Day 2💫 Wednesday, 22 October
British Library's Open and Engaged 2025 Conference
Day 2 opens with lightning talks on safeguarding research, documenting intangible heritage, applying the ethical principles, and managing risks in open cultural data. A panel on Technology, Power, and Equitable Design follows, exploring how digital tools and infrastructures shape knowledge ownership and how design choices can support more equitable futures.
Note that the programme will be updated as we finalise the details throughout the next weeks. Registration is required separately for each day.
13:30- 13:45 Welcome remarks 13:45- 14:45 Lightning talks: Sharing responsibly while navigating risks, ethics, and community needs
Jez Cope, Data Services Lead at the British Library and Henrik Schönemann, Safeguarding Research & Culture. On the Value of Being Unorthodox: Resilience in a Time of Hostility against Arts and Sciences.
Lynda Kellam and Lena Bohman, Founding organizers of the Data Rescue Project. Rescuing U.S. Federal Data with the Data Rescue Project.
Revekka Kefalea, Independent Researcher, Project Manager at Inter Alia. From Caution to Care: A Living Risk Management Toolkit for Open GLAM
Blanka Matkovic, Data Services Specialist at the British Library. The Challenges of Implementing and Operationalising the CARE Principles.
Jennifer Macmillan, Collections Systems Specialist at the British Film Institute. The Sensational Museum at the BFI: redefining ‘accessible’.
14:45- 15:15 Break 15:15- 16:25 Session on Technology, Power, and Equitable Design
Ashley Rojas, Integration Specialist & Web Developer at Local Contexts. Implementing CARE Principles: Indigenous Data Governance using the Local Contexts Hub.
Silvio Peroni, Director of OpenCitations. The path to open: premises and achievements after more than a decade of OpenCitations.
16:30- Closing remarks
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