Europeana Staff
Liam Wyatt
Liam Wyatt is the Wikimedia Coordinator for Europeana and founder of the GLAM [Gallery, Library, Archive and Museum] collaboration projects in the Wikimedia community. He was the world’s first ‘Wikipedian in Residence’ at the British Museum and the Global Cultural Partnerships coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation.
He has also worked with Creative Commons Australia and was the innaugural social media coordinator for the National Library of Australia. He has the UNSW university medal in Historiography for his thesis "Wikipedia's Academic Lineage" and a Masters of IP law from WIPO.
He now lives in Bologna, Italy where he enjoys the local cheeses too much.
Publications
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Wikimedia developments task force recommendations
This document makes recommendations outline ways to strengthen Europeana’s future relationship with Wikimedia. In light of the E…
Blog posts
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Looking back on the 2nd European GLAMwiki coordinators meeting
Europeana supports the Wikimedia community in its cultural partnerships across Europe. This is what we learned from participants after the … -
Wiki loves GLAMS! Announcing the Europeana 1914-1918 Wikimedia competition
Europeana calls for Wikimedia affiliates to run editathons relating to the centenary of the First World War. In the first half of 2017, Eur… -
Europeana Art History Challenge finishes
After six weeks of editing, the Art History Challenge on Wikipedia and Wikidata in support of Europeana 280 has now finished. At the sta… -
40 languages, 30 countries and over 280 artworks: Europeana’s Art History Challenge on Wikimedia
This weekend marks the start of an exciting strand of the Europeana 280 campaign, which launches in full next week. It’s the beginning of a… -
Wikidata emerges as central element of GLAM-WIKI 2015
At the intersection of Wikipedia and the cultural sector is “GLAM-WIKI”, and its global conference was held last week on the doorstep of Eu… -
New recommendations outline ways to strengthen Europeana’s future relationship with Wikimedia
In light of the Europeana 2020 strategic plan, what shape should Europeana’s relationship to Wikipedia and the wider Wikimedia community ta… -
Sharing multimedia on Wikipedia now easier with new tool
http://pro.europeana.eu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=0&entryId;=2247110 Galleries, libraries, museums and archives (GLAMs) can now make their d…