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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.

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.


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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:

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

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 even organizers who are attending the event and are staying at the event’s hotel:

  • Ariel Cetrone
  • Peter Meyer
  • Sara Snyder

Reception

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
11:00 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
2:15 PM Wiki 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
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 the 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
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

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