GLAM/Newsletter/November 2024/Contents/AvoinGLAM report

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue XI, November 2024

AvoinGLAM report

Winter Festival

The open knowledge community in Finland, including AvoinGLAM, hosted a Winter Festival 2 December. The event gathered advocates from across the open community to coordinate activities together.

AI 💖 Regulation

The highlight of the event was the panel discussion on AI and regulation. The panelists included Miapetra Kumpula-Natri (Member of the Finnish Parliament, ex-MEP), Minna Mustakallio (Head of Responsible AI, Yle), Nitin Sawhney (Professor of Practice, Aalto CRAI-CIS Research Group), Tapani Tarvainen (Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Finland) moderated by Tarmo Toikkanen (Senior Lead, Data and AI programme, Sitra and former Open Knowledge ED).

👉 Watch the recording (English)

The speakers shared their in-depth understanding about the perspectives to regulation right in time before the deadline of submitting the statement for the request for comments regarding the implementation of the AI Act in Finland.

👉 Open Knowledge Finland's statement can be read on the website (Finnish).

Moderator Tarmo Toikkanen
Panelists Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Minna Mustakallio, Tapani Tarvainen, and Nitin Sawhney

Creative Commons Finland Reboot

Creative Commons Finland Reboot gathered a dozen guests in sketching out CC Finland's activities, including

Promoting correct licensing in open culture and advocating for Open Access policies for cultural heritage institutions.
Promoting CC licenses, perhaps offer training.
Supporting the work with the Creative Commons -led initiative TAROCH – Towards A Recommendation on Open Cultural Heritage.

TAROCH

AvoinGLAM takes an active role in the preparation of the TAROCH initiative to advocate for a normative instrument supporting open cultural heritage at UNESCO.

AvoinGLAM, the National Library of Finland, and the Music Archive Finland have joined as founding members and together wish to facilitate Finland taking an active role in the initiative.

Director of Services at the National Library of Finland Johanna Lilja commenting on TAROCH, AI and cultural heritage

New UNESCO Living Heritage Elements

66 new living heritage elements corresponding to 5 regions and 90 countries were inscribed in the UNESCO Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage at the 19th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asunción, Republic of Paraguay on 5 December 2024. The 2024 entries mark the first registrations for Brunei Darussalam, Ghana, Myanmar, Rwanda and Somalia.

AvoinGLAM is adding data about the elements to Wikidata. This makes the heritage elements become visible on Wiki Loves Living Heritage, and connects them to further data as well as related articles and images on Wikimedia projects. AvoinGLAM's campaign of 2023 continues to grow the open online resource related to intangible cultural heritage.

Congratulations, among others, to the Ghana community for introducing Kente cloth on the lists (UNESCO page, Wikidocumentaries in Twi, Ghanaian Pidgin English, and the Ukrainian–Estonian inscription of Pysanka, Ukrainian tradition and art of decorating eggs (UNESCO page, Wikidocumentaries: Ukrainian)!

Image from the Kente Festival 2019
Egyptian woman holding a pair of Egyptian simsimiyya lyres
A mix of traditional Ukrainian, diasporan and original pysanky

New Media Art Archiving workshop at ZKM

The AvoinGLAM-initiated Media Art History Expert Meeting group made a successful proposal to the Workshop on New Media Art archiving 2025, which will be hosted by ZKM 5–8 February, 2025.

The workshop will build on the work initiated during the expert meeting held in Amsterdam in October and continue the effort to create a blueprint for making use of the Wikimedia ecosystem in archiving media art.

The activity is part of AvoinGLAM's tribute to Minna Tarkka (1960–2023).

👉 Workshop on New Media Art Archiving

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