Europeana Fashion at Wikimania 2014

We are excited to participate in this year’s Wikimania conference in London. Europeana Fashion will be respresented on Friday 8 August in the panel “F” for Fashion: our joint GLAM-Wiki efforts in collaboration with Europeana-Fashion during which representatives from Europeana Fashion and Wikimedia will talk about making their collections available for the public.

Arild Gyllenstierna and Erika sitting in the garden and drinking coffee, 1890-1920. Photo: Louise Hagberg. Collection Nordiska museet. Image in Public Domain.

Wikimania is the official annual event of the Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia movement is about unlocking humanity’s potential through online communities, developing education, democratic media systems, open scholarship and open data.

Europeana Fashion is collaborating with the Wikimedia through its GLAM-Wiki efforts. GLAM-Wiki efforts are projects in which galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) work with the Wikimedia community to make their collections available online via Wikimedia Commons and to let users engage with the collections in new ways.

One of those ways is by organising fashion edit-a-thons, events during which people gather to write and edit articles on Wikipedia. Europeana has already organised several fashion-themed edit-a-thons around Europe and Europeana Fashion partners are making available images of their collections on Wikimedia Commons so people can use and re-use that content.

Europeana Fashion even published a handbook about how to organise an edit-a-thon!

We invite you to join us during the panel!

“F’ for Fashion: our joint GLAM-Wiki efforts in collaboration with Europeana-Fashion
Friday 8 August, 12h00-12h45, Frobisher 456

Wikimania 2014 (registration required)
Wednesday 6 August until Sunday 10 August, Barbican Centre in London, UK

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