May 13th-14th At College Station in Texas (Texas A&M) - hoping to bring together a wide range of experience to become familiar with and using linked open data.
Stipends and financial assistance available can be noted on the proposal form.
Conference registration goes out towards the end of February (for those wishing to attend and not present.
Next Wikidata Working Hour
Monday, February 3, 2020 at 8am PST / 11am EST / 16:00 UTC / 5pm CET (Time zone converter)
Topic: Adding references to Wikidata for #1Lib1Ref
Usual focus of #1Lib1Ref has been in Wikipedia but there’s been work to do it for WikiData as well for purposes of data quality.
During busy hours may need to retry if it’s not working the first time when using OpenRefine/other tools.
WikiData Deutschland is interested in working with organizations that make their Data public and what errors/data corrections they find and how they’re fixing it - what they can do to help fix. - Get with Hilary and she can put you in touch.
Also considering using schema to automatically add references to statements - focus is on data quality. They want to improve item quality scores in WikiData. Quality of items, how complete they are - trying to get a better idea of how to improve quality/measurements of quality.
Trying to build a means to easier query WikiData (outside of/easier than SPARQL)
They’re also interested in hearing about complaints with WikiData - items they can improve on the website/interface - get with hilary and she can put you in touch.
Continuing to work on documentation for WikiBase.
How labels and aliases are handled for organization name changes, pseudonyms (slides)
If an organization changes its name and it’s simple - add as an Alias or with Official name with start and end times of the name use & preferred rank (triangle pointing up to the left of the name) If it has an abbreviated name as well will want to adjust there as well.
Split or merger - separate pages should be maintained as separate i.e. the before should have “replaced by”(P1366) and after should have “replaces” (P1365)
Can add aliases in the “also known as” section in the description box or a Pseudonym property (P742) - there isn’t a hard and fast rule about which one to use. Sometimes Pseudonyms can have their own items. And these should be listed as Pseudonym on the user’s item.
For a book by an author under a Pseudonym, under the “author” value you can add “named as” and link to their Pseudonym’s statement