Sharing this for those of you who might be interested:
The Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> is looking for
a part-time temporary contractor to work remotely for 20 hours a week from
August or September until June 2021. The contractor will support movement
allies, affiliates, and organizers interested in bringing high impact
collections to Wikimedia projects. The hourly rate is up to $55 (USD).
We’d like you to do these things:
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Mentor a cohort of cultural institutions making large content
contributions to develop shared practices for Structured Data on Commons,
particularly for captions and copyright statements.
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Take part in monthly office hours for the wider Wikimedia-GLAM community.
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Analyze and document innovations and workflows, in order to inform and
inspire Wikimedia communities and staff.
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Actively monitor communications to support the Wikimedia-GLAM community
to stay in touch, network, document, and exchange practices.
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Facilitate information sharing and product alignment with volunteers
maintaining software for GLAM-Wiki projects, such as OpenRefine, pywikibot,
and Pattypan.
We’re looking for someone with these skills:
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A practical understanding of using linked open data and broad open
platforms for sharing collections, including active use of Wikidata and/or
Wikimedia Commons.
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Comfortable wrangling data with some experience scripting and using
command line tools.
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A good track record of promoting digital skills development or shared
practices through social media, written case studies, conference
presentations, and/or workshop facilitation.
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Comfort working with product teams and supporting products in an open,
networked ecosystem, through documentation and community consultation.
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Experience working with a distributed and remote team with people of
diverse skill sets and backgrounds.
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Strong written and spoken English.
And it would be even more awesome if you have:
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Proficiency in languages other than English.
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An existing network of collaborators and contacts in international open
knowledge, cultural heritage communities, or in the Wikimedia community.
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Experience working with communities that are not based in Europe or
North America.
Please send a cover letter and CV or LinkedIn profile to glam(a)wikimedia.org
by Friday 7 August.
2nd Call for Papers, apologies for cross-posting
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SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS &
APPLICATIONS
Part of the 14th International Conference on
Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2020)
<http://www.mtsr-conf.org/home>
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Paper Submission Deadline: 2nd August, 2020
Virtual Conference on 30th November - 4th December 2020
http://www.ionio.gr/labs/dbis/mtsr2020/
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The 14th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR
2020 <http://www.mtsr-conf.org/home>), as well as the
SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATION
<http://www.ionio.gr/labs/dbis/mtsr2020/>S, due to the
COVID-19 pandemic will take place virtually on 30th November - 4th December
2020.
*** Submission deadline: August 2nd, 2020 ***
Proceedings will be published in Springer CCIS series. CCIS is
abstracted/indexed in Scopus, SCImago,
EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, DBLP, Google Scholar. CCIS volumes are
also submitted for the
inclusion in ISI Proceedings.
AIM AND SCOPE
Cultural Heritage collections are essential knowledge infrastructures that
provide a solid
representation of the historical background of human communities. These
knowledge infrastructures
are constructed from and integrate cultural information derived from
diverse memory institutions,
mainly libraries, archives and museums. Each individual community has spent
a lot of effort
in order to develop, support and promote its own systems, tools and
metadata for the management
of cultural information, mainly related to its particular resources and
use.
In this framework, the management of the cultural information has to deal
with challenges related to
(i) metadata modeling, specification, standardization, extraction,
(semantic) enrichment, mapping,
integration, effective use, and evaluation, (ii) knowledge representation
as conceptualization to
provide the context for unambiguously interpreting metadata, and (iii)
information integration from
different contexts for the provision of integrated access, reuse and
advanced services to users.
At the same time, there are also inter-domain efforts targeted to
semantically align data (research
data, educational data, public sector information etc.) to cultural
information. New challenges are
also emerged from the need to incorporate cultural information into the new
publication paradigms,
where a variety of resources (data, metadata, processes, results, etc) are
linked and integrated,
providing better shareability and reusability. Currently, Linked (Open)
Data, as part of the
Semantic Web Technology, is having a major role in modernizing cultural
heritage collections.
Providing to users the possibility to re-use and integrate data into their
own systems is currently
more than a need, given that transparency and access to information is a
prerequisite. A critical
factor to the effectiveness of many aspects of all the above efforts is the
quality of metadata,
as interpreted by its context and use and evaluated by the proper measures
and methods. Many
institutions and aggregate infrastructures are dealing with the poor
quality of metadata that
inevitably results in poor integration, search and reuse, while their
enrichment, in terms of
contextualization, co-referencing, alignment, etc, is really challenging.
The aim of this Special Track is to maintain a dialogue where researchers
and practitioners working
on all the aspects of the cultural information will come together and
exchange ideas about open issues
at all stages of the cultural heritage information life cycle. The track
also welcomes works related to
semantics and applications for new approaches to cultural information
publication and sharing, as well
as to interlinking to other datasets published in the Semantic Web universe.
TOPICS
The papers in this special track should be original and of high quality,
addressing issues in areas
such as:
* Cultural Heritage metadata models, standards, ontologies, knowledge
organization and representation systems
* Cultural Heritage information integration, interoperability and mappings
* Automated extraction of metadata, entities, and patterns from Cultural
Heritage resources
* Metadata manual or automated (Semantic) enrichment and search
* Metadata quality metrics, tools and services
* Linked Open Data approaches in the Cultural Heritage domain
* Publication, linking and citation of Cultural Heritage information and
resources
* Large volume content management
* 3D models-indexing, storage and retrieval approaches
* Infrastructures for sharing content
* Digital Curation workflows and models
* Provenance and preservation metadata for Cultural Heritage digital
resources
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages).
Submitted papers have to
follow the LNCS proceedings formatting style and guidelines
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>
.
Submissions should be original and not previously submitted, published and
under review to other
Conferences or Journals.The submitted papers will undergo the same peer
review as the submissions
for MTSR 2020 and accepted contributions will be published in the MTSR 2020
proceedings (Springer CCIS series <https://www.springer.com/series/7899>).
Authors of accepted papers will be asked to register to the Conference and
present their work.
Selected papers might be considered for a revised and extended version to
be published in a range of
international journals, including the International Journal of Metadata,
Semantics and Ontologies
<https://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijmso>
(Inderscience), and Data Technologies and Applications
<https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/dta> (previously published
as Program, Emerald).
More information on submission can be found at the MTSR 2020 call for
papers web page.
IMPORTANT DATES
August 2nd, 2020: Submission deadline
September 6th, 2020: Notification of decision (Acceptance/Rejection)
September 20th, 2020: Camera-ready papers due
November 30th - December 4th 2020: the Virtual MTSR 2020 Conference will
take place
SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS
* Michalis Sfakakis, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian
University, Corfu, Greece (sfakakis(a)ionio.gr)
* Lina Bountouri, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian
University, Corfu, Greece and
EU Publications Office - European Commission, Luxembourg (
boudouri(a)ionio.gr, linabountouri(a)gmail.com)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Trond Aalberg, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
- Enrico Fransesconi, EU Publications Office, Luxembourg, and Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche, Firenze, Italy
- Manolis Gergatsoulis, Ionian University, Greece
- Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Sarantos Kapidakis, University of West Attica, Greece
- Christos Papatheodorou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
and Digital Curation Unit, IMIS, Athena RC, Greece
- Chrisa Tsinaraki, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Italy
- Andreas Vlachidis, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science,
University of South Wales, UK
- Maja Žumer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the international conference ** Collect & Connect: Archives and Collections in a Digital Age **. The deadline for paper submissions is 11 September 2020. The conference will be held online on 23 to 24 November 2020. Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden (the Netherlands) from 23 to 24 November 2020 (* see also COVID 19 note below).
The aims of this conference which officially concludes the NWO/Brill Creative Industries Project Making Sense of Illustrated Handwritten Archives (2016-2020) are twofold. First, to present results of finished and original research in the field of digitized archives and natural and cultural heritage collections. Second, to promote exchange and discussion between researchers and heritage professionals in the field of digital natural and cultural heritage. Papers can be submitted as regular papers (=10-12 pages) and short papers (=5-9 pages) through EASYCHAIR. More information about the conference and the link to the submission system can be found here: http://cfp.makingsenseproject.org
All positively reviewed papers shall be submitted as proceedings volume to CEUR-WS.org<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fceur-ws.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQ…> for online publication. Six to eight papers presented at the conference are expected to be selected for publication in the Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH).
Scope of the special session:
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.
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>)
Kind regards,
Andreas Weber
(*) COVID-19 NOTE: Due to current COVID-19 regulations we do not yet know in what form the conference will take place. For now, we aim at a hybrid conference which will allow a small number of participants from nearby to come to Naturalis. All other participants (including presenting authors from abroad) who cannot come to Naturalis, will get in any event the opportunity to contribute to the conference digitally.
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Dr. Andreas Weber, University of Twente
Assistant professor | Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies (STePS)
https://www.utwente.nl/en/bms/steps/staff/weber/
International Conference: Collect&Connect: Archives and Collections in a Digital Age - submit a paper<http://cfp.makingsenseproject.org/>!
ICAART Special session on AI & Digital Cultural Heritage (ARTIDIGH 2021) - submit a paper<http://www.icaart.org/ARTIDIGH.aspx>!
Most recent journal paper: Collecting Colonial Nature (BMGN, 2019, 134) - PDF<https://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/articles/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10741/>
Most recent book: Locations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts (Brill, 2019) - TOC<https://brill.com/view/title/24990?lang=en>
Hello everyone,
There's a lot happening in the background right now, so we decided with
Andrea and others to cancel tomorrow's call since we don't have a lot to
share right now.
I do have some updates that I want to share with everyone and invite you to
take a closer look at:
*Funds being provided by Creative Commons for Open GLAM*
The *CC Open GLAM Platform* is offering funding for some activities! You
can read more about the activities that will be receiving funding here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/17-gOtMKtDCEUy-PuxsuZhZQTGzKHX94rmZTdibq…>.
We have two open calls:
- - For general projects and activities that align with the platform,
fill out the application form here: https://forms.gle/r38RUfKgkk8AAZP6A
<https://forms.gle/r38RUfKgkk8AAZP6A>before *August 3, 2020*
- - If you have a story to tell for the Medium Open GLAM and you are
part of an underrepresented community, fill out the open call here:
https://forms.gle/MMZak1Jn6xS9s6i77 -- we are granting 300USD to tell
your story!
For more information, check out our page
<https://network.creativecommons.org/we-want-to-hear-from-open-glam-in-under…>,
or drop us an email at info(a)openglam.org
*New logo for Open GLAM*
We are working on refreshing the website - more news coming soon. In the
meantime, check our new logo (also attached).
[image: image.png]
*The Passenger Pigeon Manifesto*
Adam Harangozó has been sharing this Manifesto that he wrote recently, and
he's looking for signatures:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1odIjnw3jbuTXYoOChroFIi0cEp4W3Hrdfu3xhY8…
Feel free to send him an email to adamhrngzo(a)gmail.com if you want to sign
the Manifesto.
We'll be back next month with more updates and with a clear agenda for our
next call in August.
Have a great week!
cheers,
scann