Program of the IV Free Culture Days, including links to the videos of the presentations and the materials used in them. You can find the posters in this blog post.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26

Cafe con OfiLibre: Candidates for Rector and Free Knowledge (video)

  • Session with the two candidates for Rector: Fernando García Muiña and Abraham Duarte, where we talked about free knowledge, open access publishing, open science, free software, open data, etc.

  • Jesús González Barahona, Tomás Zarza Núñez, and Florencia Claes, OfiLibre.

OPENING ACT - Inauguration of the IV Free Culture Days (video)

  • Mercedes del Hoyo, Vice-Rector of Community Campus, Culture, and Sports.

INVITED LECTURE:

  • Citizen Laboratories. Marcos García Cristóbal (slides) (video)

SHORT PRESENTATIONS: CITIZEN SCIENCE, WIKIPEDIA

  • Connections with the environment: citizen laboratories. Piedad Tolmos Rodríguez-Piñero (slides) (video)

  • The white book of the Erasmus + VIRION project. Victoria Mora de la Torre and David García Marín (slides) (video)

  • Do older adults trust Wikipedia? What do they know about free knowledge? What reliability do they give to open sources? Lizette Martínez Valerio (slides) (video)

  • Wikipedia as a pedagogical tool in Communication Sciences. Antonio García Jiménez and Rebeca Suárez Álvarez (slides) (video)

  • Wikimedia Club: project to improve content on science and innovation in Spanish Wikipedia. José María García de Madariaga (slides) (video)

SHORT PRESENTATIONS: EDUCATION

FREE CULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM

  • Behind the cameras: podcast about the professions and professionals in the film industry. Innovation tool in Audiovisual Communication teaching. Rafael Fernando Linares Palomar and Laura Fernández Ramírez (slides) (video)

  • Boosting free culture in the training of future Secondary and Baccalaureate teachers. Oriol Borrás Gené, Almudena Macías Guillén (slides) (video)

IA AND OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

  • Production of Open Educational Resources using Artificial Intelligence. Nerea Benitez Aranda (slides) (video)

  • Using Artificial Intelligence to enhance active and interactive learning in the university classroom. Antonio Julio López Galisteo (slides) (video)

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

  • Creating OER for teaching sustainability organizational. Iria Paz Gil (slides) (video)

  • Circular Economy Slow Game Jam: video games and sustainability. María del Carmen Gertrudis Casado (slides) (video)

  • “Recycle and Tell”: a citizen science project developed within the European Week of Waste Reduction (EWWR 2024). Manuel Gértrudix Barrio (slides) (video)

CHATS

  • Library and its experience in citizen laboratories. Cristina Rincón Moreno (video)

  • Open educational materials: strategy or serendipity? Juan Carlos Aguado Franco (slides) (video)

FREE CULTURE AND ITS EXPERIENCES WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY

  • Library: Materials you can use: practical guide for teachers seeking open resources. Emilio Alvarado Pérez (slides) (video)

  • Office of European Projects: Video-Podcast to promote Horizon Europe calls and encourage researcher participation. Rosa María Mesa Vélez (slides) (video)

  • International Doctoral School: Open publication of Doctoral Theses. Institutional Repository (training activity) and Collection of monographs with Extraordinary Prize. Inmaculada Mora, Isabel Jiménez, and María Del Pilar Abad Romero (slides) (video)

  • Academic Director of Culture at URJC: Cultural contests and open culture. Javier Enrique Otero García (video)

  • Don’t hoard your ideas, give them away. Irene Ros (video)

WORKSHOPS

  • Organize, design, and share knowledge with LaTeX. Marcelo Moreno Porras and Patricia Labrador Ballestero (slides) (all material)

    • In this workshop, we presented how to use LaTeX through Overleaf’s web to create cheat sheets, very useful for compressing and sharing knowledge. The target audience is professors and researchers.

  • Design, production, and dissemination of educational podcasts. Pablo Acosta Gallo

    • In this workshop, we taught how to create podcasts for educational purposes. Target audience: teachers and students.

  • OpenStreetMap. Miguel Sevilla-Callejo, Iván Sánchez Ortega (slides)

    • This workshop aims to introduce the basics of collaborative cartography with OpenStreetMap, with a brief introduction to the project, a brief introduction to the nature of the data on this platform, and then show several tools to introduce data directly on the field with a mobile phone.

  • Introduction to open-source language models. Asociación de Inteligencia Artificial

    • In this workshop, directed at a general audience, we presented the possibilities offered by open-source artificial intelligence models.

  • Don’t hoard your ideas, give them away. Montserrat Irene Ros Martíno

    • The workshop is highly practical. We will get to know each other, talk, debate, and generate many, many ideas. All those that fit in two hours. Anyone who wants to contribute and have fun can come.

THURSDAY, MARCH 27

INVITED LECTURES

  • Open publishing and Open Science. Ignasi Labastida (slides) (video)

  • Recovering memories. Digital conservation and restoration of damaged photographs due to the DANA. Pedro Vicente-Mullor. (video)

SHORT PRESENTATIONS: CV IN FREE CULTURE

  • Digital strategies to improve visibility, indexing, and scientific positioning. Manuel Gértrudix Barrio (slides) (video)

  • The CV of Free Culture. Pablo Hinojosa Nava (slides) (video)

  • Using free software in the automation of document preparation for a congress. Mauro Herrero Cantos (slides) (video)

SHORT PRESENTATIONS: OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND FREE CULTURE IN THE UNIVERSITY

  • Creating and sharing content with eXeLearning and EducaMadrid. Daniel Esteban Roque (slides) (video)

  • Diversity of Licenses in Free Software. Sergio Raúl Montes León (slides) (video)

  • EducaMadrid is the Educational Platform of the Community of Madrid. Adolfo Sanz De Diego (slides) (video)

  • Integrating open datasets in Wikidata, the structured knowledge base of the Wikimedia Foundation. Ángel Obregón Sierra ([presentation