GLAM

GLAM is an acronym for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. GLAM provide the bedrock for our verifiable informations. The original books and manuscripts provide us with the citations that we require. Our illustrations should include information on the location of the original material. When you can see the original, when you know its annotations, an illustration truthfully shows what was originally there.

When we make use of the original material we get from our partnering GLAM, we may make changes to the material. This is one of the freedoms that we insist on. However by retaining the original material as well and by referring to it and from it always to the GLAM we provide the provenance needed for our illustrations. When we share material with a GLAM, the annotations are typically quite technical. Some of the material have their own stories. At this time we do not really have a place for them.

GLAM-WIKI 2009

On August 6-7 2009, a GLAM-WIKI conference was organized by Wikimedia Australia at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Participants in Australia's GLAM and Wikimedia communities were invited to attend.

See also

• NPG issue; Protecting the public domain and sharing our cultural heritage (July 2009)
• Best practices in building a content partnership with a cultural institution

External links

• "Archives or Assets?", Peter B. Hirdle, President of the Society of American Archivists (2003).
• "Public Domain Art in an Age of Easier Mechanical Reproducibility", by Kenneth Hamma, Executive Director for Digital Policy, J. Paul Getty Trust (November 2005).
• Research Institutes in the History of Arts against Rising Image Permission Costs (November 2008).
• http://hangingtogether.org/?p=692