GLAM/Newsletter/December 2024/Contents/Argentina report

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue XII, December 2024

Argentina report

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Librarian activities

During the past months, the Culture and Open knowledge program developed a series of activities specially meant for librarians. A group of wikimedians from Córdoba province carried out a series of workshops that resulted on 25 people uploading more than 50 pictures and documents related to their popular libraries. In November, due to the Open Access Week and the Public University's Night, a volunteer from the Universidad Nacional de Lanús proposed an online session to add information about libraries to Universities articles in Wikipedia. 48 professionals joined the meeting, and improved at least 15 articles with updated information and images of the libraries.

These two experiences were very powerful for promoting friendly spaces for people interested in editing, as they were lead by volunteers with different levels of experience that could help make better edits and uploads. We would like to give special thanks to eneroenlaciudad, Monarufino, Jmmuguerza, Aguzado and Noked for giving support to each other and to other volunteers, advocating for open knowledge.

Huaraz Conference

We were invited to participate in "Weaving Networks of Knowledge in Latin America: Conference on Climate Justice, Indigenous Voices, and Wikimedia Platforms" held in Huaraz, Peru, during November 8-10, 2024. Angie Cervellera and Tibisay Zamora Aray proposed "Chujwen. Debates around open access and indigenous knowledge". This session presented a framework to understand open access and decolonization from an indigenous perspective, exploring the consecuences of freely sharing traditional or ancestral knowledge. Problematic aspects of open access were discussed with attendees, such as the representation of communities, their bodies and their memories as well as the concept of intellectual property vs. collective property; but we also explored its potential, such as the use of technologies -in this case, Wikimedia projects- to promote the indigenous voice in environmental activism. Finally, considering “Cartografías Abiertas: Qom, Wichí, Moqoit” project as a success story, we thought together good practices related to working with indigenous peoples and respectfuly access and share their knowledge.

On the other hand, Angie and Giovanna Fontenelle planned a two-moment session. Firstly, a more conceptual moment, with the presentation of the publication “Actions and exhibitions to decolonize museum narratives”, prepared by TyPA Foundation and Wikimedia Argentina, where the Medellín Museum of Art (Colombia), the Casa Museum Ricardo Rojas (Argentina) and the Textile Museum of Oaxaca (Mexico) share experiencies on how museological narratives are redefined through work along with indigenous communities. In the second moment of this session, participants are invited to write down succesful and challenging experiencies so as to co-create a map of good decolonizing practices. At this point, we asked participants to carry out this exercise considering Wikimedia projects and how they could be considered as tools for indigenous communities to generate and re share their own knowledge.

Sharing and reusing Archivos en Vigilia

Angie Cervellera from the Culture and Open Knowledge program was invited, along with Laura Casareto, to talk about the Archivos en Vigilia virtual activity that takes place every March since 2021. This was the last session of Martes de Open Glam, organized by Wikimedistas de la UNLP. Archivists and other professionals -some of them had participated from the virtual activity of March- joined in person and learnt how to add images and documents that were uploaded within the Archivos en Vigilia campaign. This resulted on 17 articles with new images and 64 structured data added to documents. It was a very meaningful activity, because participants had to do research and explore the documents to add the correct data, as well as choosing the best article to place the archive.

Digitization project: second semester updates

The final report for 2024 will be available by the end of january. First semester report can be see here.

Academia Argentina de Letras

This year we uploaded 66 books from authors like: Cisneros, de Estrada, de Vedia, Hidalgo de Cisneros, Holmberg, Payró, Rawson, Oronio, Fontanella, Meyer Arana, de Moxo y de Francoli, Ceppi, Mitre, Funes, and others. Reaching 1500 digitized books so far.

The MassViews Tool show us 57.777 pageviews for 2024 in commons. More statistic at: https://glamwikidashboard.wmcloud.org/AARLT

Find more at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Uploaded_via_Campaign:AAL

Academia Nacional de la Historia

We uploaded 23 books (50 ready for it) and 961 historical documents (all uploads were made with OpenRefine).

The MassViews Tool show us 23.120 pageviews for 2024 in commons. More statistic at: https://glamwikidashboard.wmcloud.org/ANHRA

Find more at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Academia_Nacional_de_la_Historia_de_la_Rep%C3%BAblica_Argentina

Archivo General de la Nación

We finally started uploading batches from the digitization work we did at the Archivo General de la Nación, accounting for 2 of 20 boxes or around 800 photographs. This is a collection of photographs belonging to the editorial dossiers of the magazine "Caras de Caretas" published in Argentina between 1898 y 1939. We expect to finish the rest of the batches around February.