The GLAM-Wiki US Consortium Advisory Group Meeting will focus on formalizing the core aims and principles of the Consortium, ultimately empowering advisory group members and the broader Consortium membership to purposefully move forward with steps to activate and engage the Consortium in the broader cultural sphere. This meeting will produce a list of agreed upon action steps for advisory group members to carry forth in the coming year in an effort to reignite the momentum around this initiative.
The GLAM-Wiki US Consortium brings together cultural organizations, Wikipedians, Wikimedia chapters, and individuals in an independent community of practice devoted to supporting the GLAM-Wikimedia initiative in the United States.
This professional network will facilitate "GLAMs helping GLAMs," allowing cultural organizations to work together and with Wikipedians to discuss ideas, share resources, partner on projects, establish best practices, and collectively support one another in pursuits of Wikimedia and related projects.
is committed to the Wikimedia movement's values and mission to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally."
is committed to the values and ethics of the cultural professions—especially the values of intellectual freedom, equal access to collections, responsible stewardship of materials, public engagement, and education—as laid out in the SAA's Core Values for Archivists and Code of Ethics for Archivists, AAM's Code of Ethics for Museums, and ALA's Ethics of the American Library Association.
believes that, as stewards of cultural heritage, cultural institutions and Wikipedia share a duty to promote free access and use of cultural works. While recognizing that copyrighted cultural works play an important role in our work, we believe in the principles of the open access movement (as expressed in the IFLA Statement on open access). In particular, the advent of the Internet and the rise of a digital information commons demands that institutions strive to produce digital copies of their works, and that they do so while ensuring, through all legal and practical means, downstream use.
believes that the missions and interests of both Wikimedia and cultural institutions can be met without compromise if both communities actively collaborate in a spirit of openness and empathy for each other's interests. Wikipedia should strive to become a welcoming and safe place for cultural institutions and professionals, while cultural institutions and professionals should be full, participating members of the Wikipedia online community.
The GLAM-Wiki US Consortium maintains an advisory group made up of around six cultural professionals and six Wikipedians who will focus on formalizing the core aims of the Consortium in congruence with all participants.
