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Brazil report

New partners in Rio and GLAM WikiCon

By Sandra Soster & Juliana Cunha

In November, we signed three new GLAM partnerships in Rio de Janeiro city:

Instituto Pretos Novos is an institute located in the Centro neighborhood, central region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was founded in 1995, at the former home of the Guimarães dos Anjos family, who accidentally discovered, in 1996, the Cemitério dos Pretos Novos (Young Black People's Cemetery), while carrying out renovations at their residence. The institute's mission is to research and preserve African and Afro-Brazilian material and immaterial heritage, especially that found in its historical and archaeological site.

See the Instituto Pretos Novos' GLAM page.


Laboratório de Conservação de Documentos is a lab that aims to preserve and build a digital archive for paper documents relating to the architecture and landscape of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) Seropédica Campus. The main objective of the project is to create and coordinate actions that contribute to expanding free access to documents about the history and memory of the university.

See the Laboratório de Conservação de Documentos's GLAM page.


Casa Museu Eva Klabin is a museum located in the Lagoa neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was established in 1990 and officially opened to the public in 1995. The museum is the former home of Eva Klabin, a collector who bequeathed to the city of Rio de Janeiro a collection of almost 50 centuries of works of art, furniture and decorative ornaments, from Ancient Egypt to Impressionism.

See the Casa Museu Eva Klabin's GLAM page.

Large upload from CMU

This November, we made another important donation to the UNICAMP Memory Center collection. This is the "History of Campinas from the Aristides Pedro da Silva collection".

Consisting of 1,828 photographs (including flexible and glass negatives), dating from 1870 to 1995, this is possibly the most important photographic collection on the city of Campinas, given the breadth of the chronology, the thematic scope and the quality of the records.

This set is perfect for those who like old photos and wants to compare the changes over the time. Do you recognize the buildings and people on the photos?

As part of the project granted by the Municipality of Campinas, CMU also organized the "4th Seminar on Digital Cultural Collections of CMU" to think about the treatment and availability of photographic collections on the digital environment with the panelists:

Round-table "Challenges of managing and extroverting photographic collections" The afternoon session will focus on the case of the , from its informational importance for research to its treatment and dissemination.

Round-table "Aristides Pedro da Silva's collection at CMU: management and dissemination"

On the occasion of the event, CMU also launched an exhibition called "Campinas through the lens of V8".

See the Centro de Memória UNICAMP's GLAM page and the uploaded media.


Railways media from APESP

134 new media from the Public Archives of the State of São Paulo, including pictures of the inauguration of some railroads and of the interior of some train stations, and also of the Port of Santos. Int his batch, we also uploaded some maps of the old Brazilian Railway Network.

See the APESP' GLAM page and the uploaded media.

New batch from Casa de Oswaldo Cruz / Fiocruz

Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC) is a center for research, teaching, documentation, and communication located in Rio de Janeiro. Its main issue is the collections of Oswaldo Cruz, a Brazilian physician and scientist who was a pioneer bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer. He headed sanitation and vaccination campaigns against yellow fever, bubonic plague and smallpox. This new upload brings personal working objects of Oswaldo Cruz to Wiki.

See the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz's GLAM page and the uploaded media.

GLAM WikiCon

Pre-Conference

On November 9th, Wikimedians from Uruguay, Wiki Movimento Brasil and Casa de Oswaldo Cruz organized a special panel "Wiki Cultura: a conversation about cultural diffusion and open access to Latin American collections". Evelin Heidel (Wikimedians from Uruguay) were the host of this GLAM-talk, where LATAM GLAM institutions brought some pain-points and solutions for them.

The guests were:

  • Marcus Vinícius Pereira da Silva (Casa de Oswaldo Cruz - Brasil)
  • Francisco Landro (Centro de Fotografía de Montevideo - Uruguay)
  • Dalton Martins (Tainacan - Brasil)
  • Gabriela Fernández (Red de Museos de Canelones - Uruguay)
  • Felipe Bengoa (Enterreno - Chile)
  • Laura Casareto (Archivo Historico de la UNLP - Argentina)

You may watch the conversation in three languages: English, Portuguese or Spanish.


Brasil during the Conference

  • Musica Brasilis - making available Brazilian classical music scores with Rosana Lanzelotte (Instituto Musica Brasilis)

Brazilian music scores are difficult to find and access. Most of them have never been edited or are out of print. Many music editors have stopped printing sheet music. Join this session to explore how Musica Brasilis is joining forces with the National Library and UNESCO for the project Digital Collection of Brazilian Music Scores to preserve this important heritage.

For 30 years, we have received life stories in different media formats. Even in the 1990s, we published stories received via email from collaborators. Today, our website offers a platform that allows the submission of text and multimedia narratives. We have also carried out over 300 oral memory collection projects, in connection with local communities. In total we have interviewed over 18.000 people from all over the country. However, our current platform only provided us with limited intel about our own archive, due development limitations. This has significantly improved once we started using the Query Wikidata, which allows us to have a deeper understanding of our archive, as well being able to create graphs with this information, as int can be seen in this article.

> > > Watch the video in English, in Portuguese or in Spanish.

The Capacity Exchange is an initiative developing a platform for peer-to-peer connection and capacity building within the Wikimedia Movement. The session aims to discuss peer learning and sharing as a strategy for community-based capacity building around GLAM initiatives. Such a perspective focuses on the decentralized exchange of knowledge-skills-services, rather than centralized training and knowledge transference, as a methodology for the Global Approach for Local Skill Development.

It presents the GLAM Wiki USP Libraries, a Brazilian academic libraries project and the different axes of action in this initiative created in 2020: editing articles about researchers on Wikipedia , cataloguing scientific articles on Wikidata, creating metadata to link libraries repositories and catalogues to Wikidata, training student in media and information literacy activities using Wikipedia Project page. Participants will know initiatives developed by academic libraries with Wikimedia projects on the axes: information organization and education. We hope to discuss the potential of library activities with Wikimedia projects and help participants to identify possible activities to carry on in their contexts.

> > > Watch the video in English, in Portuguese or in Spanish.

In this communication we will address the potential of the GLAM initiative to promote the appreciation of Community archives and Social Movements. Through the GLAM initiative, it is possible to disseminate collections and generate greater social participation in the eligibility of what may constitute documentary heritage, encouraging preservation actions and promoting the dissemination of knowledge. GLAM initiatives give communities and social movements the opportunity to document their history and disseminate their collections. It is a tool that allows different subjects to elaborate and make public their own perspectives of organizational memory. GLAM can be a great ally in raising awareness of the social importance of archives and for democratizing the participation of people that ensures diversity of race, gender and regionality in the production of knowledge, in the elaboration and selection of what constitutes heritage.

> > > Watch the video in English, in Portuguese or in Spanish.

Releasing media content from GLAM on Commons has been really successful and important over many years. However, it's important it doesn't exist there in a vacuum, but instead gets integrated into the rest of the Wikimedia projects so that it is visible and used widely. We highlight the use of Wikidata as an excellent strategy to do this. In particular, the way that content is then automatically reused and visible across many projects, e.g., various language Wikipedia infoboxes and lists (using Listeria), as well as Commons category infoboxes. The same applies also to metadata added directly to Wikidata, which can be used e.g., in references (using Cite Q), dramatically increasing its visibility. We will cover other tools that can be used to manipulate and display media using Wikidata and its query service - both describing them and providing a how-to guide for how to implement them for your projects.

> > > See the Slides

The world loses irreplaceable pieces of knowledge all the time due to wars, fires, natural disasters, and other crises, especially in museums, libraries, and archives, but also external objects such as monuments. As the world's largest and most available source of knowledge, the Wikimedia movement and its projects have not only the ability but also the duty, to share those objects and safeguard them. In this panel, we intend to show how we can accomplish that together, why it is important, what are the accessibility challenges and how we can advocate to overcome them. in order to safeguard those objects, the country where those objects are situated should have Copyright Laws that allow not only allows proper digitization and documentation, but also policies that allow the sharing of reproductions, such as Freedom of Panorama, Open Licenses guidelines, and other Copyright considerations, which are all accomplished by Copyright Reforms.

> > > Watch the video in English, in Portuguese or in Spanish.

This panel will contribute to discussions about and connect GLAM professionals to international efforts on the representation of feminism, art and visual culture on Wikimedia projects highlighting its potential societal impact on media literacy. The audience will learn from the unique perspectives of Art+Feminism’s Regional Leaders. In detail, this session will explore how museums and cultural organizations can broaden their efforts toward tangible actions to address access and knowledge equity through media literacy and inclusive learning programs. Providing foreground to this session, a case study about how the Caribbean Cultural Institute at Pérez Art Museum Miami, and Art+Feminism — “a campaign improving coverage of cis and transgender women, non-binary folks, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia” — were paired in the development of media literacy programs will launch the conversation into how museums can have an impact on younger generations and openly share museum scholarship online.

> > > Watch the video in English, in Portuguese or in Spanish.

Presents the Every Book its reader campaign and its results. The campaign was organized in 2023 by librarians from different countries to promote the improvement of content about books in Wikimedia projects.

> > > Watch the video in English, in Portuguese or in Spanish.

Participants will learn how the complexity of the situation of Brazilian memory institutions led us to develop a tool that allows volunteers to help them set up a plan for their effective presence on Wikimedia platforms. We will address issues such as: the need to serve large and small institutions; setting expectations based on the institution’s reality; identifying potentials and challenges for establishing a partnership; collaboration between professionals and volunteers; and the importance of putting together a action plan to build the institution’s loyalty in the Wikimedia Movement.

> > > Watch the in English, in Portuguese or in Spanish.

  • Wiki Cultura: Open Digital Transformation for Latin American Collections with Marcus Vinícius (Fundación Osvaldo Cruz / Casa do Fio Cruz, Brasil)

Panel conversation gathering ideas from the pre-conference special panel "Wiki Cultura: a conversation about cultural diffusion and open access to Latin American collections" and other realized during the GLAM WikiCon.

> > > Watch the video in English, in Portuguese or in Spanish.

  • Meeting of Brazilian community

During the event, the Brazilian GLAM community met and talked about projects.


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