EVENT LINK: bit.ly/WIKIBLT

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host a virtual edit-a-thon with University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 25th, 2020 at noon EST. We will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Black visual artists.

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon. We will have library resources and a list of suggested artists, cultural creators, and institutions on hand.

International Open Access Week 2020, October 19 – 25, is a global event promoting access to knowledge, highlighting Open activities, and promoting actions that will help make more scholarly and educational materials freely available to teachers, learners, researchers, and the public.

Open Access refers to:

Scholarly work – articles, books, research data, multimedia, etc.which are freely available online, which often has few or no restrictions on reuse. By removing financial and legal barriers, Open Access enables teachers, scholars, and learners to find academic information and to use that information to make new discoveries, create new works, and advance human knowledge.

The concepts of Open Educational Resources, Open Data, Open Source Software, and Open Research Practices share this core idea that Open means “free to use + permission to modify, share, or reuse,” and allows more people to benefit from more information than ever before

University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries

U of W-M Open Educational Resources