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This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue III, March 2017

Belgium report

Open Belgium; Just For The Record; Staff from libraries educated

Open Belgium

On 6 March the annual conference Open Belgium took place in Brussels in a building at Tour & Taxis. The conference is organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium, with support from Wikimedia Belgium. The conference serves as showcase for free knowledge projects with GLAMs and governmental organisations in Belgium. During the conference also a presentation was given about the gendergap on Wikipedia.

Just For The Record

On 8 March 2017, at International Women's Day, Just For The Record organised an Art+Feminism session in Brussels. This session was hosted at the Royal Library of Belgium. About 50 people participated in this event and wrote articles on Wikipedia. (project page)

On 22 March another Just For The Record session took place, in La Bellone, in Brussels. The theme of this session was Memory Factory. (project page)

On 25 March a third Just For The Record session took place, also in La Bellone in Brussels. The theme of this session was Queer and Feminist Archives. (project page)

Staff from libraries educated

On 23 and 24 march we gave two sessions in what staff of various libraries in Flemish Brabant were teached about Wikipedia, Wikimedia and more. The two sessions took place in two different places, one in the western side of the province (Relegem/Zellik) and one in the eastern side (Leuven). The sessions included also that each of the participants wrote a basic article on Wikipedia to get a better understanding how editing on Wikipedia works, and what you need to do to get a good article. With 18 participants in the two sessions together, this resulted in 19 articles written. (project page)

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