[OpenGLAM] GLAM in other languages

[Tom Johnson]

> GLAM is also a wonderful excuse to use David Bowie in my presentations.

Right? We're going to have the best parties.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch at okfn.org>wrote:

> Our French speaking colleagues at Wikimedia Canada appear to use GLAM in
> some capacity:
>
> http://wikimedia.ca/wiki/**Projets/GLAM<http://wikimedia.ca/wiki/Projets/GLAM>
>
> It is an English language brand, and a lot of us are trying to popularize
> it, and it is slowly working in the US and UK, it seems. In the US they
> tend to say "LAM" as calling things "galleries," isn't as popular as it
> appears to be in the UK/Australia. (Even though we do have a National
> Gallery and lots of non-profit galleries - which I'm bias towards, since I
> come from the private sector art gallery world <aka selling art> and I'd
> love to do more partnership development regarding historical and
> contemporary galleries and Open stuff...so this American still uses GLAM!)
>
> GLAM is also a wonderful excuse to use David Bowie in my presentations.
>
> -Sarah
>
>
>
> On 1/24/13 1:41 PM, Daniel Mietchen wrote:
>
>
>  In German, "GLAM" is basically not used, and while people are becoming
>> more familiar with the term, alternatives like "Kultureinrichtungen",
>> "kultureller Sektor", "Gedächtnisinstitutionen" prevail.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:40 PM, C MacDonald <corina at corinamacdonald.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'll see if anyone here in Québec is using this term. I suspect not
>>> though,
>>> I haven't come across it anywhere.
>>> Otherwise I will stick with "Institutions culturelles" for now,
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Corina
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Edson, Michael <EDSONM at si.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do let us know what you find. Even in English I find GLAM to be an
>>>> awkward
>>>> and difficult term to use. It's not widely used or recognized here in
>>>> the
>>>> US, even among library, museum, and archive professionals - - though
>>>> thanks
>>>> to the openGLAM movement it's becoming better known.
>>>>
>>>> From: C MacDonald
>>>> <corina at corinamacdonald.net<**mailto:corina at corinamacdonald.**net<corina at corinamacdonald.net>
>>>> >>
>>>> Date: Thursday, January 24, 2013 2:32 PM
>>>> To: "open-glam at lists.okfn.org<**mailto:open-glam at lists.okfn.**org<open-glam at lists.okfn.org>
>>>> >"
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>>>> Subject: [OpenGLAM] GLAM in other languages
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I was just wondering if the GLAM acronym is widely used in other
>>>> languages. I am working on some bilingual documents and not sure if I
>>>> should
>>>> use this term in French. Is there a French equivalent that anyone knows
>>>> of?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Corina
>>>>
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