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Notes edit

Projects edit

Wikidata projects edit

* Reimagining Wikidata from the margins

WikiDataCon 2021

Wikidata:WikiProject European Colonialism
Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians
Wikidata:WikiProject Chattel Enslavement and Freedom
- Julie Weil, “Who Owned Slaves in Congress? A List of 1,700 Enslavers in Senate, House History.,” (The Washington Post, January 10, 2022), https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/
- External links on ENWP
- ENWP Signpost Black History Month (USA) 2021
- ESCLAVAGE & INDEMNITÉS https://esclavage-indemnites.fr/public/
Wikidata:WikiProject_Plantations_in_Suriname
Wikidata:WikiProject_SFMOMA
Wikidata:WikiProject Journalists

Archives related edit

DH projects edit

African American Visual Artists Database (2006–15), https://wayback.archive-it.org/4472/20210316161148/http:/216.197.120.164/ [archived]
Directory of Caribbean Digital Scholarship https://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/caridischo/
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PfgI0GrQR60gwRFVIZmZtWae9JyAMpZNFOZRe5xsMsg/edit#gid=1461016146

Standards and practice edit

Koster and Woutersen-Windhouwer, “FAIR Principles for Library, Archive and Museum Collections: A Proposal for Standards for Reusable Collections,” Code4Lib Journal, no. 40 (May 7, 2018), https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/13427.
“Design for Diversity: The Case of Ed / Alex Gil – the Design for Diversity Learning Toolkit,” Archive.org, June 20, 2019, https://web.archive.org/web/20200326054116/https://des4div.library.northeastern.edu/design-for-diversity-the-case-of-ed-alex-gil/.

Gil "towards minimal computing practices"

Thornton, "Wikidata for Digital Preservationists", DPC Technology Watch Guidance Note, December 2021, Digitial Preservation Coalition, https://www.dpconline.org/docs/technology-watch-reports/2551-thorntonwikidatadpc-revsionthornton/file

announcement https://www.dpconline.org/news/twgn-wikidata-gen

Random notes that need to be sorted edit

Slade School https://w.wiki/4XdA
The Linked Open Data Cloud - https://lod-cloud.net/#about
Wikidata Stats
Category:American slaves (Q8020033)
Reasonator
SQID
gap on Wikidata
how to merge items
Wikiprojects
- on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008)
- eg: American Women's History Initiative (Q62695096)
Wikidata editing with OpenRefine https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine/Editing
modelling copyright status
- public domain: Atlas Cresques (Q1356297) -
- copyrighted: https://w.wiki/Eii
model for married and birth names: Jane S. Bell (Q60572861)
manuscripts - fieldwork notebook: Journal kept by Bailey on field trip to Wyoming and New Mexico, March 15-June 1906 (Q65622130)
Black Digital Humanities Projects and Resources (Q75852397)
Wikidata Cradle https://cradle.toolforge.org/#/
- impact of the Portrait of Madame X, by John Singer Sargent, in art, fashion and film https://w.wiki/6bx - by Fuzheado
- depiction of Socrates in paintings across museums https://w.wiki/6Bf
- 1897 Benin Punitive Riad https://w.wiki/KcB

GLAM data projects edit

Open Data Art - "Linking Databases To Facilitate Provenance Research For Nazi-Era Art" dataset google sheets
International Inventories Programme - "The International Inventories Programme is an international research and database project investigating a collection of Kenyan objects held in cultural institutions across the globe."
Open Inheritance Art "database of 36,000 national heritage tax-exempt artworks" "privately owned artworks are given inheritance and capital gains tax relief if they meet the criteria of ‘outstanding beauty, historical or scientific interest’, providing the inherited owners maintain the artworks, keep them in the UK and, most crucially to this project, make them available for the public to visit."
- http://www.visitukheritage.gov.uk/servlet/com.eds.ir.cto.servlet.CtoChatSearchServlet
OpenGLAM survey - by Andrea Wallace and Doug McCarthy "what cultural heritage organisations make their digital collections available for free reuse, and how they do this" (more information)

Annual holidays edit

Relationships edit

partner in business or sport (P1327) business/professional/sports/work partner, collaborator
unmarried partner (P451) romantic partner, boy/girlfriend, lover, domestic partner

Political activity and ideology edit

member of (P463) clubs and organisation to which a person belongs
affiliation (P1416) organization that a person or organization is affiliated with
political ideology (P1142) political ideology of this organization or person
participant (P710) person, group of people or organization (object) that actively takes/took part in the event (subject). Preferably qualify with "object has role" (P3831). Use P1923 for team participants.
participant in (P1344) event a person or an organization was a participant in, inverse of P710 or P1923

political position (Q20045456) views on several subjects
ideology (Q7257) set of ideas that form one's aims, expectations and actions
political movement (Q2738074) movement to obtain a political goal
political activist (Q11499147) activist wanting political change

Random Qs + Ps edit

history of topic (P2184) item about the historical development of an subject's topic, sample: "history of Argentina" for "Argentina". To list key events of the topic, use "significant event" (P793)
practiced by (P3095) type of agents that study this subject or work in this profession
significant event (P793) significant event

New World Slavery edit

https://www.entitree.com/en/family_tree/Dido_Elizabeth_Belle

Ending enslavement edit

liberation (Q24238946) act or state of being liberated
Self-purchase (Q81936755) event or act in which an enslaved person purchases his/her own freedom
rebel (Q1125062) member of a rebellion
revolutionary (Q3242115) person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution

freedom fighter (Q30242234)a person who takes part in a resistance movement against an oppressive political or social establishment

manumission (Q1454489) act of slave owner freeing slaves
fugitive slave (Q22893595) an enslaved person who liberated themselves

Discussions edit

ethical considerations? edit

"property" show to show relationship with enslaver?

eg: Edmond Albius (Q1120876)owned by (P127)Féréol Bellier Beaumont (Q23899618)

nationalities and citizenship? contemporary nation states ?
differentiating systems of enslavement eg: racialised chattel slavery, modern day slavery etc
descriptions see: Sarah Gandwell (Q76360350)

Oney Judge (Q2024192) fugitive slave, enslaved by Martha Washington
Sarah Gandwell (Q76360350) "free negro" woman
Sally Hemings (Q257464) American woman and her sister Mary Hemings (Q6779764) American slave

family trees see:

Aqualtune (Q9626703), Ganga Zumba (Q2872507) https://www.entitree.com/en/family_tree/Ganga_Zumba

Sally Hemings (Q257464)

Harriet Hemings^[d]

John Wayles^[d]

Sally Hemings^[d]

Madison Hemings^[d]

Ellen Hemings Roberts^[d]

Betty Hemings^[d]

Eston Hemings^[d]

John Wayles Jefferson^[d]

Zumbi (Q229682)

Motumbo^[d]

Sabina^[d]

Zumbi^[d]

Acaiuba Zambi^[d]

use of creative imagery see: Ganga Zumba (Q2872507), Zumbi (Q229682)

María Remedios del Valle De Rosas (Q6004493) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mar%C3%ADa_Remedios_del_Valle

ethinicity? see Aqualtune (Q9626703)ethnic group (P172)quilombola (Q16204670)
free villages and settlements
quantity enslaved by a particular person or in a particular location/point in time
slave rebellion participation
"fugitive slave", "freedman" - when to use and how to link
plantations, inheritance, legitimacy ?
End cause - manumission, self purchase, self-liberation?
enslaved on or in a location:

eg: Oney Judge (Q2024192) enslaved in President's House (Q3402408) and Mount Vernon (Q731635)

how many enslaved people are buried at Mount Vernon?

how many were enslaved and held captive at Mount Vernon?

or resident?

Ownership edit

owned by (P127) needs start and end dates.

does not diferentiate between proprietor (Q16869121) and possessor (Q57575097)

Wikidata IDs edit

revolts and rebellions edit

participant in (P1344) person, group of people or organization (object) that actively takes/took part in an event or process (subject). Preferably qualify with "object has role" object has role (P3831). Use participating team (P1923) for participants that are teams
conflict (P607) battles, wars or other military engagements in which the person or item participated

individuals edit

1619 Virginia

Settlements edit

Not in the other language edit

https://not-in-the-other-language.toolforge.org/

pt > en Category Escravidão no Novo Mundo

Art edit

exhibition history (P608) exhibitions where the item is or was displayed

exhibition (Q464980), artist (Q483501)

source website for the property (P1896) URL of website acting as source of data for this Wikidata property

exhibition histories edit

Black is Beautiful: Rubens tot Dumas, by Elmer Kolfin; Esther Schreuder; Arnoud Bijl; Vincent Boele; Nicolette Sluijter-Seijffert, art catalog and exhibition in Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam 26 July - 26 October 2008
Two Centuries of Black American Art, 1976 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Q1641836) exhibition, curated by David Driskell (Q5232007)
- Two Centuries of Black American Art (Q18749250)
  - Exhibition catalogue https://archive.org/details/TwoCenturiesBlackAmericanArt/page/n6/mode/thumb
  - Exhibit list https://www.lacma.org/sites/default/files/icon-upload/date%3Acustom%3AY%5D-04/TwoCenturiesChecklist.pdf

Useful edit

Ethnicity and ethnic identity edit

ethnic group (P172) subject's ethnicity (consensus is that a VERY high standard of proof is needed for this field to be used. In general this means 1) the subject claims it him/herself, or 2) it is widely agreed on by scholars, or 3) is fictional and portrayed as such).
diaspora (P3833) diaspora that a cultural group belongs to

diaspora (Q133004) dispersion of ethnic communities
ethnic community (Q28790362) in a specific country or region
ethnic group (Q41710) socially defined category of people who identify with each other

Indigenous names

name in native language (P1559) name of a person in their native language. Could be displayed in addition to the label, if language has a different script
native label (P1705) label for item in its official or original language
official name (P1448) official name of the subject in its official language(s)

Artistic and political movements edit

movement (P135) literary, artistic, scientific or philosophical movement associated with this person or work

cultural movement (Q2198855) period and movement in cultural history
political movement (Q2738074) movement to obtain a political goal
social movement (Q49773) type of group action
art movement (Q968159) tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, possibly associated with a specific historical period

literary movement (Q3326717) art movement in literature
literary group (Q23834194) group or school of writers

art style (Q1792644) visual appearance of a creative work, shared with other works of the same movement or school

notable work (P800)
influenced by (P737)
part of (P361) inverse has part(s) (P527) use for bands, groups, collectives etc

Subject edit

main subject (P921) primary subject of a work
depicts (P180) (depiction of / painting of / motif / portrait of / landscape of / represents)
depicted by (P1299)

Miscellany edit

Wikidata tools edit

Wikicommons Creator from Wikidata
Wikidata Mix n Match
Magnus' tools
- Bio generator
- reasonator
Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikipedia-and-wikidata-to/aiilcelhmpllcgkhhpifagfehbddkdfp demo
keyboard shortcuts]
- - L to move cursor to Label box (so you can press "L" and then immediately start writing)
  - D to move cursor to Description box
  - S to navigate to "Statements" heading
  - A to highlight the "[add]" under Statements (or preferrably to have the same effect as clicking "[add]")
  - I to navigate to "List of pages linked to this item" heading
Quickstatements
Wikidata Terminator - find Wikidata items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language.

Workflow examples and tips edit

User:Walkuraxx's documentation of workflows for the ingestion of bibliographic data into Wikidata
- How to import scholarly articles to Wikidata using Zotero
- How to import books to Wikidata using a spreadsheet and OpenRefine

African diaspora annual commemorations edit

Black Awareness Day (Q3082990) Brazil, 20 November
Dia del Negro (Q58813329) Costa Rica, 31 August
Black History Month (Q458206) USA, UK, Canada

writing descriptions edit

Description guideline: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Description
- Keep the description short
- Punctuate and capitalize as if the description was appearing in the middle of a sentence
- No initial articles (a, an, the)