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This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue III, March 2025

Switzerland report

GLAM on Tour Canton's Library Aargau

Librarian Nicolas Sartori is part of the GLAM Wiki Group of WMCH. After several project presentations and with curiosity he was interested to host a GLAM-on-Tour event at the Canton's Library Aargau where he works. The canton's library is located in Aarau which was the Swiss municipal city before Berne. Swiss history has been written and archived in the town near Zurich. The aim of the editathon was to write on specific Aargau history topics as well as on the women from Aargau whose biografies have been disregarded in the past. Nicolas organized it together with Melissa Flück who is responsible for the volunteer programme at the library. For a talk on the history of women scientist Ruth Wiederkehr was invited to talk on personalities from Aargau showing her publications with all the sources she found. The results of the ediatathon can be found here.

GRADE Conference

In March 2025 the GRADE conference in Belgrade addressed questions on the future of Digital Europe. GRADE means Grassroots of Digital Europe. Grassroot movements are deeply democratic movements in the sense that they have no economic purposes. In the early digital days lots of different movements have been growing as also the Wiki movement that might be the biggest one. Women played a marginalized role since the development of persona computing. As viisual movement the Demoscene has been featured that is now regognized as official Unesco cultural heritage. The full programme of the conference is here.

Project Line Matrimoine

Collecting memorials of women is quite difficult as women have been left out from history until the 20th century. Still some women do have memorials that might be difficult to discover but they do exist. With the project line called Matrimoine we focus on women biographies and female memorials. Find the project page here. The artist Frauke Beeck travels through Switzerland and already found 30 women memorials. User:Elena Ternovaja fotographed memorials on women in Basel, you find them here. Writing women biographies is the goal of several Meetups. Neocomensia organized an editathon on the women from Neuchâtel where articles were created in French and German, find here further informations. With the general project line called Matrimoine we focus on women biographies and female memorials. Find the umbrella project page here.