Public Domain Day Belgium 2023 highlights open data initiatives

Public Domain Day
Belgium 2023
An English logo of the
2022/23 Public Domain
Day in Poland. Cienkamila,
slightly edited by odder,
CC BY SA 3.0

Housekeeping
Social handles:
#publiekdomeindag
#jourdudomainepublic
#PublicDomainDay
#openGLAM
Organisations (in order):
@meemoo_be (@sam.donvil & @bartdeelt)
@KADOCKULEUVEN (@FMessens)
@MMP1917 (@DeWouter1)
Agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed : @koenedaele
@kbrbe
@Europeanaeu (@CultureDoug)
@Communia_eu (@Brigitte_Vezina)
KU Leuven: @eozgeyildirim
@GhentCDH (@FienDanniau, @
@coghent (@saarvandeweghe)
@wikimedia_BE (@Geertivp)
● language event: mother
tongue speakers (effectively
dutch & english), slides in
english
● questions during reception
● feel free to post on social
media using the hashtags in
the top right corner

Photos
If you prefer not be
photographed, please take a
seat at the back of the room.
Camera door Alfa Design,
the Noun Project

Program
• 14u - 16u: Public Domain Day Main Event
• 14u - 14u05: introduction - Sam Donvil (meemoo)
• 14u05 - 14u20: How to determine the rights status of objects in your collection? - Bart Magnus (meemoo), Joris
Colla & Fien Messens (ODIS/KADOC-KU Leuven)
• 14u20 - 14u40: Public Domain Day upload showcase
• Experience uploadworkshop 2022 - Wouter De Witte (Passchendaele Museum)
• KCML Architectural drawings - Koen Van Daele & Veroniek Kerckhove (Agentschap Onroerend
Erfgoed)
• Public Domain Day upload KBR - Piet Janssens (KBR)
• 14u40 - 14u50: Five years of the Open GLAM survey – what we know now - Douglas McCarthy (Europeana)
• 14u50 - 15u10: Towards better sharing of cultural heritage - Brigitte Vézina (Creative Commons)
• 15:10 - 15:30: Communia copyright reform policy recommendations - Brigitte Vézina (COMMUNIA) & Emine
Yildirim (KU Leuven)
• 15:30 - 15:45: Use of public domain collections in digital humanities research: “A difficult search for maps in
public domain” - Fien Danniau, Rein Debrulle & Hans Blomme (Ghent Center for Digital Humanities)
• 15:45 - 15:55: Creative reuse of the Collections of Ghent - Saar Vandeweghe & Thijs Temmerman (Coghent)
• 15:55 - 16:00: Wiki Loves Heritage photography contest & call for projects Wikimedian in Residence program -
Geert Van Pamel (Wikimedia België)
• 16u - 17u: reception

The public domain is...
...all the creative works to which no
exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
Those rights may have:
• expired
• be inapplicable.
Other rights may apply:
• neighbouring rights
• privacy rights
• etc.

Why Public Domain Day? - perspective
society at large
• Copyright law gives creators important rights that encourage
creativity and distribution
• But it also ensures that those rights last for a “limited time,” so that
when they expire, works can go into the public domain, where
future authors can legally build upon their creations.
• The Public Domain is the rule, copyright protection is the
exception.
• However, the fact that works are legally available, does not mean
they are also available in a practical sense.

Why Public Domain Day? - perspective heritage
sector
• easiest place to start opening up collections & put in
place an open policy at your institution
• platform to share good practices and advocate
against bad ones
• share experiences / challenges in opening up
collections
• share formats for facilitating (creative) reuse

Public Domain Day in
Belgium (8th edition)
• Previous editions
• 2016: Public domain day, focus Anne Frank (Constant
vzw, KBR, Wikimedia BE, CRIDS, Cinema Nova) +
celebration in the European Parliament (Communia)
• 2017: Public domain day, focus Leon Spilliaert (Constant
vzw, KBR, Wikimedia BE, CRIDS, Cinema Nova, FUNDP
Namur)
• 2018: Public domain day, focus Victor Horta (Constant
vzw, KBR, CRIDS, Cinema Nova, PTTL, Muntpunt,
Mundaneum, Rosa vzw, PACKED vzw)
• 2019: Public domain day: (Constant vzw, KBR, CRIDS,
Cinema Nova, PTTL, Muntpunt, Mundaneum, Rosa vzw,
PACKED vzw)
• 2020: Public domain day, change focus: event for
heritage professionals (KBR, Wikimedia Belgium)
• 2021: Public Domain Day(KBR, Wikimedia Belgium,
meemoo)
• 2022: Public Domain Day (KBR, Wikimedia Belgium,
meemoo, University Library Ghent, Collections of Ghent)
• 2023: Public Domain Day (KBR, Wikimedia Belgium,
meemoo, University Library Ghent)
Public Domain Day Celebration at the European Parliament,
Sebastiaan ter Burg, CC0
Public domain day 2020 Belgium - Flemish art collection, Geertivp,
cc by-sa 4.0

Public Domain in Belgium since 2023
Constant Permeke Paul Cauchie Marie Closset
Paul Saintenoy

Current legal framework poses challenges for working
in an digital (international) environment
Example: currently no consensus on Wikimedia Commons
● PD status in country of origin (ie. BE: 70 yrs + death creator)
● PD status in USA (location servers) (ie. 95 yrs + publishing
date)
Example: Constant Permeke:
• BE: whole oeuvre public domain
• USA: only works before 1928 public domain
Dorp en boogschieting,
1935, Constant Permeke,
Museum voor Schone
Kunsten. Gent.

How to determine the rights status of objects
in your collection?
Bart Magnus (meemoo), Joris Colla & Fien Messens
(ODIS/KADOC-KU Leuven)

Public domain or not?
Object X of my collection is public domain if:
- copyright protection has expired OR
- it was never protected by copyright
Other rights may apply:
• neighbouring rights
• privacy rights
• copyright on photographic reproduction (3D object)
• etc
OpenGLAM community promotes showing this information clearly and
correctly through rights statements, and move away from limiting access or
reuse by claiming copyright
Silar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What do I need to know?
• Who is/are the rightsholder(s)?
• What is their year of death?
If unknown:
• Year of creation
• rightsholder’s year of birth

Author’s death > 70 years
• Moederschap (vrouw uit Oostende) by
Constant Permeke (1886-1952)
• public domain since 1 January 2023

Based on birth date
• Antonius-Laurentius Gillis
• sculptor with work in Royal Museum
of Fine Arts Antwerp
• born in 1797
• death date unknown
• public domain
• Marie Sterckmans
• painter with work in Museum of Fine
Arts Ghent
• born in 1883
• death date unknown
• copyright status unknown

Based on creation date
• Achille Hubert Lefèvre
• visual artist with work in STAM Ghent City Museum
• one of his works was created in 1815
• no birth/death date
• public domain
• M. Dufresne
• ceramist with work in Royal Museums of Art and History
• one of his works was created in 1922
• no birth/death date
• copyright status unknown

Public domain tool
try to automate this process
www.publiekdomeintool.be
(in Dutch)
Martin Bisof mbisof, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

• based on
• your own metadata (type of work, names, birth and death dates of creators,
date of creation)
• Wikidata
• start from a csv export with collection data
• validate the proposed matches to creators on Wikidata
• output:
• enriched csv (birth and death dates from Wikidata added, public domain works
identified, external identifiers added, public domain date)
• collection data added to Wikidata -> help for other heritage organisations
Public domain tool

date of
creation
place of
creation
creator date of
birth
date of
death
creator
type
copyright
status
copyright
representative

What happens on Wikidata?
• PDT bot adds creator data to Wikidata
• online visibility increases
• LOD in practice
• help your colleagues, share your data
• Bots add copyright status to creator items on
Wikidata
• Dashboards on Wikidata

Copyright status creators Belgian CHIs in
Wikidata (Feb 21 vs Feb 22)

Importance of external authorities
• Identifying creators
• Machine-readable data to automate processes
• Data enrichment
For example: ODIS

ODIS? What’s in a name?
• Online contextual database on the
history of civil society
• Broad partnership of heritage and
research organisations
• Interuniversity cooperation
• Nearly 300.000 records on
organisations, persons, events,
buildings, archives, periodicals
• ODIS public catalogue:
• App. 45% of the ODIS content
• CC BY-NC-SA (Wikidata = CC0)

ODIS 2022-2027
• Grant for medium scale research infrastructure of the Research Foundation
Flanders (FWO)
• Supervisors: prof. dr. Kim Christiaens and dr. Peter Heyrman
(KADOC-KU Leuven), Jo Rademakers (LIBIS)
• Five ‘yards’: (1) mission and goals; (2) data input and quality care; (3)
participation and volunteers; (4) communication; (5) technical
development
• Technical development:
• New ‘Linked Data authority database’ (Virtuoso triple store)
• Tools for data processing, analysis and visualisation (e.g. network analysis, geographical
tools)
• Tools for interoperability, interconnectivity, discoverability
• Statistical data warehouse
• Use of ODIS data in the Public Domain Tool = interesting test case

ODIS → Wikidata
• Around 31.000 persons
• Authority data and data on
occupations of released
biographical records with
date of death > 70 years
STRUCTURED RDF
DATA

Cleaning with OpenRefine
Creation of specific properties (e.g. godsdienstleraar)
Reconciliation (linking to existing items in Wikidata) is
time consuming
Bug Julian and Gregorian calendar
Bug “to-date” function (e.g. 05-02-1903 → 1903-05-02)
Some statements (e.g. religious name) only can be
added to an existing item
Ingest QuickStatements
Bug in “batch mode” that creates triples and
duplicates → never run batch mode
“Normal run” mode is slow
Limit of lines per ingest. Adding 31.000 = around
40 different batches
Merge duplicates and triples

What’s next?
• Guarantee expertise does not get lost
• Ingest more ODIS data in Wikidata and enrich existing items
• Example: Gustave Corthouts
• Stimulate reuse of data

Showcases by institutions who provided access
to public domain collections in 2022 and 2023
Sam Donvil (meemoo)

Uploadworkshop: Print cabinet Musea Bruges
De steniging van de heilige Stefanus (tekening), Michelangelo (tekenaar), circa
1525 - circa 1530, Musea Brugge, 2022.GRO0327
Zegenende priester (tekening), Jacques
Jordaens (tekenaar), circa 1650, Musea Brugge,
2022.GRO0324.II

Uploadworkshop: Print cabinet Musea Bruges
•

Uploadworkshop: Passchendaele Museum
Our museum has plans:
- > towards an ‘open’ museum
Why?
● self-induced underrepresentation
● 2020-2023: digitalization boost
● relevancy post centenary
Goals:
● gain experience
● learn best practices for our case
● integrate into the workflow
Blueprint of Zonnebeke Chateau by Theo Raison (1869-1937)

Uploading what?
● “Personalia”: objects relating a person
● highly heterogeneous collection:
○ from memorabilia to maps
○ from pictures to pocket watch
○ etc.
= scans of “works” and object photographs
obstacles:
● mass produced items (i.e. medals)
● notability (John Doe v.s. Picasso)
● relevancy (i.e. personal letters)
Medal, campaign (AM 800702-4).jpg by Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki
Paenga Hira)is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
we are still digitizing ours (late Feb. - May 2023)

Memorial card for Geoffrey W.C. Knight (1895-1917)
Ieper, de Menensepoort oeg30393 foto4 2015-08-09 12.39.jpg by Michielverbeek is
licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Postcard sent by Frank A. Brown (1889-1917)

KCML Architectural Drawings
Koen Van Daele, Veroniek Kerckhove (Onroerend Erfgoed)

Royal Commission for Monuments and Landscapes (KCML/CRMS)
● Architectural drawings 1850-1950
● Advisory capacity for public buildings
● Often consulted by owners, researches and restoration architects
https://id.erfgoed.net/afbeeldingen/421309

Attention! Fragile!
Digitisation in 2021

Metadata and rights in 2022
● Technical metadata
● Depicted object in inventory of
architectural heritage
● Architect or designer
● Date of creation
● Date of submission
Public Domain IF:
○ Has creator:
■ Death of creator < now - 70
○ Else:
■ Creation date < now - 125
Undecided IF: no (creator or creation date)

Publication in 2022-2023
● 2022/12: Oost-Vlaanderen (1526/1945)
● 2023/1: Antwerpen (1013/1372)
● 2023/2: West-Vlaanderen (1645/1956)
● 2023/3: Limburg (913/1121)
● 2023/4: Vlaams-Brabant (703/1208)
● 2023/5: Brussel (417/927)
● 2023/6: Mission Dhuicque (0(10)/274)
6.220 drawings added to Public Domain

Have a look!
https://beeldbank.onroerenderfgoed.be/images?sort=-dates.original&type=plan+of+tekening
Questions?
https://www.onroerenderfgoed.be/ni
euws/nieuw-de-beeldbank-plannen-
van-de-kcml-en-mission-dhuicque
archief@onroerenderfgoed.be

Wiki upload
Concours_international_de_chant_densemble
Exposition_Internationale_de_Liege_Sport
La_gravure_cercle_de l'etude
1000_francs_or_200_belgas
Selection KBR catalog, Wikidata, others
Selection by curator of under-catalogued numismatic objects by
Belgian artists (sculptors, designers) deceased in 1952:
- Adelin Salle, Pirart René, Emile Vloors
- Cataloging and digitisation in KBR (2022)
- Wikidata items + Commons image donation (xx works)
- Categories / findability / reuse

Wiki upload
Selection KBR catalog, Wikidata, others
by publication date of under-catalogued digitizing sound archives by author/publisher Lodewijk
Mortelmans, Alexander De Taye deceased in 1952 + date of performance
- black shellack discs (1890-1950) speed 78 rpm
- Cataloging and digitisation by MEMNON and KBR (2018-2022)
Kindje_wat_ben_je_toch_zacht,_compositi
on_by_Lodewijk_Mortelmans

Wiki upload
Selection by curator of under-catalogued etching prints and drawings by three Belgian artists
(painters) deceased in 1952: Constant Permeke, Paul Cauchie, Albert Daenens, Leon
Bartholomé, Daeye, Hippolyte, Paul Collet
drawing_by_Constant_Permeke, Concours
affiches by Cauchie,
The_dictator_no.11,_print_by_Albert_Daenens,
Atelier_de_modistes_print_by_Bartholom_Leon

Wiki side actions
https://opac.kbr.be/LIBRARY/doc/AUTHORITY/14131364
https://www.kbr.be/nl/publiek-domein-gr/
Bouillon,_map_from_Cosyn_guides,_Bouillon,_Lower_course_of_the_Semois
https://ign-ngi.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewe
‘Wiki-scape’ sub-working group
digital data strategy KBR
• glamwikidashboard.org/RYLLBB
• enrichment of the authorities of KBR
via match wikimedia-commons
(search done via ISNI)
• georeferencing in Wikimaps Warper
• volunteer upload the authority data
to wikidata in Febr. 2023. 170,000 KBR
IDs to Wikidata. Links from the authors
in the KBR catalogue via the ISNIs to
Wikidata.

Five years of the Open GLAM survey
– what we know now
Douglas McCarthy (Europeana)

How many ‘Open GLAMs’ are there in the world?
How many in Belgium? 󰎐

Since 2018, the Open GLAM survey has tracked how GLAMs make open access
data – whether digital objects, metadata or text – available for re-use.
bit.ly/OpenGLAMsurvey & https://archive.org

Wikidata query: https://w.wiki/4u32
Open GLAM today

How many ‘Open GLAMs’ are there in the world? 1481
How many in Belgium? 󰎐 34

Open GLAM in Belgium 󰎐
bit.ly/OpenGLAMsurvey & https://archive.org

Dive deeper into the survey
● Survey data:
○ https://bit.ly/openglamsurvey
○ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki
/Q73357989
○ https://archive.org
● Analysis and insight:
○ https://douglasmccarthy.com

Open GLAM is making progress…

… but we’re not there yet.

Thank you.
@CultureDoug
linkedin.com/in/douglaskmccarthy
douglasmccarthy.com

Towards better sharing of cultural heritage
Brigitte Vézina (Creative Commons) & Emine Yildirim (KU
Leuven)

TOWARDS BETTER SHARING OF
CULTURAL HERITAGE
A CALL TO ACTION TO POLICYMAKERS
Public Domain Day Belgium
15 February 2023
The Artistʼs Garden at Saint-Clair by Henri-Edmond Cross, The Metropolitan Museum; Public
Domain
Brigitte Vézina (Creative Commons)
Emine Yildirim (KU Leuven)
Maarten Zeinstra (Creative Commons Nederland)

Background and Context
What challenges does cultural heritage face?
Climate change, health crises, armed conflicts…
and copyright?

Five key actions
1. Protect the public domain from erosion
2. Reduce the term of copyright protection
3. Legally allow necessary activities of cultural
heritage institutions
4. Shield cultural heritage institutions from liability
5. Ensure respect, equity, and inclusivity

1. Protect the public domain from erosion
● Faithful reproductions of public domain materials
must not be encumbered by technical, financial,
legal or contractual restrictions.
● Oﬀer a mechanism to challenge and contest an
objectʼs status as rightfully in the public domain

2. Reduce the term of copyright protection
● Reduce the term of protection.
● Render protection dependent on registration (or
other formality).
● Resist proposals to extend the terms of copyright
any further than they currently are.
● Make it as easy as possible to determine works as
orphaned.

3. Legally allow necessary activities of cultural heritage
institutions
● Enable cultural heritage institutions to reproduce and
make copyright protected heritage available for use
and reuse by the public for noncommercial purposes.
● Permit all necessary activities that allow users to
make use of heritage for non-commercial purposes
and to use heritage to participate in public discourse.

4. Shield cultural heritage institutions from liability
● Remove liability for cultural heritage institutions
acting in good faith.
● Create a safe harbor to allow cultural heritage
institutions to legally carry out their activities

5. Ensure respect, equity, and inclusivity
● consider additional legal, ethical or contractual
restrictions that may govern the conditions of access,
use and reuse;
● access and reuse restrictions might be justified for
ethical reasons;
● engage and liaise with source communities, and
● clearly communicate and educate users about the
terms of use and reuse.

COMMUNIA’s 20 recommendations for
the public domain & copyright reform
Brigitte Vézina (COMMUNIA)

Use of public domain collections in digital humanities
research: “A difficult search for maps in public domain”
Fien Danniau, Hans Blomme & Rein Debrulle
(UGent Center for Digital Humanities)

Company, Soenen en Piscador (1912), soon on www.GentGemapt.be
Using digital
historical maps

Renewed public interest in historical maps
96

Potential of historical maps for research
GIStorical Antwerp (https://gistorical.uantwerpen.be/)
97

Requirements for researchers
Georeferencing, vectorizing, layering, annotation…
=> access to source file(s) is crucial
98
Georeferencing of historical maps (picture: Allmaps Viewer)

Quality requirements are high(er) => dependent on institutions
99

(Physical and/or online) Publication is (more) often a goal
10
0
Voorlopige versie van het platform Gent Gemapt, 27.01.2023.

Challenges: findability & download
10
1
Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent
Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale
Het Rijksarchief in België

Challenges: findability & download
10
2

Challenges: formalities
- Mails
- Payments, price?
- Contracts
10
3

Challenges: restrictions
- Additional restrictions?
- No clear explanations
- Rights statements are too complicated
- Misleading
- What about geodata?
- Ground control points

Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, STAM Gent, Archief Gent, Huis van Alijn, Industriemuseum, Liberas, AMSAB-ISG, Erfgoedcel Gent

In practice: Ghent Mapped
10
6
Voorlopige versie van het platform Gent Gemapt, 27.01.2023.

10
7
Historical maps of Ghent as
base layers to pin content and
collection items.
Choice of maps:
- Time period
- Cartografic quality
- Findability
- Availability scan
- Use restrictions
From/via:
Geopunt Vlaanderen (7)
Universiteitsbibliotheek (8)
Algemeen Rijksarchief (1)
Stad/archief Gent (2)
12/18 in public domain

Closing thoughts
- Historical maps demand a specific approach (file, quality, publication)
- Public domain doesn’t guarantee availability
- The knowledge and explanations on the use of digital historical maps are
inadequate => confusion
- Challenges of working with historical maps have an impact on decisions of
researchers
=> A more detailed, unambiguous approach is desirable
Can access be made more simple?

Rein Debrulle
Wetenschappelijk medewerker
Ghent Center for Digital
Humanities
E-mail
Rein.Debrulle@ugent.be
www.ugent.be
Universiteit Gent
@ugent
@ugent
Ghent University

Creative reuse of the Collection of Ghent
Saar Vandeweghe & Thijs Temmerman
(Collections of Ghent)

Collections of Ghent
Saar Vandeweghe (Industriemuseum)
Thijs Temmerman (Design Museum Gent)
Constant Montald, Glasraamwand voor
Woning Tackels-Plevoets, Collectie Design
Museum Gent, CC0 1.0
Een meisje op een rode wagen op het
woonwagenterrein, Collectie van de
Gentenaar (Collectie Anneke Six), CC0 1.0
Vierdelige veilleuse,
Collectie
STAM-Stadsmuseum
Gent, CC0 1.0
Visitekaart van papierhandelaar Olin te
Brussel, Collectie Industriemuseum, Public
Domain Mark 1.0
Arnold Vander Haeghen, Dansend paar
op het strand, Blankenberge, Collectie
Huis van Alijn, Public Domain Mark 1.0
Tekening: opstand gevel (uit
Bouwaanvraag van Jan
Francq, 1700), Collectie
Archief Gent, Public Domain
Mark 1.0

Collections of Ghent
Museums, heritage institutions and inhabitants of Ghent share their
cultural heritage.
What if civilians, museums and heritage institutions could freely and
creatively use each others objects, documents and stories?

Collections of Ghent / Collectie van de Gentenaar
● funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the European
Urban Initiative (UIA)
● experiment with new solutions for pressing urban challenges
● 4.7 million euro
● june 2020 - june 2023
GOAL
Collections of Ghent wants to investigate how digital and digitised heritage can
contribute to increase social inclusion and the urban cohesion in a city.
> this presentation: how do we publish public domain
collections and how do we stimulate reuse?

-
CoGhent data
GOAL: publish 100.000 heritage objects with high
resolution-images (IIIF) and linked open data

Public domain in the collections
45.000 public domain images
registered in our collection
registration software and digital
asset management system
(DAMS)
> determine copyright status
> free for reuse
> rights statement or Creative
commons licence indicated on
our website, DAMS and in the
IIIF-manifest
Woman with fan, Collection STAM - city museum Gent,
CC0 1.0

Creative reuse
Encourage people to use
data and images
○ Co-creation fund: 13
projects
○ Hackathon @ STAM
15/10/2022: 120
participants
○ GIF-workshops

Co-creation fund
Creative re-use
● documentaries
● podcasts
● participative trajects
● children and young
people
● local residents
● …
Technological
re-use
● Facial
recognition
● AI
● …
Discover all selected projects
Working with your neighbours, your association, organisation, company or school on Ghent's digitised cultural
heritage? Then you have a chance of financial support through the Co-creation Fund. The Fund supports projects that
use the Collections of Ghent in an innovative way.
The Collections of Ghent provides access to the heritage collections of Ghent's museums and archives in an online data
and image bank. This is part of the general strategy of the City of Ghent concerning open data, in which the City
stimulates the re-use of data and knowledge.
If you make use of Ghent's heritage data in a technological or creative way, you could apply for a financial boost of
2,000 to 20,000 euros.

Co-creation fund: case
Re-Use It
● Re-Use it selects objects from
the Collections of Ghent,
samples patterns in vector
format, redraws parts of the
objects and creates colour
palettes from this eclectic
database
Discover all selected projects
Plateelbakkerij Zuid-Holland, Paar kruikjes 344
met vogel, Collection Design Museum Gent, CC0
1.0

GIF-workshops
Linn Verbeken
Thomas Dumortier
Philip Vanhaelewyn Ellen De Ridder

Try it yourself
GentGIFT competition
(until April 30th)
> all information
> Win a private tour at production
company Fisheye and a 100 euro Ghent
gift voucher
Sara Van Den Berghe
CC-BY- 4.0

CoGhent Festival
2 & 3 June
Vooruit, Gent

WWW.COLLECTIONS.GENT
saar.vandeweghe@stad.gent
thijs.temmerman@stad.gent
This project is financed by the European Fund for Regional Development
through the Urban Innovative Actions initiative (UIA).
@collectievandegentenaar

What is Wikimedia Belgium?
Wikimedia Belgium is a voluntary association, part of the global Wikimedia
community.
We are active with GLAM and education
with the aim of collecting, structuring and disseminating free knowledge.
We collaborate with museum projects, libraries, archives, heritage, local
history and educational institutions.

We are looking for:
• Volunteers in Belgium
• New members; membership is free for active volunteers on Wikimedia
platforms
• Project leaders, trainers and freelancers
• Administrators
Contact us at info@wikimedia.be, also for other questions.
You can also subscribe to our monthly newsletter.

Wikimedian in Residence
Geert Van Pamel (Wikimedia Belgium)

Friends of Wikimedia Belgium fund
You will receive a Belgian tax certificate
for donations of 40 € or more
through the King Baudouin Foundation with tax certificate
IBAN: BE10 0000 0000 0404
Structured communication: 019/1790/00048

Cultural projects
Wikimedia Belgium is looking for cultural institutions willing to describe part of
their collection under a free licence.
Current projects:
• KOERS. Museum van de wielersport
• Amazone. Wikipedia as a tool for gender mainstreaming
These are 6-month projects, with a budget of up to €5,500 where an intern
can gain experience with Wikimedia platforms.

Wiki Loves Heritage award ceremony
Geert Van Pamel (Wikimedia Belgium)

Related events
● 2nd
of March: Wiki Café Serck nv, Antwerp
Collaboration with Industriemuseum, Vlaams
Architectuurinstituut, Universiteit Antwerpen & Wikimedia België
○ website Industriemuseum
○ project page

15/03: Public Domain Uploadworkshop
Do you also want to open up your public domain
collections and present on public domain day next
year?
Workshop with all steps for using openrefine for
uploading data to Wikidata and Wikimedia
Commons and images to Wikimedia Commons
Registration in training calendar on meemoo website
Wikidata Lab XII event, Rodrigo.Argenton, CC BY SA 4.0

Reception with the compliments of
Wikimedia Belgium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXmbWiijG3U

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