[OpenGLAM] GLAM in other languages

Fri Jan 25 19:55:11 UTC 2013

Thanks for the input everyone.

And for the Bowie link :)

Corina

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:22 AM, Merete Sanderhoff <Merete.Sanderhoff at smk.dk
> wrote:

> As for Denmark, my sense is that the GLAM acronym is not in wide use
> outside the local OpenGLAM community. My suspicion is that the term is
> really a global community thing, not much used outside our own circles. So
> whenever I use it I always explain the acronym by routine.
>
> Best,
> Merete
>
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: open-glam-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:
> open-glam-bounces at lists.okfn.org] På vegne af Sarah Stierch
> Sendt: 24. januar 2013 23:37
> Til: open-glam at lists.okfn.org
> Emne: Re: [OpenGLAM] GLAM in other languages
>
> 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>
> 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>>
> >>> 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<mailto:open-glam at lists.okfn.org>>
> >>> 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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