 Is it not? Okay. Hello, everybody. Good morning. I am Yolanda Peinsta, chair of Wikimedia Italy, and also lead for the project Empowering Italian Glams, and Dario Crespi at Wikimedia Italy, coordinator for this project. And today we wanted to tell you about this possible strategy, so it's a proposal, to involve all Glams, all museums in the world. I have to admit that I like a project that somehow changed the perspective. This is something that I really enjoy. And we also have some experiences in changing perspectives. So Wikimania is in all areas. We like a disruptive project. We produce 30,000 African contributions to the Wikimedia project. We involve over 100 institutions in share your knowledge. So we have some experiences of doing large-scale projects and do some experimental ones. Also in visual data and on communication campaigns. So why 100,000 museums? Because this is the number of museums around the world. This is the data from UNESCO, annual report. So we're talking about a quite extensive number of institutions. And there are many reasons why the Wikimedia movement can be interested in having them all. So we're talking about disseminating open access. We're talking about producing open content that can be interoperable with our project. It's also a way to trigger openness in a more large way to involve the world, to also trigger diversity. Because of course, if we get institutions from all over the world, we get a more diverse kind of knowledge. And we're talking about existing knowledge. Museums are research institutions, as we know. This was also the earliest definition of ICUM about museums. And they are institutions that are interested in accessibility. So they could be very relevant partners. So at the moment, what we are doing is to work on contacts with museums, but we tend to work on one-to-one relationships with museums. So we negotiate, we make agreements, we make projects with museums, we involve often Wikipedian in residence. This is a very efficient way to work on training, licensing, events, uploads, and it is an efficient system. But on the other hand, it also has some disadvantages. The most important one is that it's not democratic. So it's not possible for all museums to actually enter the system. It costs too much, it's not scalable. There are some cases in which Wikipedian in residence worked with more than one institutions, and also on a territorial basis. So maybe a project with cities. So we have some experiences. But obviously working with 100,000 museums is not possible on a one-to-one basis. Even if it is a plus value, so institutions need a human interface. So the reality is that we always need to have people involved in projects. So we cannot obviously avoid this part. This is a very important one and a very valuable one. But we need to find other ways to involve a bigger number of institutions. So what we propose and what we are actually working on in Italy is to address all institutions at once and to try to create a more democratic system that allows all institutions to have an entry point in our collaboration, in our work. And try to create a system that allows all institutions to receive support. We also need to consider that our projects are not meant for institutions. So you cannot contribute to Wikimedia Commons as an institution. So there are some problems of the system that we need also to take care. We have a legal situation that are different from one country to the other and this is another challenge. So there are many elements that we need to take into account. And of course we need to monitor data and we need people to get involved. So the process that we propose starts with Wikidata. So the idea is let's work on the data of museums on Wikidata. Let's improve those data. Let's make sure that current research existing in this area are uploaded so that we have a database that can be used by us to monitor the situation. We can know what is the digital situation in museums in different countries in different areas of the world. But we can also allow humanities to use the data. So those data is obviously valuable because you create a catalogue of museums for any country. The second step is to create the contact details for those museums. So let's look for email addresses and contacts. This means collaborating with ICOM for example in associating each institution with an address and then contacting them all. So sending mass email to all museums informing them that they can contribute to the Wikimedia Commons. The Wikimedia project. They can have an open access policy and they can also collaborate with the Wikimedia project. Of course this goes with a series of support tools. One is an online forum that allows an institution to upload their content outside the Wikimedia world with authorization. Trainings, a centralized support. And we also design a survey to actually understand why institutions have problems in joining in. And the last step is related to case studies. So to focus on a series of museums that allows us to get into more details and to highlight also difficulties and what is working. So the advantage of this system is that of course we improve Wikidata which is always a good result. That's an obvious one. We produce a data set of contact work that can be used for chapters and other institutions to obviously get better contact with the museum. But also we create a system that is designed for everybody. So that also small institutions can join in. And this kind of project works very well also with networks of institutions. Obviously we need always to take into account the legal situation, the necessity of having to work with people, which is obviously also an advantage. But it obviously requires to coordinate big teams. And also the truth is that an institution that doesn't know what is open access. It takes around two years to actually implement open access. That's the reality of life. But sometimes they're waiting for us. So there are some institutions that were just waiting for you and you arrive and you're just making life easier. And so it takes less long. There are three elements that I want to also highlight in this idea. The first one is that the institution are very different one from the other. And the vast majority of institutions have only one staff member or they're run by volunteers. It's quite shocking to see the majority of museums are very small. And creating a system that allows also very small teams of institutions that maybe don't have digitalized content to participate can be something valuable. Because of course we get a lot of diversity. We get access to institutions that work in different territories that have very different knowledges. So what we targeted was to invite institutions to simply upload around 20 images expecting that they would join with 10. So a very limited number of images that they would release in CC0 with open license. Then we're going to get more into details. But they can join the project just with this little block of images and with the start of an open access policy. Other institution of course they can do more. They can release content websites collections and the biggest institution we expect them to work on a data management plan. So it means that they look at all the documentation they have. They look at how it is really is stored and distributed and they can improve that with open access policies that can make this content more accessible. So this is the second element of the project. We don't look only at digital reproduction of collections, but we look at all the kind of documents that an institution produces. It can be educational material publication catalogs. It can be the panel said they have in the museum's websites. Obviously the research work that museums are asked to do. So not only working on digital reproduction of public domain collections, but a broader spectrum of content. And the last thing we look at the legal issues in Italy. We're quite aware of the problems. We don't know that it's not that easy to upload images of the collection. So all the procedure also took into account the legal aspect and the authorization needed to actually make those upload and to comply with very complex legislation like ours. So the project that we are implementing in Italy is called Empowering Italian Glam's Tutti Musei su Wikipedia, All Museums on Wikipedia. And it is this campaign that we are actually already implementing in Italy. It is a project promoted by Wikimedia Italy. We're doing it in collaboration with ICOM Italy with Creative Commons Italy. So we have also the legal support and with the University of Torino. So they're also doing the research and monitoring of content. And it is co-funded by the Wikimedia Foundation. You'll find all the information about the project and the ongoing reports on Meta. And I leave to Dario to explain a little bit more about that. Yeah, the project consists of three steps for museums. The first is upload about 20 images of the building, the museum building, the collections, but also, as Yonanda said, other kind of materials. Not directly on Wikimedia Commons, but in a repository where we can control what they share with us. So then we can upload them on Commons. All those materials must be CC0. Second step is state the support to open access through an open access policy and other kind of authorization for sharing materials. Third step, descriptive text about the institution, its history, its collections, bibliography and a review of data on Wikidata. Those materials can be used by volunteers on Wikimedia projects to improve articles on Wikipedia, Wikiboyage, etc. Each of these steps can be done with a simple online form. It's now available in English, but it can be translated in every language. And now we have these results after a year of projects. It's a middle-term results. First of all, we created or improved almost 7000 items on Wikidata about Italian museums. And it's the most complete and detailed database about museums in Italy. Also because it is combined with national statistics and data from Wikiglam projects. Then we collected over 4,000 contacts of museums and we sent them emails in March, July 2023. And we plan to send a recall in next September. Well, before the project, almost a thousand museums join Wikilos Monuments in Italy. So they have a passive contribution on the project by granting permission to take photos of their collections. But now we have 105 museums actively involved in sharing materials. And this is a great number because in the past years we have 5, 6, 7 museums a year, now 105. Finally, we have 5 case studies more involved with a larger number of materials. And in a data management plan, for example, Museo Gizintorin shared with us on Commons 6,000 of images of their collection. And other thousands of images will be shared soon. Something that we've been working on is also facilitating the monitoring of those information online. So we have a tool, you find it on data.wikilosmonuments.it that allows also to select Glamsa. And also you can have all the statistics on how images are collected on Wikimedia Commons and the data on Wikidata associated to Glamsa. So this is what happened in Italy in the last year. And we think that it could be an approach that could be applied to other territories. Those are the numbers that UNESCO says we found obviously more museums because the numbers of UNESCO are quite approximate. But it gives an idea of the distribution of museums in the world. So imagining to do a similar project maybe for Africa, for India, for other areas of the world could maybe be an interesting way of testing the system and also contacting many institutions. The project seems very efficient as a communication campaign. It is, we found that also right now in Italy we have a very, a particularly restrictive system of governmental system and choices of the government also in restricting even public domain images, asking for payments on every commercial use of those images. So it's a very harsh period for us, but the positive element that we highlight is that open access become really something that our institution are very eager about. So providing a solution could be something that maybe can be promoted.