GLAM/Newsletter/September 2025/Contents/Switzerland report
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LibreABC, Feminist Voices, Grade Conference
LibreABC
The conference LibreABC took place in Geneva at the ethnographic museum. The GLAM programme gave a presentation on oral storytelling and had a stand with informations on the wiki movement. From the GLAM community the project Wikineocomensia was presented. Open Education Resources, Open Data and open infrastructures played a key role. The history was outlined from the dream of a free internet with libre hardware to controlled technology and open source tools today. Several projects using Wikidata and wiki source were presented. The conference was attended by scientists, librarians and archivists.
Feminist Voices
The symposium Feminist Voices was organized by the German Artist Association Deutscher Künstlerbund. With the exhibition Our Voices the 75th birthday of the association has been celebrated. As women artists had not been exposed in the history of the association the decision was to show women artists only in the museum's exhibition. Female artists could apply for doing research on women artists of the association. The work that developed out of the research was exhibitted. When working on feminist posters in July the idea came up to continue writing on women artists by participating at the symposium in the museum. The feminist gallery Glaab from Berne gave an input on prices of artworks in collections. As in Switzerland women could only open their bank account as late as in the year 1988 there is still a financial gap in the value of art works made by women. The association FATart presented their projects.
Grade Conference
The abbreviation Grade stands for Grassroots of Digital Europe. The programme is funded and organized by the European Union. As the wiki movement is one of the biggest grassroot movements we were invited to join. This time the meetup took place at the art academy in Vienna. For the conference we cooperated between the programmes Innovation and GLAM. We presented the wiki sister projects and gave advice on how to publisg scientific work under a CC-license. There are many creative computer pioneers that are not known yet (for Example Nicola Pellow), especially when they come from Eastern Europe and when they are female.
