Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024/Submissions/Heritage Guard Network
| ID : 14 | The Heritage Guard Network: Figuring Out How to Crowdsource Digitization of Cultural and Natural Heritage Under Threat | ||
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| Author(s): Mehman, Eric, Natalia, Olesia | Username(s): Mehman (WMGE), Eric Luth (WMSE), Natalia Ćwik (WMPL), OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA) | Type of submission: lecture | |
| Affiliation: Wikimedia Sverige, Wikimedia Polska, Wikimedia UG Georgia, Wikimedia Ukraine | Theme(s): Community Engagement, Partnerships, Technology, Legal | ||
| Abstract:
Cultural and natural heritage across the world is in danger – due to factors such as war, climate change, theft or simply decay, and a lack of resources. What is the role of the Wikimedia movement in safeguarding our heritage digitally? The Heritage Guard Network will briefly present its preliminary findings from a project aiming to study exactly this and invite the audience for a conversation on how to make use of the findings and build new opportunities ahead. The proposed project aims to compile knowledge and develop best practices for how to use Wikimedia platforms to digitally preserve and make available to the public cultural and natural heritage in danger. The project will create a large possibility for building partnerships, both within and outside the Wikimedia community, to this end. |
Slides: coming soon | ||
| Level of advancement: medium | |||
| Special requirements: no | |||
| How will this session be beneficial for the communities in the region of CEE?
CEE communities can learn more about our project and partnerships around the protection of cultural and natural heritage through crowdsourcing. We will also provide information about grants from the Swedish Institute for the CEE region. | |||
Interested participants[edit]
(register below and ask your questions now to the session organiser)