were developed at GLAM Wiki last year, which form the foundation for GLAM
activities in 2026 and beyond. By centering these pillars in our calls, we
hope to help affiliates and contributors prioritize these themes in their
own work and collaborate across time zones, countries, and languages to
advance GLAM Wiki activities together.
We are also welcoming new hosts for the calls! If you are interested in
getting involved as an organizer please use the form above as well. Looking
forward to seeing you at the call!
All the best,
GLAM Community Call Organizers
Hello, everyone –
We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1765299600>). If you were unable to attend the initial orientation & overview session, you are encouraged to view the recording<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oCMv62hz6MiNmQqKUb-P4mS65be-ffxg?us…> prior to attending a subsequent session.
WikiProject Personal Pronouns was initiated with the goals of establishing and implementing ethical and logical best practices and data modeling for personal pronouns sets to Wikidata items representing human beings and fictional characters. As of September 2025, a new data model and set of best practices have been established as a policy through a successful Request for Comment. These sessions are the project's first steps toward implementation, and will perform data cleanup on just under 7,000 existing statements using P6553 (personal pronoun).
This working session will serve as the final series session. We are looking forward to collaborating with LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group members to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata by remediating legacy statements together. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. If you missed the first session, we recommend you view the recording prior to attending a subsequent session.
Call Details: Date and Time: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1765299600>)
Zoom link to join meeting: https://washington.zoom.us/j/95860999681?pwd=JU44ny53YfibMPFklzabB300E7zbkb…
Meeting ID: 958 6099 9681
Passcode: 848677
Series event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the LD4 Community and investigates how libraries can contribute to and better integrate library metadata with Wikidata to improve access to library resources on the web. The Affinity Group calls provide an informal space to share information and learn more about Wikidata.
Communication: Ld4-wikidata Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata
Wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/ld4/shared_invite/zt-39rjo8h39-W3l8xtZ~VtwM2DObLkf…
Website: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
On behalf of the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group co-facilitators,
Hilary Thorsen
Resource Sharing Librarian
Stanford Libraries
thorsenh(a)stanford.edu
650-285-9429
Hello, everyone –
We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, November 25, 2025 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1764090000>). If you were unable to attend the initial orientation & overview session, you are encouraged to view the recording<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oCMv62hz6MiNmQqKUb-P4mS65be-ffxg?us…> prior to attending a subsequent session. Remaining sessions will be held on October 14, November 25, and December 9, 2025 at our regular time of 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET, and will not be recorded.
WikiProject Personal Pronouns was initiated with the goals of establishing and implementing ethical and logical best practices and data modeling for personal pronouns sets to Wikidata items representing human beings and fictional characters. As of September 2025, a new data model and set of best practices have been established as a policy through a successful Request for Comment. These sessions are the project's first steps toward implementation, and will perform data cleanup on just under 7,000 existing statements using P6553 (personal pronoun).
This working session will serve as the second of three such sessions. We are looking forward to collaborating with LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group members to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata by remediating legacy statements together. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. If you missed the first session, we recommend you view the recording prior to attending a subsequent session.
Call Details: Date and Time: Tuesday, November 25, 2025 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1764090000>)
Zoom link to join meeting: https://washington.zoom.us/j/95860999681?pwd=JU44ny53YfibMPFklzabB300E7zbkb…
Meeting ID: 958 6099 9681
Passcode: 848677
Series event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the LD4 Community and investigates how libraries can contribute to and better integrate library metadata with Wikidata to improve access to library resources on the web. The Affinity Group calls provide an informal space to share information and learn more about Wikidata.
Communication: Ld4-wikidata Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata
Wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/ld4/shared_invite/zt-39rjo8h39-W3l8xtZ~VtwM2DObLkf…
Website: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
On behalf of the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group co-facilitators,
Hilary Thorsen
Resource Sharing Librarian
Stanford Libraries
thorsenh(a)stanford.edu
650-285-9429
I'm forwarding the registration link
<https://kbdk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rggZq6ziQIyYI7_duR6KrQ/> for this
webinar: *'GLAM Data: Access, Refining, Analysis and Visualization'*,
hosted by the Royal National Library of Denmark
<https://kbdk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rggZq6ziQIyYI7_duR6KrQ/>, more
details below :)
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From: Gustavo Candela <gustavo.candelar(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Subject: [collectionsasdata] GLAM Labs webinar
To: <collectionsasdata(a)googlegroups.com>
Dear Collections as Data colleagues,
A quick reminder about our next FREE GLAM Labs webinar which takes place
this Thursday, details below:
Title: 'GLAM Data: Access, Refining, Analysis and Visualization'
Date: 0900-1000 ET | 1500-1600 CET - Thursday 6 November, 2025
Registration link for the webinar*:
https://kbdk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rggZq6ziQIyYI7_duR6KrQ/
*The webinar is kindly hosted by the Royal National Library of Denmark (
https://www.kb.dk/) and organised by Kat Hoffman Gasser (khg).
Once you have registered you should receive an email from Kat(khg)
confirming your registration, a zoom link for the webinar and how to add
the webinar to your online calendar.
The agenda for the webinar will include 3 presentations and an opportunity
for questions:
*Agenda*
i. Introduction (10 mins)
ii. Presentations (45 mins)
1 - DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALISATION: ‘I get by with a little help from AI’
by Filipe Bento, Head of Digital Resources and User Support, Library,
Document Management and Museology Services of the Universidade de Aveiro
(UAveiro) and UAveiro RDM Center' executive management
2 - FIXING THE FLAWS: RE-DOING OCR FOR OLD NEWSPAPERS
by Max Odsbjerg Pedersen, Special Consultant, Aarhus University
3 - BRIDGING AI AND LIBRARIES: REFINING & RELEASING LARGE SCALE LIBRARY
DATASETS
by Matteo Cargnelutti, Principal Engineer, Institutional Data Initiative at
the Harvard Law School Library and Catherine Brobston, Program Director,
Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library
iii. Final remarks (5 mins)
We really hope to see some of you online at the webinar!
On behalf of the GLAM Labs Community
Details of our previous GLAM Labs webinar:
AI-Powered Metadata, Hackathons, APIs & Notebooks, May 8, 2025 can be found
on:
Zenodo - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17250371
and YouTube -
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRpIW29NwYINQOqlpFJcff1QRyRzETIM7
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