GLAM Peak Hobart

Wikimedia Australia is a technology partner for the GLAM Peak Digital Access to Collections workshop being held in Hobart, Thursday 16 and Friday 17 November 2017.

Hashtag #digaccess_tas

Who attended the workshop?

• Arts Tasmania
• Bayview Secondary College
• Bruny Island Historical Society
• Channel Museum
• COMA
• Dover Museum and Art Gallery
• East Coast Heritage Museum Swansea
• Guilford Young College
• Mackillop Catholic College
• Mount Carmel College
• Museum of Old and New Art
• Ogilvie High School
• Parliament of Tasmania
• Port Arthur Historic Site Management
• Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
• Scouts Tasmania
• Supreme Court Tasmania
• Sydney Cove Archaeological Collection
• Tasmania Health Service – Wingfield Library
• Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG)
• Tasmanian Nursing Collection
• TasTAFE
• The Friends’ School
• The Hutchins School
• University of Tasmania
• Upper Derwent United Hall
• Wireless Institute of Australia

What did GLAM participants want to get out of the workshop?

* how to do this properly

* how do we find out what each other has?

* how do we match technology to available resources with workflows?

* how to make the digitised collection accessible?

* how do we make best use of social media, and make it easy for people to use the organisation's own image database in social media

* what are we aiming for as best practice?

* how do we get our organisations on board?

* what is the next step after digitisation?

* how do we manage the extra enquiries coming as we have created this new level of access?

* how do we determine the value of what we digitise - how do we choose what to digitise, is anyone interested?

* how to make our collections more accessible?

What are the problems that GLAM organisations are seeking to solve?

* money

* time

* volunteers

* copyright

* privacy - especially for schools

* resourcing

* continuity for the sector

* interoperability across the sector, right down to spelling

* data storage limitations for many - hi-res images take space

* digitisation is a buzz word in organisations, but do they really know what it means/entails?

Links to some amazing Australian collections that are out there

• The Collecting Bug hosts collections including Australian soccer cards and Australian Jazz Museum.

Challenges that Wikimedia Australia could engage in?

• Contact small collections and discuss the benefits of Creative Commons licensing