#glamlabs — Public Fediverse posts

I'm at GLAM-Labs event in Edinburgh - and gratified to hear a panel *unanimously* re-affirm that GLAMs need to keep the "open by default" philosophy for their collections. In recent months I've heard suggestions from some (mainly US-based) repository managers that we can no longer be open by default (mainly due to challenges of dealing with bot traffic).

I'm really pleased that the leading GLAM innovators represented here do *not* want to retreat on openness.

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I gave a keynote at the #GLAMLabs conference in Edinburgh today. I'll post the fulltext on my blog in a few days, but here's the slides: https://slides.com/wragge/glam-labs-2026 #GLAM #digitalhumanities

Very well deserved: the 2026 GLAM Special Labs Award ‘for being the most dedicated labber’. #GLAMLabs Congratulations @wragge

DIY name badges for the #GLAMLabs conference.

Wonderful work by the colleagues from the National Library of Estonia's Digilab: curating and publishing the Estonian National Bibliography as data #GlamLABS #collectionsasdata #DHNB2025 See https://digilab.rara.ee/en/datasets/curated-enb/ + OA paper https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.280

Current work includes #GlamLabs to promote reuse of digital collections and collaboration with wider community #AI ##CENL