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Open Access Anniversary Event @ The Met

When and Where
Date	Tuesday, February 13, 2017
Time	12:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Address	Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education The Met (81st Street entrance) 1000 Fifth Avenue
City, State	New York City, New York 10028

Open Access Anniversary Event at The Met. The Met will host a free event to mark the one-year anniversary of its Open Access initiative, in cooperation with their partners, Wikimedia NYC and the Wikimedia Foundation. This two-part event will explore the potential and value of opening up institutional collections and data to the public.

Being held on Tuesday February 13, 2018, the event will feature a Wikidata panel and workshop (including an Art+Feminism focus), and a conversation with Katherine Maher.

Event information

• Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2018
• Time: 12:30-5:00pm
• Location: Seminar Room and Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall
  Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education (81st Street entrance) at The Met, 1000 Fifth Avenue
• Met Blog: Save the Date: An Open Access Anniversary Event at The Met
• Register: Register at Eventbrite

Please check in with Museum staff when you arrive. Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords to participate in the workshop.

Schedule of events

• 12:30–3:30 pm: A Panel Discussion and Wikidata Workshop (Seminar Room)

  A moderated discussion with a panel of open data experts, including Effie Kapsalis, Chief of Content and Communications Strategy, Smithsonian Institution Archives; Richard Knipel, Wikimedian-in-Residence, The Met; and Andrew Lih, author of The Wikipedia Revolution: How A Bunch of Nobodies Created The World's Greatest Encyclopedia.

• A hands-on workshop putting Wikidata to use for your institution's collection. A thematic focus will be women artists and their works with the Art+Feminism campaign, though all topics are open.

• 4–5 pm: In Conversation (Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall)

• Katherine Maher, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation and Loic Tallon, Chief Digital Officer, The Met, moderated by Dennis K. Berman, Business Editor, The Wall Street Journal

Wikidata links

• WikiProject Sum of All Paintings
• Art+Feminism on Wikidata
• Gallery of Met artworks on Wikidata
  • (Try a visual query!)
• Histropedia timeline of Met artworks

Sign up

In addition to signing up on Wikipedia, please also register at Eventbrite.

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• Pharos (talk) 22:01, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
• Megs (talk) 18:43, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

• Theredproject (talk) 19:41, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

• Mozucat (talk) 19:55, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

• Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:36, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

• Becksguy (talk) 23:57, 25 January 2018 (UTC)