What does GLAM stand for? Why, Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums of course! On Friday, April 26, 2013, 8:00 am to Noon, take the workshop and learn how you can get GLAMorous!
Did you know that Wikipedia is the 5th most popular website in the world? Did you also know that there are detailed Wikipedia entries for every episode of the television
Seinfeld episode, but art history topics are largely underrepresented?
Learn more about how you and your institution can contribute to Wikipedia to increase exposure of art historical information and learn how to become involved in the
GLAM-Wiki Initiative.
The Art of GLAM-Wiki: The Basics of Sharing Cultural Knowledge with the World on Wikipedia
This workshop will teach you how to engage with Wikipedia and the Wikipedia community. You will learn the basics of Wikipedia's policies and procedures, basic editing skills to
get you started, and qualify you for the unique opportunity to share your institution’s cultural heritage holdings with a large and diverse audience of readers and researchers. This workshop aims to build attendee confidence in working
with Wikipedia and the importance of sharing data through it - including curatorial data, metadata, and media.
We are very excited that two experienced GLAM Wikipedians are traveling to Pasadena to lead this workshop!
Sarah Stierch, US OpenGLAM Coordinator for the Open Knowledge Foundation and Wikipedian in Residence
at the World Digital Library
Sara Snyder, Webmaster, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
In this short
video see Sarah and Sara talk about how the Archives of American Art is helping Wikipedia. They held an “Edit-a-thon” with the local Wikipedia community to write high-quality entries about the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art, often referred
to as the Armory show.
To learn more about the launch of US OpenGLAM read Sarah’s blog post
here.
Nancy Norris, Pasadena 2013 Publicity Chair
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