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This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue V, May 2024

Brazil report

Open licensing guide from Midiateca Capixaba; Activities in Rio de Janeiro; First batch from LabDOC; New batch from NeuroMat; Hercule Florence photowalk

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The main challenge of Open knowledge is not technical, but legal. The widespread use of digital technologies, which allow the agile circulation of all kinds of media, has been accompanied by aggressive tactics to expand intellectual property. Contradictorily, as we have developed our technical capacity to circulate information, we have found ourselves increasingly legally prevented from doing so in a digital environment that is increasingly controlled by large platforms. The situation is paradoxical: on the one hand, forms of life and creation compromised by parasitic business models; on the other hand, copyright rules that stifle sharing and uses of social interest, particularly of public collections.

- João Alexandre Peschanski (Wiki Movimento Brasil) and Mariana Valente (InternetLab)

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This was the starting issue for an one-year-project focused on the institutions gathered under the Midiateca Capixaba platform: Arquivo Público do Estado do Espírito Santo; Biblioteca Pública do Espírito Santo; Conselho Estadual de Cultura (CEC); Fundo de Cultura do Estado do Espírito Santo; Galeria Homero Massena; Museu de Arte do Espírito Santo Dionísio Del Santo; Museu do Colono; Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado do Espírito Santo; Palácio Anchieta; Rádio Espírito Santo; and TV Educativa do Espírito Santo.

The first step was visiting them and interviewing their directors in order to understand the content and the licensing status of their collections. The information collected during these visits guided the production of this open licensing guide for the daily use of all the State GLAM institutions. The final goal is to help GLAM staff make all the state collections available under open licenses at online platforms (especially Midiateca Capixaba and Wikimedia projects).

InternetLab and Wiki Movimento Brasil (WMB) worked together on writing this document which main topics are:

Central definitions on copyright law in Brazil
FAQ: time limits, orphan works, works of art, limitations and exceptions
Making collections available digitally
Wikimedia in free digital dissemination
Collaborative dissemination
Measuring the media outreach
Expanding the use of your collections

This guide is a pioneer document in the field of copyright because it tries to translate the laws to a more friendly language thinking of the various Brazilian professionals who are responsible for the conservation and diffusion of GLAM collections. It can serve as a basis for other countries that want to carry out a similar project, with a view to facilitating the work of GLAM institutions that want to open up their collections. At a national level, this study may be of interest to GLAM institutions, law schools and university students from different areas. It will certainly be of interest to other Wikimedia affiliates and open knowledge institutions.

Download the Open licencing guide from Midiateca Capixaba (only in Portuguese).

You may see more about the elaboration of this Guide HERE (only in Portuguese).

Activities in Rio de Janeiro

On March 28th of this year, we had a Walking Tour, the first meeting of Wikimedians from Rio de Janeiro organized by Wiki Movimento Brasil. The activity included a coffee break, a conversation with restorers and museologists, and a guided visit to the Eva Klabin House Museum, our GLAM-Wiki partner. Throughout the event, we exchanged experiences, learned about historical and artistic facts, and built new friendships.

On May 24th, we returned to the museum with a new task: to disseminate Brazilian historical collections through the world's largest encyclopedia, Wikipedia. To this end, we invited Wikimedians and newcomers to participate in the Eva Klabin Collection Editathon, where we improved the dissemination of knowledge about a set of art pieces from the museum's collection that were made available in Wikimedia Commons under open licenses. You can find the results of the activity in this dashboard.

See the Casa Museu Eva Klabin's GLAM page and the uploaded media.

First batch from LabDOC

Laboratório de Conservação de Documentos is a lab that aims to preserve and build a digital archive for paper documents relating to the architecture and landscape of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) Seropédica Campus. The main objective of the project is to create and coordinate actions that contribute to expanding free access to documents about the history and memory of the university. This first batch brings to Wikimedia platforms 44 images of architectural drawings of some buildings and details.

This unique neo-colonial style architectural began to be built in 1939 on lands of the former Imperial Farm of Santa Cruz. The urban plan is composed by a landscaped park of great scenic beauty designed by Reynaldo Dieserger. The indoor decoration includes painted tile panels designed by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva in 1943. Some of these buildings are listed as State Cultural Heritage: the Rector's Central Building and Residence, the headquarters of the Chemistry Institute, the headquarters of the Biology Institute, and another two buildings.

See the Laboratório de Conservação de Documentos' GLAM page and the uploaded media.

New batch from NeuroMat

RIDC NeuroMat (Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics) is a long time GLAM partner of Wiki Movimento Brasil and it keeps supporting several other Wiki partnerships, GLAM projects, events, edit-a-thons, and technical training. And, of course, registering these events and uploading images and videos to Wikimedia Commons. Now you may find 86 new media files from this great partner, as the shown below: The dynamical process in neurosystems and the role of mathematics in biology, with Gilles Laurent, from the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.

This interview was part of the project called "Pathways to the 2023 IHP thematic program Random Processes in the Brain", a preparatory process for the conference "Random Processes in the Brain: From Experimental Data to Math and Back", held at the Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, from February 27 to April 7, 2023. The goal of the preparatory process was to frame and pave research practices among the participants of the IHP thematic program that will eventually emerge during the actual conference in Paris.

The project was supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the University of São Paulo (USP).

See the CEPID NeuroMat's GLAM page and the uploaded media.

Hercule Florence photowalk

On May 18, 2024, in the city of Campinas, São Paulo, the 24th Hercule Florence Photo Walk was held, in a Special Edition for the inauguration of the Hercule Florence Room at the Museum of Image and Sound (MIS). Participants walked through the city center, passing historic landmarks such as the bust of Hercule Florence in Largo São Benedito and Hercule Florence's old house at the city's ground zero.

The Hercule Florence Photography Festival is inspired by the isolated invention of photography in Brazil, in Campinas, by Hercule Florence in 1833.

Antoine Hercule Romuald Florence (February 29, 1804 – March 27, 1879) was a Monegasque-Brazilian painter and inventor, known as the isolate inventor of photography in Brazil, three years before Daguerre (but six years after Nicéphore Niépce), using the matrix negative/positive, still in use. According to Kossoy, who examined Florence's notes, he referred to his process, in French, as photographie in 1834, at least four years before John Herschel coined the English word photography.

See the Instituto Hercule Florence's GLAM page and the uploaded media.

See some of the pictures taken during the photowalk.

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