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This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue I, January 2024

AvoinGLAM report

Events! Events!

GLAM+Commons+AI Sauna

AvoinGLAM invites the Wikimedia tech + GLAM community to Helsinki 6–7 May after the Wikimedia hackathon in Tallinn 3–5 May, 2024 to envision the relations between GLAM, the open ecosystem and AI together with major Finnish GLAM institutions, AI research projects and companies.

Monday 6 May

Inspire talks – In the morning, inspire talks kick off the event at the Reading Room of the National Archives of Finland.
Workshop + sauna + sea pool – The afternoon workshop at Allas Sea Pool at the harbor brings all the participants together to decide what are the issues we must work on. It is followed by sauna, pool and mingling.

Tuesday 7 May

Hands-on – The second day is the playground for GLAM + Commons + AI. The day is for testing, talking, learning, hacking, whichever is the best way for anyone to get a better understanding how AI, cultural heritage and the open ecosystem work together. Program for the day will be crafted during the spring in collaboration with the GLAMs, wikimedians, research projects and companies to find the common interests.

Tallinn is only a couple of hours boat trip away from Helsinki. Plan your trip via Helsinki and join the event. We do not have scholarships to join this event only. Neither can we cover the cost of accommodation or food. The event will be free of charge.

Get inspired by checking out the moodboard and the project page! Follow the page to see how the program develops.

Media Art History

Media Art History in Finland is a wikiproject by AvoinGLAM to gather and display the history of media art from Finland. It is created in the memory of Minna Tarkka, Finnish curator, educator, artist and activist who passed away in 2023.

Database

MEHI – Media Art History in Finland project was a tour-de-force of Finnish arts organizations. As part of a wide array of activities, the project produced a database of artists and media artworks. We imported the data to Wikidata and created pages on Meta-wiki to display the information. Now that the project period is over, it is still possible to add more information and images directly to Wikidata. The project pages in the Finnish Wikipedia additionally host an editable and linked timeline of media art and a bibliography.

Looking back: Media Art History in the Future Seminar 2024

The closing seminar of the MEHI project was held at MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Center, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki Fri 26 January. We presented the pages that display the materials in the Wikimedia projects and discussed the role of open licensing and sharing with artists and actors in the arts organizations. Our hope is to encourage the artists to share at least descriptive images of their works openly as well as to build common understanding about open licensing.

Looking forward: Seminar and collaboration

AvoinGLAM prepares to organize an event bringing together other initiatives recording and archiving media art history. The preliminary date is around September/October. If you work in this area, please get in touch with us!

Read the Open Culture materials in the MEHI project (in Finnish).

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