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Digital Heritage in Action: The Heritage Lab, Wikimedia UK, and the future of GLAM Collaboration
The Heritage Lab and Wikimedia UK are pleased to announce a new collaboration in 2025, involving research fellows from across the UK GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) sector. The Heritage…
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Unlocking the potential of digital collections – a call to action
A call to action has been made to the UK’s cultural heritage sector to build a unified digital collection, or risk losing the opportunity to be a global leader in…
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GLAM-E Lab x Wikimedia UK: follow-on partnership
The University of Exeter’s GLAM-E Lab and Wikimedia UK are pleased to announce the continuation of our partnership into 2024. Following on from the success of the Connected Heritage project…
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Khalili Foundation: Year in Review
Dr Martin Poulter has been the Wikimedian in Residence at the Khalili Foundation since 2019. Our partnership with the Khalili Foundation has facilitated an incredible wealth of cultural information and…
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Queer Britain’s Wikimedian in Residence
In August 2023, Queer Britain collaborated with Wikimedia UK to host a Wikimedian in Residence project. From August to November, Evie Moore worked on improving content on Wikipedia and related…
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Residency at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Since early 2023 I have been working with the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) and GLAM-E Lab in Exeter as their Wikimedian in Residence. These so-called ‘mini’ residencies are a…
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Celebrating The Mixed Museum residency as it comes to an end
The Wikimedian in Residence partnership continued at the Mixed Museum from January to March 2023, building on the initial stage of the residency that began in September. This blog posting…
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VocalEyes and Wikidata: Making accessibility information easily available
VocalEyes plays a vital role in making arts and heritage accessible for blind and visually impaired, D/deaf, hard of hearing, and neurodivergent visitors. They do this in a range of…
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March is Wiki micro-internship month at The Mixed Museum and Manar al-Athar
In March 2023, university students from Queen Mary University London and the University of Oxford will learn how to edit Wikipedia and upload to Wikimedia Commons as a part of…
