Welcome!

Hello from the programme committee ☺

1. Some very practical things

2. A bird’s-eye view of the conference

3. A journey to … ?

15wikiglam

Thank you !

Practical stuff

• Always wear your badge!

– Grey, yellow, red

• Meeting room on

Saturday

• Group photo

• Conference phone number

• Leave building before 6PM

• Guided tour (Sunday)

• Photo exhibition!

Imagine a world in which

every single human being

can freely share

in the sum of all knowledge.

That's our commitment.

Vision statement of the Wikimedia Foundation

We are doing the same thing

for the same reason,

for the same people,

in the same medium.

Let's do it together.

Liam Wyatt

Bird’s-eye view

Original themes: Discovery, Collaboration, Remix, Capability and Exposure

Outspoken topics

• New developments, incl. (Wiki)Data

• We are maturing...

– Measuring impact

– Scaling

– Looking at the future

https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015/Challenge

prize ! →

Consider donating media related to the Global South

2020...

We tend to overestimate the effect

of a technology in the short run

and underestimate the effect

in the long run.

Roy Amara (paraphrased by Cringley)

don’t re-invent the wheel

re-use existing tools

mobile...first

...only

ubiquitous accesscheaper tools for (some) digitisation

and content creation

geolocation

localised

search results

born digital objects and information

metadata

hosting

access

3D and 4D immersive experiences

motion capturing to create a heritage archive

from traditional media

to online, real-time sources

Internet of Things + Big Data

digital scholarship

augmented reality, augmented intelligence

traditional knowledge

adoption of

free licenses

by today’s creators

the 20th-Century ‘copyright gap’

Have a great conference!

Practical Electrics Mar 1924 Cover. Published by Experimenter Publishing Company Inc. Hugo

Gernsback, President; Sidney Gernsback, Treasure; R. W. DeMott, Secretary. [Public domain], via

Wikimedia Commons

Government Press Office (GPO) - Bird's-Eye View of the Temple Mount. By

http://www.flickr.com/people/69061470@N05 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Flag-map of the world. By Transparent 6lue [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Jane in stroopwafel t-shirt. Own work, CC-BY, Sandra Fauconnier

La Sortie de l'opéra en l'an 2000 (ca. 1902), Albert Robida [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Cycling in Amsterdam, By Alfredo Borba (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Hauptgraben, Tullnerfeld, by Herzi Pinki (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Garmin III Plus, by Florian Fuchs [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Asus CD-ROM drive, by Asim18 [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Tape library, CERN, Geneva 2 by Cory Doctorow / CC BY-SA

Internet of Things, by Wilgengebroed on Flickr [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via

Wikimedia Commons

Instagram and other social media apps, by Jason Howie, Flickr, CC BY

DARPA Big Data, by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)) [Public domain], via

Wikimedia Commons

Market Pharmacy Tana, By Marco Schmidt [1] (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Chart of printed books at Amazon Warehouse, research by Paul Heald.

Logos Gent, by Michiel Hendryckx (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Shi DeRu (Shawn Xiangyang Liu) and Shi DeYang (Shi WanFeng), by Shi DeRu, CC BY-SA 3.0, via

en.wikipedia.org