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Monday, September 20 • 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Decolonizing Metadata

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This panel imagines how open media platforms can help underrepresented communities correct data about them in the metadata that accompanies the media files and why it would be important.

Speakers
avatar for Andrew Lih

Andrew Lih

Principal, WikiStudio
Andrew Lih is one of the world's foremost experts on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement and is the author of the book The Wikipedia Revolution: How a bunch of nobodies created the world's greatest encyclopedia (2009). He currently serves as the Wikimedian at Large at the Smithsonian... Read More →
avatar for Virginia Poundstone

Virginia Poundstone

Director of Product and Content, MHz Foundation
Virginia Poundstone applies her skills as a visual artist, educator, and community organizer to lead the product and content strategy and teams for the open access art and cultural heritage project: Curationist. Prior to joining the MHz Foundation she was an art educator at Parsons... Read More →
avatar for Artem Reshetnikov

Artem Reshetnikov

Researcher, BSC
avatar for Zack Krida

Zack Krida

Team Lead on Openverse, Automattic
avatar for George Oates

George Oates

Executive Director, Flickr Foundation
I am a designer and maker working in cultural heritage.
avatar for Sandra Fauconnier

Sandra Fauconnier

Wikimedia / OpenRefine
I'm an art historian and I've worked on digital and video projects in the cultural sector since the late 1990s. I'm a passionate advocate of all things open and Linked Data. Active Wikimedian, mainly working on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. Currently working with OpenRefine too... Read More →


Monday September 20, 2021 8:00pm - 9:30pm UTC
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