 Hello, everyone. Good morning. So I am Rémi Gerbet. I am the executive director of Wikimedia France and this morning I would like to share with you a project that we have just taught this year and this project is about mobilized cultural institution who are engaged into a clear policy of open content and participating on Wikimedia project. So let's go now, a little bit of context. We are talking of open content, just a very short definition. So we are talking about online publication and availability under open licenses of cultural and heritage content. We have no restriction on reuse for internet users, so images must be reusable for a variety of use. Like many and many affiliates for many years, we develop these data zones, we develop partnerships with several cultural institutions and trying to training a person who are working in this institution to be more capable to contribute on Wikimedia project. But we, like Italians, people just before me, we also have some complication in France to have some very lower regulation, supporting open sharing on Wikimedia project. First of all, we have a law in 2015, so about a law who, yes, put some exception for cultural sectors, but still, cultural institutions that digitize works of art may impose royalties, so maybe institutions now have a digitization process, but people should pay if they want to access to good quality of images. And several laws after that, there is some incitation to share data, share content, but it still remains at the institutional level to decide if they want to concrete, engage into an open access policy, and there's no very national law to support it. And so in 2022, Wikimedia France developed a national report about open content in French GLAM, with an external agency, so we realized a very large survey, some interview to better understand what are the blocks in some several institutions, and what we can maybe develop to help institutions to go into a more open access, open content policy. So now we still have in France some very bigger and major cultural institutions, maybe like the Louvre Museum, it's still not open at all, and we are still struggling with this kind of incision or Musée d'Orsay, and very small institutions who are much more proactive in it. And there is also this kind of, you know, when the bigger institutions in France start doing something, so several smaller institutions want to do the same thing, but yeah, no, this is not quite good for now. And there is still so many things we can block people, for example, when we talk about open content, open access, or this is English words, they're so strange. What does it mean really? So there is also some kind of, yeah, worried about it. And people who want to engage with a project, there is also always this fear that we will send that, yeah, but we will lose control of our matter, you know, those kind of reactions. So I'll just talk a bit about it, so we can, yeah, so this year we start to thinking about, maybe we could, we should much more encourage and say thank you to institutions who already start really improved content on Wikimedia project and have a real policy to do it. So we are thinking about maybe we can create our own label, because maybe in France and in other countries, some things that people like it, and especially institutions, yeah, you know, when you can put on your website, a small logo, you say, yeah, I'm proud of it. So we are thinking about it and we create this label with some partners like Creative Commons, of course, and some external agency in France were very involved into this field. So how we did it? So we create a candidacy process. So any current institution in France could apply and we receive 18 applications for 2023. So first of all, institutions who want to apply should start by, I just want to move to the charter. Yeah, first of all, before making a candidacy, institutions should sign a charter. Why do we do that? Because we want, we would like to be sure that people who candidates to the process are really supported by their institution or their municipalities, for example, with the benefit institution, because it is also possible because we know many people who contribute to Wikimedia project working on museum, and we want to be sure that if the museum candidacy, it was very uninstitutional, wants to be part of this process. So first of all, the museum or the collectivity have to sign this charter. So sometimes it takes, it takes some time because it may sometimes need to vote in the city. But this charter just reminds the main principle and value of Wikimedia project. So a centered person model, we are agreed to share our content on open licenses and etc. So when this charter is signed, then institutions can share their documents. And of course, to evaluate this, we had a jury of seven members composed by Wikimedians and some Glam partners who are very involved into this process. And we decided to have two reporters by file. So when we receive this candidacy, two people from this jury just take care of a few files and have to check if information inside these documents are true or not. Main difficulty that we have in two cases, we need to ask more questions to Glam. So there is some lack in the form. So this is something that we have to correct for next year. And sometimes two reporters did not agree to interpret the documents and what shouldn't have done. So it is necessary to vote to define this. And sometimes, yeah, this deadline postponed because, you know, difficulties to gather glamification charter signatures. So sometimes you have to go back to the regional authority and not the local authority. So yeah, so we have some delay because of it. But after all, so we decided to develop three levels of certifying. So the bronze, the silver and the gold level. And I will very be quick on it, but to understand that to apply for the bronze level, you have to feel like two main indicators. So these are mandatory and, of course, the first one is to adopt open licenses and to have a clear communication about your policy. And then you have some optional indicators that you have to and you have to choose one of them to just have the bronze level. So you have to maybe you can upload content of Wikimedia comments on Wikidata. You can organize some edits on a project by people who are working on inside the institution, you can decide to organize and is that on our big Wikimedia events. So yeah, you also have to choose one, just one. And you have the two mandatory indicators. Of course, when you move to the silver level, it's much more complicated. So there is much more look after the quality of the images that you that you're open. So you don't. So we want very high definition images in the silver level. And of course, we really would like to see inside the job description of people inside the institution that this is something already planned to contribute on Wikimedia projects. So you have to be on on job description of some person inside the institution. And you also have some optional indicators too. And you also have to choose one. And when it's gold, of course, it's all mandatory. You have to feel all the all the indicators. So this first edition, we certified 16 institution in France. And we gather all the decision in the National Institute of History of Art in Paris, in Ipro when we organize our digital and cultural days. So it's very a journey dedicated to professional. So we have one hundred and twenty entities this meeting. And during this meeting, we discern the label to the institution. But on the 16th, we have nine glums in bronze. So you just have a small list here. And this is a photo where a person of institution receives as a bit of paper with the label, five glums in silver. And you can have also some some testimony here. Or people will just say that this label. Oh, sorry, this label also helps us to convince the co-workers on boards that all work with your project and open access are important. This is something that I really appreciate in this day, that people who are coming on the scene to receive the label. It's just not the director of institutions. So it's many, many times it's it's our allies institution for many years who try and try again to organize things in some institution, and this is the day where they are on light and say, thanks to you, your institution receive a label. And on and on the public, you also have people coming from the French Ministry of Culture. So it was very, very important for this person that they are all work for many years are finally be recognized and publicly recognized. So that was that was very, very cool. So five glum in silver and we have two glums in gold directly. So for people will know, well, the French situation is not to surprise the institution, because in the institution we have very important mediums working inside this institution. So that's why that's why we have gold directly. And so, yeah, so you have the same kind of testimony about we are really happy, we are really happy that finally there is a project that can either choice or investment and sometimes out of office hours. So, yeah, so what next after this first edition? So you can you can see how it's shown with the label eyes. Just put the label on their website, for example, that's just just a few example, how they be proud to be to be recognized. So on this is for the Museum of France. So you just see on the website that they just had it a section about the label you see here Museum of Toulouse on the website. Also, they put the label on the law of the website. And here for the show about the rain. So just just just just near the European funds, you see the label open church here. So that's that's good. And many you also have a specific page to describe the label and why the institution have been recognized. And this is a local archival of Lyon, they also put the label. So to be continued next year, what will happen? So this is the first test this year. So of course, we will continue because we see many people very happy about this project. First of all, we have some growth here in our jury, but now we plan to develop a mentorship process with Wikimedia Volunteer for institution Warren Browns to help them to go to silver and also mentorship for institution Go Need Silver to support them to go to gold. So we think that something could be very interesting, especially for volunteers to be the mentors of the Kujo institution and BGOB, the point of contact to help to help to reach another level for the label. We will also try to maybe simplify sometimes the application because we have some delays this year. So we will rethink about it and also I think the next step it's also to bring into this cooperation and label maybe over partners like Ecom was already involved in Italy, but maybe we will try to also have it in this process in France. And because we know the first ministry of culture is very interesting with this label, maybe try to cut them and get also the initial culture inside this project. So the calendar for next fall for the year is coming. So in April this year is the first edition. So we will opening the application in October this year. And we will hope to have the next levelized institution at the French Digital Day in 2024. And I think we have some time for question. Yeah, thank you. I have another mic. OK. Well, thank you. Very interesting. Thank you for sharing this. Yes, we are like Latin American here with lots of questions, by the way. But no, my my question has to do with do you need a big like a big community of volunteers to support this? Or how do you manage like internally to to give so much support to all these institutions to to get these facts or. Well, that's a question. Thank you for the question. We don't have so much volunteer involved this year. There's two volunteers in the jury for very being capacity to evaluate the contribution of institution directly on making their project. And of course, we ask some voluntary feedback if we know that this kind of volunteer already works with the institution if they already are going to do that and so to have feedback. So how does it how how what's happened? Does it feel good, etc. This is one of our major objective for for next year is to maybe develop this mentorship process to have more and more volunteer engaged. And we really would like that this was one of the volunteers who can present the candidacy of the institution to the jury. You know, there is a sort of being of people coming from the culture of the culture of the institution and over on a weekend volunteer and that both together can present the candidacy institution. That's for next year. We'll try. Yeah. Thank you, Remy. Super interesting. Does the label recognition comes with anything else like resources, maybe a scholarship to the Glam Glam conference or something that you might think for the future as a way to motivate more people to participate? No, they just have the label, the communication support. And they have this piece of paper and this moment on the on the scene. But it don't happen. Yeah, yeah. Thank you for the idea. We'll think about it for next year. Thank you. Any more questions? Hi, I'm just wondering how the project might double up with Creative Commons. And, you know, obviously there's shared interest. So if you get a label or a certification, is that something that Creative Commons is working with as well? I'm not sure to hear perfectly your question. Sorry. I was just wondering how the project, if you're getting certification through Wikipedia, if it also is the certification through Creative Commons, obviously they get institutions to sign policies and documents to try and get certification. I'm just wondering if there's any crossover between the two that you could maybe use together, rather than just in France, but more globally. Between Creative Commons and Wikimedia France on this project. Yes. Yeah, we we we we had some support for Creative Commons in the process to analyze files, the documents sent by the museum. And this is at this time where Creative Commons supports supporters. I don't know if I clearly answer to your question. I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you very much.