Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Wikimedia DC GLAM Camp 2025
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Wikimedia DC GLAM Camp 2025
Wikimedia DC's GLAM Boot Camp aims to equip cultural professionals, heritage specialists, and interested Wikipedians/Wikimedians with the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to collaborate effectively on Wikimedia projects. Focusing on Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM), participants will learn best practices for contributing to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and related platforms to improve publicly available cultural and heritage knowledge.
The camp is co-hosted by the National Gallery of Art and generously supported by Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
When
- Thursday, September 18, 2025 6:00PM - 9:00PM
- Friday, September 19, 2025 10:00AM - 4:30PM
- Saturday, September 20, 2025 10:00AM - 4:50PM
- Sunday, September 21, 2025 10:15AM - 12:00PM
Where
- National Gallery of Art, East building
- 4th St NW between Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Drive
- Washington, DC 20565
Required
- Government-issued ID
- Please bring your own laptop.
Co-lead organizers / points of contact
- Ariel Cetrone, Mary Mark Ockerbloom, and Matt Westerby
Photos
Safe Space policy
This Safe Space Policy provides information pertinent to GLAM Camp, a Wikimedia District of Columbia ("Wikimedia DC") event. Its purpose is to ensure that Wikibootcamp is free of harassment and other unwelcome behavior. It is also printed and posted on walls at Wikibootcamp. In addition to this policy, each Wikibootcampers was asked to read the Wikimedia Foundation policy for Safe Space and to complete the online training about it.
If you would like to speak with someone regarding a safe space issue, please reach out to these event organizers:
- Ariel Cetrone
- Peter Meyer
- Sara Snyder
Program
Thursday
Reception
Friday
| Time | Topic | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 AM | Arrival, National Gallery of Art East Building | Bring government ID, check-in at desk |
| 10:15 AM | Opening, NGA Seminar room | |
| 10:30 AM | NGA welcome and introduction | |
| 10:45 AM | Attendee introductions | |
| 11:15 AM | Understanding the readership of Wikipedia | |
| 11:45 AM | The State of GLAMs | |
| 12:15 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:15 PM | Group photo, Tour of NGA Library Collections | |
| 2:15 PM | Wikipedia Workbook for Cultural Institutions | |
| 3:15 PM | Lightning talks - Wikimedia GLAM projects in practice | |
| 3:45 PM | Intro to Wikidata | |
| 4:45 PM | Close | |
| 5:00 PM | Dinner on your own | |
Saturday
| Time | Topic | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 AM | Arrival, National Gallery of Art East Building | Bring government ID, check-in at desk |
| 10:15 AM | Opening, NGA Studio | |
| 10:30 AM | Lightning talks - Wikimedia GLAM projects in practice | |
| 11:00 AM | Wikidata for linking and graphing art museum collections, focusing on the Index of American Design | |
| 11:30 AM | Break | |
| 11:45 AM | Hands-on Wikidata activity: Using inteGraality to explore and edit Wikidata | |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30 PM | OpenRefine and Wikimedia | |
| 2:30 PM | Wikimedia Foundation and non-WMF grant writing and reporting plus templates | |
| 3:00 PM | Walk to National Museum of Women in the Arts | |
| 3:30 PM | Guided tour: National Museum of Women in the Arts | |
| 4:30 PM | Dinner on your own | |
Sunday
| Time | Topic | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 AM | Arrival, National Gallery of Art East Building | Bring government ID, check-in at desk |
| 10:15 AM | Opening, NGA Studio | |
| 10:20 AM | What’s in the Public Domain: Some practical tools/Commons upload activity | |
| 11:20 AM | Setting up a campaign in the Outreach Dashboard | |
| 11:45 AM | Closing remarks | |
Tools, pages or links shared
September 19, 2025
Session: State of GLAM
Linked open data, graphed form, example 1]
Wiki Workbook, presented
- Wikipedia Workbook for Cultural Institutions
- African-American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project
- inteGraality
- GLAMorous tool
- GLAMorous2 tool
Lightning talks
- Smithsonian (NMAI, Libraries and Archives, American Women's History Museum)
- Wikidata example 1
- Wikidata example 2
- Smithsonian WikiNames
Intro to Wikidata
September 20, 2025
- Beyond Static Metadata: Wikibase as a Dynamic Knowledge Ecosystem
- Women, Fiber Art and Wikimedia
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Craft
- Craft Statistics by occupation, (inteGraality)
- [Sample grant for craft-focused Wikipedia project]
- Wikidata for linking and graphing art museum collections, focusing on the Index of American Design.
- Creating an Index of American Design By Matthew J. Westerby
- Query showing NGA work on Wikidata for linking and graphing art museum collections, focusing on the Index of American Design
- Romana Javitz
- Standing poodle Wikidata item showing relationship to item from Index of American Design (Ceramic Dog (Q64595115))
- Wikimedia Commons category: Index of American Design, National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)
- Women and the Index of American Design Upcoming Exhibition
- Marguerite Carmel Wilson
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by collection/National Gallery of Art
September 21, 2025