GLAM/Newsletter/June 2024/Contents/Indonesia report
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2024 Half-a-year in Review
After a year of absence in reporting GLAM Indonesia activities, we are happy to share our 2024 half a year in review. Here they are:
Celebration of Indonesian Public Domain Day 2024
This January, Wikimedia Indonesia and the Goethe-Institut Jakarta collaborated to celebrate Indonesian Public Domain Day 2024 with a series of discussions on “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence.”
These discussions brought various advancements and improvements offered by AI tools that will be utilized in assisting human work, including for GLAM institutions, to the fore. On the other hand, unclear legal regulations and policies pose a challenge to using AI in Indonesia. As users, we should be ethically aware and responsible, especially when creating works incorporating data or works from other sources. We would also need to reconsider who would benefit the most and who would not from the usage of AI tools, as well as how to make its usage more sustainable and equitable.
Read our full report here.
Wikisource Competitions in Indonesian and Javanese language
We held two Wikisource competitions (edit-a-thons/proofreading contests) in the languages of Indonesia: Indonesian Wikisource, and Javanese Wikisource both in March 2024.
Within two weeks, the Javanese Wikisource Competition transcribed and proofread 20 Javanese books with Latin letters and 13 books in Javanese script with a total of 3,376 pages.
The Indonesian language Wikisource competition has way more gigantic statistics because it was participated not only by Javanese speakers but also by Indonesian speakers nationwide. By the end of the competition, 69 old Indonesian language books were successfully proofread with a total of 14,020 pages.
GLAM-Wiki Month 2024
Celebrating International Museum Day in May, we present GLAM-Wiki Month or Bulan Wiki GLAM. This is our initial activity dedicated to enriching GLAM Indonesia content on the Wikimedia projects for a month. It is going to be our annual thematic activity for the following years. Following the ICOM International Museum Day, we focused on organizing events on Museums for Education and Research.
We held a series of events such as GLAM Talks, #1Lib1Ref Campaign, GLAM Challenge on Wikipedia, and Datathon during May 2024.
GLAM Talks
We discuss the role and contribution of museums in the realm of research and education which has become the main role for the museum itself. However, in practice, this role is still less felt, especially in museums in Indonesia. In some cases, museums are also lacking in communicating the information and knowledge stored by these institutions to the wider public. Information about museum collections seems to stop in the museum buildings themselves.
#1Lib1Ref campaign
The #1Lib1Ref campaign invites librarians, researchers, book lovers, contributors to Wikimedia projects, and knowledge lovers to add references to articles on Wikipedia related to GLAM institutions.
GLAM Challenge on Wikipedia
The GLAM Challenge on Wikipedia was an edit-a-thon that challenged participants to write articles on museums in Indonesia. Over 14 days, 19 participants have taken part in the GLAM Challenge on Wikipedia 2024. A total of 203 articles have been submitted via a tool named Fountain.
Here is the list of participants and their submitted articles.
Datathon
Datathon is an edit-a-thon on Wikidata on a certain topic. In this GLAM Wiki Month, participants were challenged to edit the data of museum in Indonesia
