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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
"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 (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
"Discussing models of core business that meet sector commercial needs and Wikimedia free-culture needs". Including those based on physical visitation, relevance, digital usage, information dissemination and content sales.

Seb Chan, Manager Web Services, Powerhouse Museum

TBC

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 Arrival

08:30 Keynote: Senator Kate Lundy, Senator for the ACT

"Government 2.0 and the public's access to information"

09:10 Policy and Politics Q&A Panel
Objective - Identify the policy issues that affect the GLAM sector and the free culture movement and where government can be involved.
Panellists include:

Senator Kate Lundy, ACT Labor
Senator Scott Ludlum, WA Greens
TBC, Liberal Party
Representatives of government departments and the Gov2.0 Taskforce, TBC

Parallel session: Demo guided tour of Wikipedia (repeat of previous) getting started demonstration, introduction to mechanics of navigation and editing.

10:00 Morning tea

10:30 Parallel presentations Beyond Wikipedia

Objective - Demonstrate other Wikimedia projects

Wikimedia Commons: Brianna Laugher, President Wikimedia Australia (Theatre)
WikiSource and WikiBooks TBC (Courtyard Gallery)

10:30 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