[OpenGLAM] GLAM in other languages

Thu Jan 24 23:11:33 UTC 2013

Free Bowie for all:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie

(and don't miss the...interesting fan art at the bottom)

-S

On 1/24/13 3:07 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
> > 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 
> <mailto: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
>
>     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
>         <mailto: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 <mailto: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><mailto:corina at corinamacdonald.net
>                 <mailto:corina at corinamacdonald.net>>>
>                 Date: Thursday, January 24, 2013 2:32 PM
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>                 <mailto:open-glam at lists.okfn.org><mailto: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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