AGENDA
I. 15:00-15:10 (CET) Introduction to GLAM Labs
II. Presentations (45 minutes)
Data Analysis and Visualization: ‘I get by with a little help from AI’
by Filipe Bento, University of Aveiro
Fixing the Flaws: Re-Doing OCR for Old Newspapers
by Max Odsbjerg Pedersen, Royal Danish Library
Bridging AI and Libraries: Refining & Releasing Large Scale Library Datasets
by Matteo Cargnelutti and Catherine Brobston, Harvard Law School Library
III. 15:55-16:00 Final Remarks
Please register for event by following this link*.
*The webinar is kindly hosted by the Royal National Library of Denmark and organised by Kat Hofmann Gasser (khg). Once you have registered you should receive an email from Kat (khg) confirming your registration, a zoom link for the webinar and how to add the webinar to your online calendar.
On Thursday 25 and Friday 26 of June 2026, we will hold a two day conference collaborating with the Edinburgh Futures Institute, to bring together the GLAM Labs practitioner community again to examine what GLAM Labs have achieved over the past 10 years, what challenges there have been and what future models or approaches there could be to these experimental spaces.
Through a series of workshops and talks, this event will draw up a vision for GLAM Labs Futures, imagining, predicting and projecting what the future holds for the experimental reuse of digital collections and data from cultural heritage and other organisations.
We are proud to announce that our keynote for the event will be:
Professor Melissa Terras (MBE)
Our endnote speaker will be:
Dr Tim Sherratt, Historian and Hacker
For booking and more information visit the GLAM Labs Futures 2026 event page
AGENDA
I. 15:00-15:10 Introduction to GLAM Labs
II. 15:10-15:55 Presentations
Ellen Van Keer | Meemoo: Metadata & AV collections
Philippe Genêt | Deutsche National Bibliothek (DNB): Coding da Vinci hackathons
Stephanie Nitsche | Deutsche National Bibliothek: DNB’s user-friendly API-request and "data-dump” apps
III. 15:55-16:00 FINAL REMARKS
DHNB2025. Photo credit: Carmen Kurg.
These workshops explored the publication and reuse of Collections as Data based on Web Archive Content
Australian Web Archive
UK Government Web Archive
Internet Archive
UK Web Archive
Norwegian Web Archive
I. 15:00-15:10 Introduction to GLAM Labs as community
Olga Holownia & Mahendra Mahey
II. 15:10-15:55 Presentations
Nele Gabriëls & Gustavo Candela | Introduction to Checklist for Publishing Collections as Data
Katrine Hofmann Gasser | Connecting people with data at KB Labs at the Royal Danish Library: lessons learned from collaborative projects and initiatives
Gustavo Candela | Reusing digital collections from GLAM Labs: a Jupyter Notebook approach (DHNB 2024 workshop)
III. 15:55-16:00 FINAL REMARKS
DHNB2024. Photo credit: Olga Holownia & Agata Hołobut.
Introduction to GLAM Labs as a community
Introduction to Checklist for Publishing Collections as Data
Connecting people with data at KB Labs at the Royal Danish Library: lessons learned from collaborative projects and initiatives
Connecting people with tools: lessons learned at the DH-lab at the National Library of Norway
Crossroads: the common European data space for cultural heritage
Q&A
See article 'Promoting Computational Access to Digital Collections in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: An Icelandic Use Case'
The webinar brought together theory and practice on how to make available GLAM digital collections as datasets for publication and re-use by researchers, GLAM professionals, creative workers and other users. As the options for preparing collections as data are nearly endless, starting the implementation of the Collections as Data principle may be daunting. To support GLAM institutions to start on this journey, the webinar gave a practical overview of the steps that can be taken and presents some of the choices to be made. Participants also learned about real-life examples from the National Library of Scotland, the German National Library, the Library of Congress, Europeana, KBR - Royal Library of Belgium, the Royal Danish Library and Meemoo.
Book sprint in Doha. Source: Book Sprint's Flickr album.
UCL Qatar, The British Library, Qatar University & Library of Congress
Det Kgl. Bibliotek - The Royal Danish Library ● Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes ● Ghent University ● History Trust of South Australia ● Ionian University ● KB, National Library of the Netherlands ● KBR - The Royal Library of Belgium ● National Library of Scotland ● University of Limerick ● State Library NSW ● DX Lab - State Library NSW ● Austrian National Library ● University of Alicante
See our Publications page.
Labs & DHNB2019. Photo credit: Olga Holownia.
Det Kgl. Bibliotek - The Royal Danish Library & The British Library
AARNet ● Austrian National Library ● Berlin State Library ● Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes ● Bibliotheca Alexandrina ● Bibliothèque nationale de France ● Bordeaux University (France) ● British Library ● Cambridge University Library ● Copenhagen University library ● Europeana ● Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities ● Glucksman Library, University of Limerick ● History Trust of South Australia ● Hong Kong Baptist University ● Hong Kong M+ Museum ● Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ● International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) ● IMPACT Centre of Competence, Spain ● KB, National Library of the Netherlands ● KBR Royal Library of Belgium + Ghent University ● KU Leuven ● LIBER ● Library of Congress ● M+ ● National Archives Australia, SA ● National Library of Estonia ● National Library of Finland ● National Library of Latvia ● National Library of Luxembourg ● National Library of Norway ● National Library of Scotland ● National Library of Sweden ● Norwegian University of Science & Technology ● NTNU University Library - Gunnerus Library ● Qatar National Library ● RLUK ● Royal Danish Library ● UCL Qatar ● Umea University ● University of Adelaide Library ● University of Alicante, Spain ● University of Edinburgh ● University of Newcastle, Australia ● University of Oslo ● University of Salford at MediaCityUK
Library Labs at the British Library. Source: YouTube.
Aarhus University Library ● Adam Lloyd Productions ● Austrian National Library (ONB) ● Berlin State Library ● Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes ● Bibliotheca Alexandrina ● Bibliothèque nationale de France ● Bordeaux University (France) ● British Library ● British Library Labs ● Cambridge University Library ● Copenhagen University Library ● Durham University ● Emma Puente Productions ● Europeana ● Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge ● Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes ● Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities ● Glucksman Library, University of Limerick ● Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ● International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) ● IMAPCT Centre of Competence, Spain ● Join Information Systems Committee (Jisc) ● KB| National Library of the Netherlands ● KU Leuven ● Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Zürich) Lib4RI ● LIBER ● Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences ● Library of Congress ● Library of Congress Labs ● Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania ● National Library of Estonia ● National Library of Finland ● National Library of Israel ● National Library of Latvia ● National Library of Lithuania ● National Library of Norway ● National Library of Scotland ● National Library of Sweden ● Nelson and Co ● Norwegian University of Science & Technology ● NTNU University Library - (University library in Trondheim, Norway) Gunnerus (Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters) Library ● Center for Scientific Documentation and Information - Indonesian Institute of Sciences (PDII-LIPI) ● Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation ● Qatar National Library ● Research Libraries UK (RLUK) ● Royal Danish Library ● Swedish School of Library and Information Science ● The National Archives (UK) ● University College London (UCL) Qatar ● Umeå University (Sweden) ● University of Edinburgh ● University of Oslo