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This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue IX, September 2025

Portugal report

GLAM Wiki 2025: Join the Conference Online and Explore Lisbon’s Culture

Join GLAM Wiki 2025 online

Can’t make it to Lisbon? You can still be part of GLAM Wiki 2025! All sessions taking place in the Auditorium will be livestreamed and include simultaneous interpretation between Portuguese and English, allowing participants around the world to join in real time.

Check out below the sessions that will be broadcast live from the Auditorium (all times in UTC+0):

October 30 (Thursday)

09:00: Welcome to GLAM Wiki 2025 – Andre Barbosa, Flavia Doria
09:15: Building the Future of Cultural Heritage – Carlos Silva, Dalia Guerreiro, Giovanna Fontenelle, Laércia Valeriana Insali, Teresa Nobre, Tiago Lubiana
10:45: Decolonization Lightning Talks – Carla Ariadna Salazar Benavides, Filipa de Belém, Irvin Sto. Tomas, Joaquim Santos, Lukas Fuchsgruber
13:45: Data is Everything: Why Knowledge Institutions are the Future of AI – Greg Leppert
14:30: Technology Lightning Talks – Angela Cervellera, Hisyam Athaya, Marco Chemello, Marta Arosio, Ursula Oberst
16:15: Heritage at Risk Lightning Talks – Caroline Nankinga, Edurne Agirre, Martin Poulter, Tiago Lubiana, Viacheslav Mamon

October 31 (Friday)

09:00: Welcome to Day 2 – Vanessa Sanches
09:15: Digital Resilience – Beatrice Murch, Doug McCarthy, Irvin St. Tomas, Jael Serwaa Boateng, Nat Baca
10:45: Human Rights Lightning Talks – Barakat Adegboye, Fatima Sao Simao, Johana Botero, Lucy Moore, Sandra Becker
13:45: Resilience as a Tool – Filipa Oliveira
14:30: Gender Lightning Talks – Camelia Boban, Flavia Doria, Isabel Zapico, Olena Vinsent, Patricia Horrillo
16:15: Advocacy Lightning Talks – Dee Harris, Evelin Heidel, John Andersson, Jos Damen, Mike Dickison
17:45: GLAM Hack Presentation – Susanna Ånäs

November 1 (Saturday)

09:00: Welcome to Day 3 – Vanessa Sanches
09:15: Community Resilience – Alice Kibombo, Dee Harris, Eric Luth, Farida El-Gueretly, Fiona Romeo, Flavia Doria
10:45: Reuse of Public Sector Information: Saying Please or Saying Now – Mathias Schindler
11:30: Meet the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees – Natalia Szafran
13:45: Keynote: Openness, still in? Building a Public Policy for Digital Heritage in Uncertain Times – Daniela Serra
14:30: Digital Documenting Cultural Heritage in Wartime: Ukrainian Experience – Olena Vinsent
15:15: Nominating Wikipedia for UNESCO Memory of the World: The Never-Before-Told Story – Liam Wyatt
16:00: Digitising Knowledge: Unlocking Kenya’s, Nigeria’s, and Ghana’s Library Treasures Through Wikisource – Esther Wanjiku
17:30: Closing – Connor Benedict

How to join? You can watch online by registerig on Zoom here!.

Attendees can also check the complete program of the conference here.

Cultural visits in Lisbon

In-person participants are invited to explore Lisbon through a series of guided visits to museums, archives, libraries, artist studios, and heritage sites.

These tours are free for registered conference participants, but pre-registration is required by 17 October and places are limited (first come, first served). Use the registration form linked from the conference page on Meta.

Registration is open until 17 October! Click here to select your favorite tours.

Some gems of the cultural program:

Júlio Pomar Atelier-Museum — Visit Neorrealismos ou a politização da arte em Júlio Pomar, exploring the intersections of art and politics in Portugal.
MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology — Guided tour of Lisbon’s historic thermoelectric power station and the evolution of energy.
Torre do Tombo National Archive — Insight into one of Portugal’s most important archives and its documentary heritage.
Cemetery of Prazeres — Architecture and symbolism among some of Portugal’s most notable mausoleums.
National Library of Portugal — Behind the scenes of conservation and digitization of Portugal’s literary memory.
Palácio Nacional da Ajuda — An exclusive private visit to Lisbon’s former royal residence and national museum.

Júlio Pomar Atelier-Museum
Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT)
Torre do Tombo National Archive
Cemetery of Prazeres
National Library of Portugal
Ajuda National Palace

Screenings at the Cinemateca Portuguesa During the week of 27 October, the Cinemateca Portuguesa will host a selection of film screenings (including events for the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage). Registered participants may sign up to attend for free using the same pre-registration form referenced above!

For the most up-to-date information on livestream links, tour schedules, capacity, and languages, please check the Meta program page

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