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Milena Dobreva

@milenado.bsky.social
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Innovation and heritage. Policy and communities. Decolonising GLAMs.

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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What does “open” really mean when infrastructures shaping digital heritage are so unevenly distributed across the world? Check the article “Open Data, Metadata Regimes and Unequal Infrastructures: Decolonial Challenges for Digital Heritage Preservation” by Victor Murari www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/9/...
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
🆕 "Digital Resource Organization and Multi-Terminal Presentation Framework for Traditional Handicraft Transmission Sites" by Rui Wang, Yuntuan Li, Qiansheng Li and Mingzhen Ye just out: www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/9/... More special issue articles www.mdpi.com/journal/heritage/special_issues/H7579W7978
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
NEW! An Empirically Grounded Framework for Documenting Digital Cultural Heritage Use/Reuse by Mahendra Mahey, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt & Pille Runnel - doi.org/10.3390/heri... in the Special Issue Advances in Digital Heritage Preservation and Open Science; www.mdpi.com/journal/heri...
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The 1st article in our special issue by I.M.Cortea: From FAIR Principles to Practice: A Case Study of FAIRification in a Heritage Science Data Service🔗 www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/9/... on a roadmap-driven #FAIRification approach aligned with the #EOSC Interoperability Framework and #TRUST Principles.
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🌐 The 2nd article in our Special Issue: "Preserving Digital Cultural Heritage: A Wikidata Approach to Extract Multimodal Collections as Data in Museums” by G. Candela, C.A.Romein and J.M.Birkholz www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/9/8/292. More info on www.mdpi.com/journal/heritage/special_issues/H7579W7978
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
There is time till the end of the month to propose modules for the autumn school #AI for #GLAMs at the 4th Museum Big Data conference: 2026.museumbigdata.org/satellite-ev...
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Satellite Event | MBD 2026
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Revisiting our systematic review of #Wikidata in #GLAM nearly two years on. The key message still holds: cultural heritage institutions need to move beyond #access and make #reuse a core part of their data practice. #FAIRdata #DigitalHeritage link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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A Systematic Review of Wikidata in GLAM Institutions: a Labs Approach
GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) organisations host extensive digital collections that have been made available to the public for over three decades. Advances in technology have facil...
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
📢 Our paper is out at #JOCCH! The term "use case" is everywhere in the digital heritage domain, but is often used as a catch-all for different things. We offer a more systematic approach grounded in the pioneering work of Alistair Cockburn. A big thank you to all co-authors: doi.org/10.1145/3828...
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This is the graphic summary of the final #decoglam conference which was hosted by the University of Strathclyde on 26 november 2025. Lovely contribution by Eddie Draws CIC. Great discussions and good ideas for the future!
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It's our favourite conference event in the calendar, and this year, we have the honour of hosting it @BritishLibrary! Fantastic Futures 2025 covering all things AI for Libraries, Archives and Museums begins THIS WEEK! sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/... #ff2025 #ai4lam
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
⏳ Perfectly timed as it just got published in the hashtag#OpenAccessWeek 2025 ✨ Delighted to share our ASIS&T 2025 poster "Introducing Collections as Data in Postgraduate and Professional LIS Education" co-authored with Gustavo Candela Romero. asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🚀 New Paper Alert! 🚀 Inspired by the call for new use cases for the #ECCCH, we propose a new framework for designing reproducible use cases in digital cultural heritage. 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2509.08710 #DigitalCommons #DigitalCulturalHeritage #JupyterNotebooks #Innovation
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A Use Case Lens on Digital Cultural Heritage
This article proposes a novel methodological approach for developing use cases for CH e-infrastuctures documented using Jupyter Notebooks (JNs), enabling transparency and reproducibility. We also addr...
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Here is the link to the #DeCoGLAM community third event which is dedicated to co-creation - we will be using zines (or any other medium you prefer) and will explore how to co-create #decolonisation #narratives: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-create-... 3 July in Glasgow, facilitated by Adam Ramejkis.
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Co-create with DeCoGLAM: discuss/connect/zine
Join us for this face-to-face event, where we will use co-creation, including zines, to explore and articulate decolonisation narratives.
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Thank you for sharing, Pablo.
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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2025
A checklist to publish collections as data in GLAM institutions | Emerald Insight www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi…
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A checklist to publish collections as data in GLAM institutions | Emerald Insight
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Our article suggesting a checklist to publish collections as data in #GLAMs - some useful connections can be made with the current work on datasheets for cultural heritage datasets. doi.org/10.1108/GKMC...
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A checklist to publish collections as data in GLAM institutions | Emerald Insight
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
In #DeCoGLAM, we will have a launch event in Glasgow on 7 May and a workshop on 6 June: www.eventbrite.com/e/generative...). This is a free event but booking is mandatory.
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Generative AI, Digital Heritage, Racialised Gender, Race and Ethnicity
An event bringing together experts to explore how AI impacts cultural heritage and racialized identities.
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
In #DeCoGLAM, we are keen to explore how decolonising collections interacts with decolonising #curricula. In the next months, we will be hosting a series of #events in Glasgow and will be creating 🎙️ #podcasts on relevant topics. If you are keen to be involved, get in touch!
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The #DeCoGLAM list was started by the team from the University of Strathclyde, which works on building a community of professionals, academics and citizens interested in #decolonising collections in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (#GLAMs).
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Three years ago, we published a special issue of @iflaglobal.bsky.social Journal which explored how #COVID impacted innovation in #libraries. doi.org/10.1177/0340... What motivates libraries to innovate today?
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Paula Kennedy @paulakennedy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We’re very excited @uolpress.bsky.social to be launching this new ‘Digital Cultural Heritage’ series: short-form, #OpenAccess books aimed at + written by academics and practitioners working in #GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) sector. Find out more below 👇 - and please do share!
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Milena Dobreva @milenado.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
From #ThinkCulture to #RethinkCulture  This post discusses the importance of enhancing diversity and inclusion within digital cultural heritage professionals. It emphasizes the need for integrating community perspectives and participatory approaches to interpret artefacts accurately.
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From #ThinkCulture to #RethinkCulture 
This post discusses the importance of enhancing diversity and inclusion within digital cultural heritage professionals. It emphasizes the need for integrating community perspectives and participatory approaches to interpret artefacts accurately.
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