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, Manager, Visual & Digitisation Services, Powerhouse Museum
- "Access: unlocking our content - Flickr Commons + beyond"
- Business: Mathias Schindler, Project Manager Wikimedia Deutschland
- "The anatomy of a 100,000 image cooperation: German Federal Archives, Wikipedia and the greater picture"
- Video presentations from international GLAM sector directors (it's a surprise...)
11:30 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
- "Copyright and the rise of open content licensing" (session for those with more limited exposure to copyright law). Courtyard Gallery
- Facilitator: Graeme Bartlett
- Graham Greenleaf, Unlocking IP Project @ CLPC & Co-Director AustLII
- "The Public Rights in Copyright" (session for copyright/access practitioners). Main Theatre
- Facilitator: Daniel Bryant
13:00 Lunch including message from CustomWare.
14:00 Theme - Technical
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.
- Rose Holley, Manager of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program, National Library of Australia
- "Perspectives on National Library of Australia Developments".
- Facilitator: 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.
15:15 Afternoon tea
15:30 Themes
(Parallel sessions)
Objective - Establish mutual understanding of issues and develop draft recommendations
- Education Main Theatre
"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
- John Quiggin, Professor of Economics and Australian Financial Review columnist (via video link)
- Facilitator: Andrew Owens
- Business Courtyard Gallery
"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, Head of Digital, Social and Emerging Technologies, Powerhouse Museum
- Facilitator: Angela Beesley Starling, Chair, Wikimedia Advisory Board
16:50 Wrap up Day 1
17:00 Close
18:00 Dinner + Drinks
@ Debacle
30 Lonsdale St, Braddon 2612 map
Friday 7 August
08:00 Arrival
08:30 Keynote: Senator Kate Lundy, Senator for the ACT
- "Government 2.0 and public 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.
- Senator Kate Lundy, ACT Labor. Member of the Communications and the Arts Senate Committee
- Senator Scott Ludlum, WA Greens. spokesperson for Broadband, Communications & the Digital Economy
- Alistair Coe, ACT Liberals, Legislative Assembly. Shadow minister for Heritage and Youth
- Seb Chan, Powerhouse Museum and Gov2.0 Taskforce member
- Paul Reynolds, Adjunct Director to the Digital Library of the National Library of NZ and the NZ National Digital Forum
- Kylie Johnson, New Media Adviser, Department Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
- Ian McDonald, Acting Director, Australian Copyright Council
10:00 Morning tea
10:30 Beyond Wikipedia
(parallel sessions)
- Brianna Laugher, President Wikimedia Australia
- "Wikimedia Commons: The media repository behind Wikipedia" Main Theatre
- Mathias Schindler, Project Officer, Wikimedia Deutschland
- "The metadata ecosystem: moving records between Wikipedia and the German National Library" Courtyard Gallery
11:00 Recommendations
Objective - Discuss recommendations from each theme
Summary of discussion by theme moderators and presentation of each theme's recommendations.
- Graeme Bartlett & Daniel Bryant (law); Brianna Laugher (tech); Andrew Owens (education); Angela Beesley (Business)
11:50 Breakout session: "Birds of a feather".
Special interest discussion groups, topics arising from the recommendations.
12:30 Next Steps: Liam Wyatt, GLAM-WIKI Convenor and Vice-President, Wikimedia Australia
Objectives - Identify who can achieve what by when and set a course for future followups
"Where to from here?"
13:00 Close
Afternoon meetings and workshops on request