One of Catherine Stihler’s first key priorities as CEO of Creative Commons
is leading us to develop and articulate a new vision and strategy for the
organization as we embark upon CC’s third decade. A major part of that work
is hearing from you about your hopes and expectations for CC in the years
ahead.
As the co-leaders of this strategy development, we have put together a
structured process for gathering your initial input in the next three weeks.
Here are the key elements:
What and why? This document
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PLk11BEQMCttALMlgqNxPfyk8_VAQmbydyvFgaq…>
lays out the context and urgency for this work in order to give you more
background about the need for and purpose of this new strategy.
How and when? We are providing methods for private written feedback, group
discussions, and opportunities for one-on-one conversations. This process
and timeline
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G36kNyQELSPEQfK9OGsHOfcoEyA6lZXX5bcOo5Y…>
explains the details, including dates.
Please note that this only reflects the start of a longer process. However,
we hope as many of you as possible will give us the benefit of your
insights before we put pen to paper on a first draft of the strategy. If
any of the scheduled consultations do not work for you for any reason, we
are happy to schedule a time to speak separately.
All the best,
Sarah Pearson (sarah(a)creativecommons.org) & Brigitte Vézina (
brigitte(a)creativecommons.org)
Dear Open-GLAM community,
I hope this email finds you well and healthy.
My name is Mauricio Delfin (http://mauriciodelfin.pe/) and I am a cultural
manager and researcher from Peru. I am also the director of Solar (
http://solar.pe/), a non-profit organization that promotes open government
principles and practices in the cultural sectors of Latin America.
I have been a member of this list for quite some time, interested in
eventually activating an Open-GLAM chapter in Peru. While I have not
managed to do so yet, I am currently developing a report on open data use
in the cultural sectors of Peru, with the support of the Latin America Open
Data Initiative (ILDA) <https://idatosabiertos.org/una-nueva-generacion/>.
As part of this project, I want to map organizations and initiatives that
promote the use of open data in the cultural sectors of the region.
I was wondering if anyone in this list is aware of (1) an updated map or a
database of Open-GLAM chapters or networks in Latin America, or of
groups working with open data in the arts and cultural sectors, and/or (2)
research initiatives concerning this subject and region of the world.
While my work will not focus exclusively on Open-GLAM initiatives, I would
like to mention this community in my report, and hopefully reach out to
some of these projects in Latin America, as I try to learn about and
connect with other civic projects and non-state organizations working with
open data in the cultural sectors.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions, recommendations or resources you
may be able to share with me at this point.
Best,
Mauricio Delfin
Director, Asociación Civil Solar
http://mauriciodelfin.pe/https://twitter.com/maudelfin
Hello Open GLAM Community,
I am writing to invite you to the fourth Communia Salon this year, taking place on Thursday, the 17th of September, at 15.30-17.00. During the online event, organised in cooperation with the #NoWorries project, we want to discuss policies that concern digital cultural heritage.
Our meeting will take place right after the European Commission will close its consultation on opportunities offered by digital technologies for the culture heritage sector <https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/public-consultation-oppo…>. We also want to discuss the ongoing implementation of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive, and the rules that it will set for cultural heritage institutions.
In the consultations, the European Commission is referring to the “Recommendation on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation” <https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32011H0711>, from 2011. Almost a decade has passed since then, and large amounts of heritage have been digitised. The term “digitisation” has been replaced with the idea of digital transformation. At the same time, barriers and challenges to access and reuse still remain – heritage in digitised form is a potentially underused resource.
During the salon, we want to ask representatives of key stakeholders from the heritage sector: what are the effects of digital technologies on the cultural heritage sector, and how should we shape them with appropriate policies? With regard to copyright regulations, we want to discuss wheter the reform went far enough, and whether it struck the the right balance? We also want to consider whether any other policies are needed for Europe to fully benefit from digital heritage?
Join us for a debate moderated by Alek Tarkowski (Communia / Centrum Cyfrowe <http://centrumcyfrowe.pl/>), with the participation of Paul Keller (Communia / IViR <http://ivir.nl/>), Ariadna Matas (Europeana <http://europeana.eu/>), Hessel van Oorschot (Open Nederland <https://www.opennederland.nl/> / Tribe of Noise <https://www.tribeofnoise.com/>) and Brigitte Vézina (Creative Commons <http://creativecommons.org/>).
The Salon is open for everyone to attend and will be held on Zoom. Join us on Thursday, the 17th of September, at 1530 CET, by registering here <https://forms.gle/NuKxFn4vigkLKAsk9>. Registered participants will receive login information ahead of the event.
I hope that you will join us next Thursday for this policy debate.
Best,
Alek
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Prezes i Fundator | President and Co-Founder
Centrum Cyfrowe | centrumcyfrowe.pl
T: +48 889 660 444
@atarkowski
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Board of Directors Member, Creative Commons | creativecommons.org
Network Representative, Creative Commons Polska. | creativecommons.pl
Member, COMMUNIA | communia-association.org
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Hello everyone,
We'll be having our Open GLAM monthly call this Thursday Sept. 10 at 2 PM
UTC - 10 AM EST - 4 PM CEST (make sure to check your timezone!). This is
the link to join the meeting: https://meet.google.com/mpu-qbtz-ram
And as usual, the agenda is available here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-ooRioOKMgLJo5s9IB-kDmmq5ZXUsiAPGRBzMM…
For this round, we will have a first round of invitations to various
conferences and events that will be happening between October and November.
After that we'll have Ariadna Matas from Europeana talking about upcoming
changes in the policies of Europeana when it comes to user generated
content (you can read more here
<https://pro.europeana.eu/post/transcriptions-subtitles-and-enrichments-shar…>).
Europeana is currently seeking for feedback on this.
As our special guest we'll be having Rupika Sharma, from the Open Heritage
Foundation in India, who will be talking about some of the work she is
doing around Wiki Loves Folklore.
If you have something you'd like to share in the call, please let me know
and we can add it to the agenda!
The meeting will be recorded. You can access last month's meeting here
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTz1gR0vlH4>.
See you all on Thursday!
best,
scann
Hello Open GLAMmers!
I am glad to inform you that we have received advance notice that the
online culture hack Hack4OpenGLAM will be included in the virtual CC Summit
19–24 October.
This is a call for participation for all hackers and GLAMs, non-coders and
coders, designers and tinkerers, to join the event both as organisers and
participants.
I will be presenting the hackathon briefly in tomorrow's Open GLAM call. I
have prepared a few slides to explain, and you can find them attached to
this email.
Hope to see you tomorrow!
Best regards
Susanna Ånäs, Avoin GLAM, Finland
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1k2O6MwIL-Rgp
Sign-up form: https://forms.gle/QxuBf4WTwRyvvTiY9
Hi everyone,
I wanted to let you know that we'll be holding our Open GLAM Monthly Call
on Thursday, 10 AM EST - 4 PM CET. We'll be using this link to join:
https://meet.google.com/ygf-uyim-ekr
This time, we have prepared a more structured agenda that you can find here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-ooRioOKMgLJo5s9IB-kDmmq5ZXUsiAPGRBzMM…
We'll also be recording the meeting for future reference if people want to
have access to it.
See you on Thursday!
cheers,
scann
*** NEW DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS: 18 SEPTEMBER 2020 ***
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 new deadline for paper submissions is 18 September 2020 11 September 2020. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will be held online.
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 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.
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
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Dr. Andreas Weber, University of Twente | https://www.utwente.nl/en/bms/steps/staff/weber/
Assistant professor | Department of 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 - 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>
In case you haven't seen it already, the CAA 2021 call for participation for sessions soliciting contributors is NOW OPEN! Full CFP details can be found here<https://caa.confex.com/caa/2021/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html>; deadline to submit is September 16, 2020.
And, if you love copyright, and let's be honest...who on this list doesn't, then please consider submitting to the Committee on Intellectual Property's session:
Copyright in the Age of Remoteness<https://caa.confex.com/caa/2021/webprogrampreliminary/Session7523.html>
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Committee on Intellectual Property
Emily Lanza, U.S. Copyright Office and Anne M. Young, Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Email Address(s): emilyla8(a)gmail.com , ayoung(a)discovernewfields.org
The current copyright framework poses challenges for the creation and consumption of visual art and related scholarship, as the analog media of the past have been supplanted by a digital world. In the age of social distancing and remoteness, how will the copyright framework be challenged, both domestically and globally, with the new reliance on the digital?
Copyright will continue guiding the creation, maintenance, distribution, and consumption of visual art and scholarship both domestically and globally, but what are the copyright-related best practices to help ensure a smoother transition to meet increasing demand for digital access?
This panel seeks to address how the age of remoteness could (re)define the copyright best practices and informational resources for those navigating a world functioning online and digitally at an unprecedented magnitude. How does the age of remoteness alter our concept of fair use and open access in the arenas of performance, publishing, and online education, for example? We welcome papers across geographic contexts and from different perspectives, including that of artists, archivists, designers, technologists, lawyers, librarians, scholars, publishers, and museum professionals.
Anne M. Young
Director of Legal Affairs and Intellectual Property
NEWFIELDS | A PLACE FOR NATURE & THE ARTS
INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART | THE GARDEN | LILLY HOUSE | THE VIRGINIA B. FAIRBANKS ART & NATURE PARK | MILLER HOUSE & GARDEN
4000 MICHIGAN ROAD * INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46208
ayoung(a)DiscoverNewfields.org<mailto:ayoung@DiscoverNewfields.org>
www.DiscoverNewfields.org<http://www.discovernewfields.org/>
T 317-923-1331 x171
Pronouns: She, Her, Hers
3rd Call for Papers, apologies for cross-posting
DEADLINE EXTENSION!
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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)
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Paper Submission Deadline: 30th 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), as well as the
SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS &
APPLICATIONS, due to the
COVID-19 pandemic will take place virtually on 30th November - 4th December
2020.
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NEW Submission deadline: AUGUST 30th, 2020
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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.
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). 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
(Inderscience), and Data Technologies and Applications (previously
published as Program, Emerald).
More information on submission can be found at the MTSR 2020 call for
papers web page.
IMPORTANT DATES
August 30th, 2020: Submission deadline
September 25th, 2020: Notification of decision (Acceptance/Rejection)
October 7th, 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
- Emmanuelle Gaillard, Infeurope S.A., Luxembourg
- 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
- Sebastian Thelen, Infeurope S.A., Luxembourg
- 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
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.