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This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue I, January 2025

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Italy report

New Wikimedia Italia Grant for GLAMs

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By Marta Arosio

Since 2021, Wikimedia Italia GLAM grant has supported cultural institutions in Italy in making their digitized heritage freely accessible online. Organized in collaboration with ICOM Italy and Creative Commons Italy, the initiative promotes the open reuse of public domain images and content under free licenses.

The GLAM grant is open to cultural institutions of all sizes, both public and private, across Italy. While primarily aimed at museums, archives, and libraries, it also welcomes proposals from organizations managing cultural collections. The grant provides funding between €2,000 and €8,000 for projects that facilitate the online sharing of cultural heritage materials through Wikimedia platforms and other open-access initiatives.

Over the years, the grant has supported 30 projects from institutions across Italy. Some have focused on multimedia contributions, such as the Museums of Strada Nuova in Genoa and the high school Aldo Capitini in Perugia, which uploaded images to Wikimedia Commons, enriched Wikidata, and expanded Wikipedia entries. Others have enabled the release of entire book scans, like the Archiepiscopal Library of Brindisi (medieval manuscripts and incunabula) and the University of Turin's Economics Library (local history texts). The initiative has also supported 3D digitization projects at the Natural History Museum of Pisa and database integrations with OpenStreetMap by the CNR Library in Bologna.

The 2025 call for proposals is open until March 1st.

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