GLAM Working Group
Introduction
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The GLAM Working Group’s mission is to strengthen the cooperation between libraries, archives, museums, heritage institutions, and the Arts and Humanities in the area of digital infrastructures. Its activities aim towards building a scholarly community of practice focusing on sharing data, tools, services, and knowledge to produce digitally enabled scholarship that is reusable, visible, and sustainable.
The working group is coordinated by:
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Iolanda Pensa (SUPSI)
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Cristina Grisot (DARIAH-CH)
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Rita Gautschy (DaSCH)
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Christiane Sibille (ETH Library)
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Pierre-Louis Blanchard (Swiss National Museum)
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Heike Bazak (Museum of Communication / PTT-ARCHIV)
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Overarching objectives:
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Support thematic projects that can facilitate a conversation between the GLAM institutions, including their respective networks, and scientific research areas with respect to opening data and carrying out joint projects.
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Establish good collaboration relationships with public administrations of cantons with the aim to facilitate the GLAM institutions’ participation in joint projects with arts and humanities scientific research
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Identify national and European multiplier entities and onboard them in the DARIAH-CH GLAM WG
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Coordinate with related initiatives at the European level, especially thematic working groups, such as DARIAH, Europeana, Wikimedia, and others.​​​​
Activities
1st Preparatory workshop
September 5, 2024, workshop at the GLAMhack24
Participants brainstormed and prioritised the opportunities, the challenges and the success factors of a closer cooperation between Digital Humanities and GLAM institutions.
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More detailed documentation for the work of the WG can be found on its wikimedia collaborative work space: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DARIAH-CH/GLAM
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