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Argentina report

WikiConf Argentina and GLAM projects

By Angie Cervellera

About WikiConf Argentina

This year, Wikimedia Argentina along with Wikimedistas de La Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Wikimedistas del Litoral, organized a conference for the local community to meet and share experiences and knowledge about creation and of free knowledge and culture in digital environments. During the day, more than 80 people from all the country joined panels, workshops, and discussion forums.


Open Culture and GLAM track

Open Culture and GLAM was one of the main topics of the conference, along with Education, Open data and community initiatives. The GLAM section was co-leaded by Angie Cervellera and Laura Casareto (director of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata's Historical Archive).

The program presented one section dedicated to the Digitization Proyect, presented by Fernanda Dequi (WMAR's Culture and Education assistant), and another for lightening talks organized under the idea of re-using heritage in an innovative way.


Roundtable: "Digitization and open access: experiences of museums and archives"

The roundtable discussion brings together cultural professionals from several institutions that have successfully collaborated with the Wikimedia Argentina's Digitization Project. It focused on three key aspects of digitization and open access processes in museums and archives.

The first moment of the roundtable addressed the internal preparation needed before beginning digitization, which ensures the proper contextualization of documents; The second relates to the digitization process itself, including details about the equipment used, the selection criteria and the technical decisions made during the process; The third discussed how digitized materials are made available to the public through platforms like Wikimedia, highlighting the relevance of guaranteeing open access and user participation to enrich information.

This roundtable's participants were:

The proposal offered an overview of the stages before, during, and after digitization, considering the diverse realities of the participating institutions and the speakers' personal and professional background. Furthermore, concrete examples of collaborative work in workshops—both virtual and in-person—were be shared with the goal of promoting access to knowledge and open culture.

Lightning talks: “Activation and dissemination of collections: innovative strategies with a territorial and community focus”

To provide a cohesive thread for the talks and facilitate their moderation, the lightening talks were organized around the theme of “activating and disseminating collections: innovative strategies with a territorial and community focus.”

The selected proposals for sharing their experiences towards open access, archives and local communities were:

- “Archivos en Vigilia: A regional reference in Archives and Memory.” Casareto, Laura Mariana (Historical Archive, UNLP) and Cervellera, Ángela (WMAR).

-“The Culture of Northwest Argentina on Wikimedia Commons through Projecto MIL.” Granizo, María Gabriela (Provincial Directorate of Heritage and Museums of Catamarca).

-“A Guide for the Wikimedista barrial: How to Bring Wikimedia to Your Community.” Couto, Barbi (Casa Imaginada Ltda. and Libre Base Workers' Cooperative).

-“Archives, Archival Science, Wikimedia Projects, and Universities: Collaboration for the Preservation and Dissemination of Cultural Heritage.” Cueto, Julián (UNLP Wikimedia Team) and Casareto, Laura Mariana (Historical Archive, UNLP)

-“Heritage at Play! The Creation of the Open Access Video Game “Guardianes de las coplas.” Granizo, María Gabriela (Provincial Directorate of Heritage and Museums of Catamarca and School of Archaeology, National University of Catamarca) and Nora Tristezza (ICOM, Argentina).

In this context, we encouraged the participants to focus your presentations on the strategies implemented to address a topic relevant to a specific community, territory, or institution: why they had chosen these strategies, what challenges they went through during implementation and how were they overcame, and to what extent Wikimedia projects served as allies in these processes.

This full-day meeting made us clear that we're working together with people all around the country, in different kind of projects, showing a cultural diversity worth sharing with the Wikimedia movement and beyond. We're very happy to support our local community all around Argentina by opening up their collections, providing technical aid and thinking together new and meaningful ways of making culture available for everyone.


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