This will be a case study for the Open GLAM project we did in India in partnership with Government Libraries and museums and collaboration with Wikimedia Community to curate knowledge sources to be made available in Commons under free licenses. This case study will share the strategy on how we can develop Open GLAM partnerships with cultural institutions and build an open community that works on curating the open source knowledge sources. The presentation will have the case study with references from the Open GLAM project we have doing in India along with the conceptualization of how this project can be iterated and adapted. Most of all, the session covers how we integrated the data sets from our content partnerships with different knowledge sharing techniques and platforms in open access, including Wikidata, Punjabi Wikisource and Wikimedia Commons.
This session is about a case study and a workshop of how indigenous knowledge sources of marginalized communities can be made available on the internet with free commons licenses using different means, including, digitization of public libraries and museums, different challenges in copyrights from the colonized India, oral knowledge sources, and integration of datasets on open source platforms, such as, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. The Open community we worked with for this project, involved GLAM staff from different government cultural institutions, artist community, Wikimedia Community from Punjabi speaking groups to create and collaborate to create and curate on the intangible cultural heritage project.
Participants will be able to learn how to:
Develop OPEN GLAM partnerships
Advocate for Open Access collaborations with museums, artists, authors
Grow an open community in a region
How to run Open GLAM and Commons campaigns
Research on copyrights for works from different countries
We will have a hands-on discussion session at the end of the presentation to allow the participants to ask questions and will provide them with the presentation link and contact information in case they like to reach us with their questions anytime after the session.
We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after Mozfest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:The session is a workshop cum presentation with a case study as narrative on how non-profit organizations or open movement advocates can develop, iterate and adapt partnerships with GLAM institutions for content donation, digitization, design technology projects with community to re-use the public domain works, organize open internet campaigns for crowdsourcing the cultural knowledge.
Our workshop would include strategy about how to design cultural resources integration campaigns online, what are the potential arguments you can provide to develop Open GLAM partnerships. How you can work with the community of Open Movement.
The session will be an interactive one, where I will be asking audience questions of what kind of technology projects and GLAM partnerships they want to work on and what is the narrative they wish to build with their proposals. If time allows, there can be an activity session after the workshop.
The Open Heritage Foundation is a nonprofit organization that seeks to preserve intangible cultural heritage with documentation of underrepresented resources.