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This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue III, March 2024

Switzerland report

Swiss GLAM Programme

Wiki Science Competition

The winners of the Wiki Science Competition are nominated in March 2024. The winners from Switzerland will be celebrated at the wiki market event 27th of April in Berne at Welle 7. Images are uploaded in different categories and go from analytical images to presentations from Swiss archives as Wax Cylinders and other objects. The competition took place internationally in November and December 2023 and has been financed by Wikimedia Switzerland. There were many natural phenomens captured as the sunspots and the icebergs in Iceland. Videos on the Swiss sky as well as on astronomy observations can be found in the different categories. More details on the contest are listed here.

Digital Archive of Women Artists

In Biel/Bienne there are now regular GLAM Meetings at the KBCB. In March the project ArtWomenUp has been presented. 30 years of analogue fotography by Simone Kornfeld is now little by little transfered on Commons. In the presentation the working process was presented. With the help of user:1rhb it could all be uploaded and made accessible to a wide audience.

Swiss National Library

In 2023 the Swiss constitution celebrated its 175th anniversary. Wikimedia Switzerland supported the campaign with the ediatathon in Neuchatel. The Swiss National Library uploaded several images from the founding of the Swiss constitution. As the Swiss National Library is well perceived by all other Swiss Libraries they also start to engage and upload their images of their collections. Besides the one day Edtitathons called Atelier it continues spreading the word and getting more and more libraries engaged. The partnership with the Swiss National Library this year developes further and will lead to a GLAM-on-Tour in June.

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