Presentation given at "The Worlds of Wikimedia: communicating and collaborating across languages and cultures" conference. June 2019.

1. Trends in cultural
partnerships: GLAM-Wiki at 10
Liam Wyatt / @Wittylama
University of Sydney
June 2019

2. Recommended reading
Vol. 9, No. 3 (2018). Wikipedia, Libraries and Archives. Eds.
Luigi Catalani & Pierluigi Feliciati
• “Stepping Beyond Libraries: The Changing Orientation in
Global GLAM-Wiki” by Stinson, Fauconnier, Wyatt
https://www.jlis.it/article/view/12480
https://www.arl.org/resources/arl-whitepaper-on-wikidata/
• “ARL Whitepaper on Wikidata
opportunities & recommendations”
18 April, 2019. Allison-Cassin et al.

3. Background: Why?
• Often a start local community external collaborations.
Pride, legitimacy, focus.
• “We’re doing the same thing, for the same reason, for
the same people, often in the same medium. Let’s do
it together.”
• Digital visitors are still visitors. The rights to access
culture is not only for those who can access in-
person.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GLAM_lightpainting.jpg

4. • http://yellowmilkmaidsyndrome.tumblr.com/
• http://pro.europeana.eu/files/Europeana_Professional/Publications/
Whitepaper_2-The_Yellow_Milkmaid.pdf
Digital visitors

5. Australian War Memorial, Canberra. 2009
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_Recommendations

6. Which led to…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Museum_Great_Court,_London,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg
And many many more…

7. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_GLAM-Wiki_Revolution.webm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlNT16gqHyo

8. GLAM-WIKI
CURRENT TRENDS
GLAM has matured in Western Europe/North America to the extent
that institutions themselves are increasing taking direct ownership.

9. Definitional changes
zoos
botanical gardens
sports
medicine
higher education
Our “pitch” has changed. Wikipedia ! Commons ! Wikidata
broadcasters
Corporate
archives
What about Wikisource? Wiktionary?
ethnographic
documentation
projects
Content liberation ! Cultural partnerships

10. Libraries
• WikiCite – Structured citation data!
• The Wikipedia Library
– Now with support from IFLA
• 1Lib1Ref (‘citation hunt’; hashtags)
• Catalonia Library Network
• Reference libraries
• Wikidata + Wikibase

11. Advocacy & Legal
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
wiki/
Category:Images_subject_to_Reiss
_Engelhorn_Museum_lawsuit
• UK National Portrait Gallery
• Reiss
Engelhorn
• Prado
• Freedom of Panorama (not a problem in
Australia, but a major factor internationally)

12. SNAC: Social Networks &
Archival Context prototype
OCLC & VIAF + Wikimedia
http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/
about.html
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/
8962
Webinar video: http://www.oclc.org/
research/events/2014/01-09.html
Archives

13. Ethnographic
Carpathian project -
Wikimedia Polska
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:
%22A_Goral_Wedding%22_at_Dom_Ludowy_Theatre_-_bride_and_groom_dancing.jpg

14. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Filaret_Kolessa_phonograph_cylinder_collection
Digitisation

15. https://
commons.wikimedia.org
/wiki/
File:Wikidata_4th_birthd
ay_in_Berlin.jpg
http://openpreservation.org/blog/2016/09/30/wikidata-as-a-digital-
preservation-knowledgebase/
Wikidata as a digital preservation knowledgebase
The “spinal gazetteer”

16. OpenGLAM metatada
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings/Property_statistics
OpenGLAM Survey - McCarthy & Wallace

17. Peace, Love & Metadata
Liam Wyatt / @Wittylama
#GLAMWIKI