Apologies for the very late notice, but I thought this group may be interested in attending our event tomorrow! For those that cannot make it, we will also be publishing our report on this research.

Please join us for the upcoming Curationist Metadata Learning & Unlearning Summit! The session will take place on September 19th from 11 am to 12:30 pm ET. This online event will bring together metadata experts and enthusiasts to advance our vision of providing open access to cultural heritage through a social justice lens.

Last year’s summit https://www.curationist.org/editorial-features/article/metadata-learning-and-unlearning-summit-2023 sparked wide-ranging discussions on the colonial and imperial legacies in metadata and explored values and practices to address these issues. This year, we’re focusing on the integration of Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page—both as a source of controlled descriptive vocabularies and as a potential template schema for our metadata, which primarily comes from museums. We'll share our research into evaluating Wikidata and Wikibase as tools to improve Curationist's cultural heritage data in front of a panel of Wiki experts. We will be learning in public! Please join us.

Our panel of experts includes:

Anni Saisto, Pori Museum

Ben Vershbow, Wikimedia Foundation

Christos Varvantakis, Wikimedia Deutschland

Evelin Heidel, Curationist board member

Hanno Lans, CopyClear

Sandra Fauconnier, GLAM-Wiki Specialist

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_syUbRUdOQjW11CFrMXg3Vw#/registra...

Hope to see you there! Jessica

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*JESSICA GENGLER*

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