Hello everyone,
This email is to let everyone know that the recording for November call is
available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnfLCtBP-dM
In this call, Andrea Wallace did a very deep dive into the upcoming
Declaration on Open Access to Cultural Heritage, and we also used some of
the time to answer some of the questions that folks brought up and that
were also brought up in other conferences, such as Europeana and MCN.
Our next call will be on December 10th. The link to the agenda is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-ooRioOKMgLJo5s9IB-kDmmq5ZXUsiAPGRBzMM…
and
this is the link to join the call directly:
https://app.hopin.com/events/open-glam-monthly-call-698adfbd-cb30-470d-b705…
In this opportunity, we will be discussing "workplans for 2021". Several of
us will be sharing what our plans for 2021 look like. This will be an open
stage activity, so anyone who feels like sharing can come and see where
communities could work together and be stronger together!
cheers,
scann
Hello everyone!
Just a reminder that we will have our Monthly Call this Thursday, November
19th, at 2 PM UTC. Please check your timezone.
We'll be having it through Hopin. This is the link to register for the
event: https://hopin.to/events/open-glam-monthly-call and this is the link
for entering directly to the room:
https://app.hopin.com/events/open-glam-monthly-call/sessions/73978a20-da49-…
We will be discussing the research paper for the Declaration on Open Access
to Cultural Heritage, so we will only be having Dr. Andrea Wallace as the
main speaker and then the idea is that the floor will be open for questions
and discussions. We will also talk a bit about the feedback so far and try
to answer some of the questions that have been brought up in different
presentations.
As usual, more info on the agenda here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-ooRioOKMgLJo5s9IB-kDmmq5ZXUsiAPGRBzMM…
For the call happening in December we're thinking of having an open
conversation about Copyright & Open GLAM plans for 2021. So if you belong
to an organization that is in the middle of their work plan for 2021 and
want to incorporate something around Open GLAM & share it with the
community, just send me a message.
Have a nice day everyone!
Hello everyone,
I am glad to share the links of a short study just published on CIS site
and Wikimedia sites. The study is on mapping the digital transition in
selected Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) institutions in
Maharashtra, India, and exploring possibilities and challenges for
collaborations with Wikimedia projects. I am thankful to Marathi
Wikimedians participated in the research - Aaryaa Joshi, Dnyanada
Gadre-Phadke and Kalyani Kotkar. I am also grateful to Sneha for editorial
oversight and Sumandro Chattapadhyay for external review. This is part of
a series of short-term studies undertaken by the CIS-A2K team in 2019–2020.
CIS blog - https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mapping-glam-in-maharashtra
Meta -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mapping_GLAM_in_Maharashtra,_India
Stay safe,
regards,
Subodh Kulkarni
Program Officer
Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge Programme
Hello everyone,
MozFest is a unique hybrid: part art, tech and society convening, part
maker festival, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global
movements fighting for a more humane digital world.
That’s why I’m excited to invite you
<https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/>and your community
to participate in the first-ever virtual MozFest!
Submit A Session Idea for MozFest This Year
<https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/>
We’re excited to use the programming that we’ve honed over a decade of
festivals – participant-led sessions, immersive art exhibits, space for
spontaneous conversations, inspiring Dialogues & Debates – to address
current and global crises. Through our Call for Session Proposals (where
you're invited to propose an interactive workshop to host at the festival),
we’ll seek solutions together, through the lens of trustworthy artificial
intelligence.
Anyone can submit a session – you don’t need any particular expertise, just
a great project or idea and the desire to collaborate and learn from
festival participants. Since it’s online this year, we’re especially eager
to see session proposals from those that haven’t been able to attend in
year’s past due to travel restrictions.
Also please check out Global Culture and Heritage space
<https://www.mozillafestival.org/en/uniquely-mozfest/spaces/#global-culture-…>,
a space to express and share about the cultures we carry with us and about
its impact on the access to the internet.
Join us on slack for further conversations: #global-culture-and-heritage
<https://join.slack.com/share/zt-io217uvm-eosR0bMxyHR9WhZu9lkS5g>
If you or someone you know from the Wikimedia community is interested in
leading a session at MozFest this year, you can submit your session idea
here <https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/>! The
deadline is November 23.
Stay safe and warm regards,
Bhuvana Meenakshi
Mozilla Festival 2021 Space Wrangler - Global Culture and Heritage
Mozilla Pulse - https://www.mozillapulse.org/profile/1911
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to the international conference **Collect & Connect: Archives and Collections in a Digital Age**. The conference will be held online from 23 to 24 November 2020. The full program can be found here: http://program.makingsenseproject.org. Owing to an additional grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), registering for and participating in the conference is without cost, however the virtual seats we can offer are limited. See for detailed registration instructions here: http://register.makingsenseproject.org
Keynote lectures:
Sharon Leon, Michigan State University: From Event to Data Set: Perspective, Structure, and the Problem of Representation in Data-Driven Digital History
Franco Niccolucci, PIN-University of Florence: The data challenge for cultural and natural heritage
Lambert Schomaker, University of Groningen: From pixels to knowledge using AI: Where do the humans fit in?
Round table:
Semantics and Beyond: Modeling and enriching longue-durée biocultural data for answering interdisciplinary and epistemic research questions
Panel convenor: Martha Fleming (Natural History Museum of Denmark)
Panel chairs: Dominik Hünniger (Hamburg University) and Katy Wolstencroft (Leiden University)
Panelists: Sally Chambers (Ghent University), Isabelle Charmantier (Linnean Society), Tahani Nadim (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin & Humboldt-University), Nicky Nicolson (Royal Botanical Gardens Kew), Neil Safier (John Carter Brown Library & Brown University)
The full program, including all paper presentations and Demolab presentations can be found here: http://program.makingsenseproject.org
Scope of the conference:
In recent years, libraries, archives and museums have spent major efforts on annotating and enriching their digitized archives and collections with contextual information, in order to make them retrievable and interlinked in novel ways. Often institutions aim to enhance their reach and relevance for broader user groups. A major challenge in the field is the heterogeneous character of many of such digitized collections. Many handwritten archives and collections of physical objects in the realms of natural history, archaeology, history, and art history entail combinations of textual and visual elements whose interpretation requires a range of different expertise and computational technologies. This conference therefore welcomes papers that present, discuss, and reflect upon the technical, social, and institutional challenges digital heritage professionals and researchers encounter when enriching heterogeneous digitized collections with context.
We look forward to welcoming you on 23th of November!
Kind regards,
Andreas Weber
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Dr. Andreas Weber, University of Twente | https://www.utwente.nl/en/bms/steps/staff/weber/
Assistant professor | Research group: Science, Technology and Policy Studies (STePS)
PhD training coordinator | Graduate Research School of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture (WTMC<https://www.wtmc.eu/>)
International Conference: Collect&Connect: Archives and Collections in a Digital Age - program<https://sites.google.com/naturalis.nl/makingsenseproject/conference/program>!
ICAART Special session on AI & Digital Cultural Heritage (ARTIDIGH 2021) - submit a paper<http://www.icaart.org/ARTIDIGH.aspx>!
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Semantic web approaches to interlinking digitized historical archives and collections
* Text and image interpretation in digital collections
* Multimodal collection interpretation and access
* Handwriting recognition and heterogeneous digital collections
* Machine learning and digital collections
* Bias and digital heritage
* Computer vision and digital collections
* Digital collections' access and inclusivity
* Sharing and visualization of heterogeneous historical archives and collections
* Citizen science (including crowdsourcing) and digital archives and collections
* Challenges of enriching digitized handwritten archive material
* Digital capture and annotation of heterogeneous collections and artefacts
* Dealing with uncertainty, quality issues, data bias and collection gaps
* Geographical and spatial enrichment of collections
* Application of common vocabularies and data reconciliation
If you are not sure whether you research fits with ** Collect & Connect ** or if you have any other question relate to the event, please do not hesitate to contact the conference chairs:
1. Andreas Weber (a.weber(a)utwente.nl<mailto:a.weber@utwente.nl>)
1. Eulàlia Gassó Miracle (eulalia.gassomiracle(a)naturalis.nl<mailto:eulalia.gassomiracle@naturalis.nl>)
2. Katy Wolstencroft (k.j.wolstencroft(a)liacs.leidenuniv.nl<mailto:k.j.wolstencroft@liacs.leidenuniv.nl>)
4. Maarten Heerlien (m.heerlien(a)rijksmuseum.nl<mailto:m.heerlien@rijksmuseum.nl>)