GLAM-WIKI/Schedule
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Thursday 6 August 2009
08:00 Registration
08:30 Welcome: Liam Wyatt, GLAM-WIKI Convenor and Vice-President, Wikimedia Australia
08:50 Keynote: Jennifer Riggs, Chief Program Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation
- "Everything you wanted to know about Wikipedia but were too afraid to ask"
9:30 The Community: Q&A Panel with Wikimedians. Questions arising and introductions.
10:00 Morning tea
10:30 Themes - Best practices
Objective - Successful case studes of working with free-culture in GLAM organisations
- Education: Paula Bray, Image Services manager Powerhouse Museum
- Business: Mathias Schindler, Project Manager Wikimedia Deutschland
- Video presentations from international GLAM sector directors (it's a surprise...)
11:20 Theme - Law: Jessica Coates, Project Manager, Creative Commons Clinic at the CCi
- "Key terms and issues when GLAM meets WIKI: copyright & expiration, access right, contracts, commercial use and re-use."
Parallel session: Demo guided tour of Wikipedia (repeated later) Getting started demonstration, introduction to mechanics of navigation and editing.
12:00 Theme - Law (con't)
(Parallel sessions)
Objective - Presentation and moderated discussion to establish mutual understanding of issues and develop draft recommendations
- Delia Browne, National Copyright Director at the Ministerial Council for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs
- "Copying and Communicating in the Digital age" (session for those with more limited eposure to copyright law).
- Moderator TBC
- Graham Greenleaf, Unlocking IP Project @ CLPC & Co-Director AustLII
- "The Public Rights in Copyright" (session for copyright/access practitioners)
- Moderator TBC
13:00 Lunch including message from CustomWare.
14:00 Theme - Technical
(Parallel sessions)
Objective - Establish mutual understanding of issues and develop draft recommendations
- Technical
"Managing collaborations in practice". Looking at the ICT including data formats and open standards, persistent URLs and metadata.
- Panellist: Tim Starling, MediaWiki Software Developer
- Moderator: Brianna Laugher, President, Wikimedia Australia
Parallel session: Demo guided tour of Wikipedia (repeat of previous)
Getting started demonstration, introduction to mechanics of navigation and editing
15:150 Afternoon tea
15:30 Themes - Education & Business
(Parallel sessions)
Objective - Establish mutual understanding of issues and develop draft recommendations
- Education
"Enhancing outreach activities of both communities." Cultivating an online community and the value for students. Discussing specific collaboration projects that the communities can organise together.
- Angelina Russo, Chief Investigator, Engaging with Social Media in Museums, ARC project
- Pru Mitchell, Senior Education Officer Education.au
- Moderator TBC
- Business
"identifying how different business models can effectively incorporate productive collaboration including those based on physical visitation, relevance, digital usage, information dissemination and content sales. Core Business
- Seb Chan, Manager Web Services, Powerhouse Museum
- Moderator: Angela Beesley Starling, Chair, Wikimedia Advisory Board
16:50 Wrap up Day 1
17:00 Close
19:30 Dinner
Location TBC
Friday 7 August
08:00 Registration
08:30 Policy and Politics Panel
- Objective - Identify the policy issues that affect GLAM and WikiMedia
- Panellists: Senator Kate Lundy & Senator Scott Ludlum
- Representatives of Government departments, TBC
09:30 Parallel presentations Beyond Wikipedia
- Objective - Demonstrate other Wikimedia projects
- Wikimedia Commons: Brianna Laugher, President Wikimedia Australia (Theatre)
- WikiSource and WikiBooks TBC (Courtyard Gallery)
10:00 Morning Tea and Launch
10:30 Plenary session: Summaries and recommendations from concurrent session strand moderators
- Objective - Finalise recommendations
12:10 Closing session: Next steps, action statements and final conference communique
- Objectives: Identify who can achieve what by when and set a course for future followups
13:00 Close
Afternoon meetings and workshops on request