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This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue IV, April 2026

Brazil report

Wikimedia Brasil publishes book on the power and challenges of free knowledge

Free Cultural Difusion

Organized by João Alexandre Peschanski and Amanda Chevtchouk Jurno, and featuring more than 40 authors, the book A wikimedia no Brasil - o poder e os desafios do conhecimento livre (Wikimedia in Brazil - the power and challenges of free knowledge) includes an entire section dedicated to the dissemination of free culture, featuring case studies, reports, and technical debates within the Brazilian GLAM-Wiki ecosystem.

In seven chapters, Part III - Free Cultural Diffusion discusses topics such as the democratization of access, FAIR principles, relicensing, feedback loops, Media and Information Literacy (MIL) practices, interoperability with key systems of Brazilian digital culture like Tainacan, linked data, semantic web, and diffusion strategies:

Digital Collection of Brazilian Sheet Music – reuse through Wikimedia Commons, from Rosana S. G. Lanzelotte, Nivia G. Zumpano and Thiago Rocha

The GLAM-Wiki initiative of the Museum of Veterinary Anatomy of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science of the University of São Paulo, from Mauricio Candido da Silva

Wikidata as sociotechnical infrastructure for academic and cultural data, from Erika Guetti Suca, Éder Porto Ferreira Alves, Tiago Lubiana and Mike Peel

Brazilian university libraries and Wikimedia projects: the experience of the School of Communications and Arts (ECA) and the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IME) in the GLAM Libraries of the University of São Paulo (USP), from Lilian Viana, Stela do Nascimento Madruga

Expanding boundaries: The Electronic Language International Festival (FILE) and its incorporation into the GLAM ecosystem, from Paula Perissinotto

Linked Data with Wikipedia and Wikidata: reducing information silos on the web with news about Music in 19th-Century Periodicals (MPO), from Cláudio José Silva Ribeiro and Martha Tupinambá de Ulhôa

Diffusion of GLAM collections via partnerships with Wiki Movimento Brasil (WMB): analysis and contributions, from Adriane Gomes, Rodrigues Batata, Sandra Schmitt Soster

Certificadora Social is the newest WikiProject and has already delivered its first upload!

The newest partner joining the effort to diffuse media through Wikimedia platforms is Certificadora Social. The institution is a civil society organization that seeks to certify other NGOs, encouraging a culture of donation and strengthening trust in the Brazilian social sector. Responsible for initiatives such as the Selo Doar and the Melhores ONGs (Best NGOs) Award, the organization made part of its photographic collection available on Wikimedia Commons this April. This first upload is linked to the most recent edition of the awards ceremony.

Photographs taken during the Best NGOs 2025 Award ceremony held at Melicidad. by Don Visual / Mercado Pago
Celio Costa and Érica Azzellini. Photographs taken during the Best NGOs 2025 Award ceremony held at Melicidad. by Don Visual / Mercado Pago
Photographs taken during the Best NGOs 2025 Award ceremony held at Melicidad. by Don Visual / Mercado Pago

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