AvoinGLAM
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AvoinGLAM is an Open Knowledge Finland working group promoting Open Access to cultural heritage. Our goal is to make GLAM activities more inclusive, diverse, and equitable by expanding the scope of modalities, topics, and practitioners of cultural heritage, and addressing questions of ethical sharing. With this in mind, we wish to interpret the acronym GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) as Global Languages, Art & Memory.
We promote creative collaborations and peer learning across the range of GLAM practitioners. We function at the intersection of Wikimedia, Creative Commons and Open Knowledge, advocating collaboration across organizational and domain boundaries.
AvoinGLAM has been established in 2012, and it has been supported by a Wikimedia Foundation Community Fund since 2022.
Highlights of 2024 activities
[edit]AI Sauna
- The strategic discussion about the role of GLAM contributions in Wikimedia projects and the technology that enables them. Let's have sauna and sort it out!
- What does AI mean for GLAMs? We are inviting Finnish GLAMs, AI research projects and companies to learn & experiment together with the international Open Culture community.
Media Art History on Wikimedia projects
Wikidocumentaries for Wikimedia projects
Visualizing Wikidata with Design at Aalto
Past highlights
[edit]Previous years
[edit]Join our global community
Starting in 2024, AvoinGLAM invites members to our global community. The community will be involved in discussing the activities of the group. To be eligible for running for candidacy in the Steering group of AvoinGLAM or vote for the candidates, an individual must be a member of Open Knowledge Finland.
Share your stories about working with us
We invite you to share your experiences of working with us, or thoughts about how we could work together in the future. We appreciate expressions of support for our activities, even if we had not worked together before.
Governance, program and funding
[edit]AvoinGLAM is an unincorporated group working with Open Knowledge Finland as the fiscal sponsor.
AvoinGLAM meetings are open for anyone to attend. There is no formal membership. We invite anyone to join Open Knowledge Finland as member.
Team
[edit]Steering group 2024
[edit]The core group was elected on 13 December in the annual meeting of AvoinGLAM.
- Tove Ørsted
- Tuomas Nolvi
- Kimberli Mäkäräinen
- Julia Brungs (in private capacity)
- Ranjit Menon
- Sophea Lerner
Staff & contractors
[edit]- Susanna Ånäs (Susannaanas) 🦜, coordinator
- Andrew Paterson (6–10/24), coordinator of Archiving Media Art
Fiscal sponsor Open Knowledge Finland
[edit]- Susanna Ånäs, Interim ED
- Mehalet Yared, chair of the board
AvoinGLAM representative in OKFI Board
[edit]- Andrew Paterson (until 6/24)