International encyclopedia meetup
2020
Video meetup
The Great Norwegian Encyclopedia (SNL) invited all encyclopedias of the world to an informal video meetup on December 1st 2020 at 15:00 CET.
65 people from 14 organisations in 12 countries attended the meetup.
The goal was to bridge the gap between last year’s European Encyclopedia Conference in Brussels and the postponed conference to be held in Croatia in 2021, and to get to know those who did not have the chance to participate in 2019.
| CST US/Ca. |
EST US/Ca. |
UTC GMT |
CET Eur. |
EET Eur. |
GET Geor. |
NZDT NZ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue. 1 Dec 08:00 |
Tue. 1 Dec 09:00 |
Tue. 1 Dec 14:00 |
Tue. 1 Dec 15:00 |
Tue. 1 Dec 16:00 |
Tue. 1 Dec 18:00 |
Wed. 2 Dec 03:00 |
Unlimited participants
Participation was open for all staff and board members from each encyclopedia, more than 60 people attended the meeting.
Agenda
One person from each institution got a few minutes to give a brief, informal talk about the following:
- How has the pandemic influenced the traffic to your encyclopedia? What kind of content has been more sought after?
- How has your editorial work been affected by the pandemic? How has it influenced your team? Has your “production” increased or decreased? Have you met a lot of obstacles?
- Have any opportunities arisen during the pandemic that would otherwise not have materialized? (How) did you seize them?
Attendees
 | Historica Canada (The Canadian Encyclopedia) | 7 |
|---|---|---|
 | Catalan Encyclopedia | 2 |
 | lex.dk | 8 |
 | European Parliament Liaison Office, Washington DC | 1 |
 | Georgian Encyclopedia | 4 |
 | Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography | 5 |
 | Latvian National Encyclopedia | 6 |
 | Moldovan Center for Encyclopedic Research | 1 |
 | Allkunne – Norwegian Encyclopedia | 2 |
| Great Norwegian Encyclopedia | 16 |
| Minus | 1 |
 | Swedish National Encyclopedia | 10 |
 | NAS Institute of Encyclopedic Research | 1 |
 | Encyclopædia Britannica | 1 |
Contact us
The meeting is organised by Stig Arild Pettersen and Erik Bolstad at the Great Norwegian Encyclopedia.
Contact Stig: +47 986 22 260, stig at snl dot no
Contact Erik: +47 911 31 091, erik at snl dot no
European Encyclopedia Conference 2019
Last years conference was held in Brussels. The Great Norwegian Encyclopedia (SNL), in cooperation with the European Parliamentary Research Service and The Mission of Norway to the European Union, organised the event, which we believe was the largest meetup of encyclopedias from Europe and North America ever.
The European encyclopedias have a long and rich history. This is how Denis Diderot – the principal editor of the Encyclopédie – described an encyclopedia’s mission in 1755. It is still valid – 265 years later.
Indeed, the purpose of an encyclopedia is to collect knowledge disseminated around the globe; to set forth its general system to the men with whom we live, and transmit it to those who will come after us, so that the work of preceding centuries will not become useless to the centuries to come; and so that our offspring, becoming better instructed, will at the same time become more virtuous and happy, and that we should not die without having rendered a service to the human race in the future years to come.
Denis Diderot in Encyclopédie (1755), translated by Philip Stewart