Wikidata : WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/Meeting Notes/2023-02-07
What is your Wikidata passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project, or just what you like to edit when you have time. We'd love to have an open mic session, completely informal. Please add yourselves here if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so and share your screen, with no need for formal slides. This is a community session where we welcome all to participate! Plug and Play!
Hilary Thorsen (WikiProjects)
Christa Strickler (Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice)
Filling gap in religious and theological studies
Scholarly communication in religion and theology
Purpose to build skills and share knowledge
Working on getting the community of practice going again after one meeting last year
Journal of Religion in Africa–first project to create items for journal articles
Will be building skills and using batch processing tools
Google Group
Slack
Project page
Other project on hymns using hymnals
Silvia: Synergies might be possible with Wikiproject Religion and Traditional African Religions Portal
Steve: Vanderbilt Divinity School - close to having all publications in Wikidata using output from their Zotero database.
Joe Cera (Convincing librarians that they should be engaging Wikidata)
Trying to get librarians engaged and new people participating from law libraries
Finding ways to make transition easier for people, so that they feel like linked data is approachable
Built an alternative chat server
Bob: like the ethos that surrounds the Wikipedia community – helping breaking down borders like
Silvia: project of interest: WikiProject_Brazilian_Laws
Sasha Frizzell (Married & maiden names!)
Working with auction catalogs and came across names married/maiden names and was having hard time with Library of Congress Name Authorities
Wikidata was helpful because had aliases and dates she was married
Using Wikidata as supplement to LCNAF
Karly: I unfortunately need to leave but excited to see this topic highlighted! in a previous position at the Frick Art Reference Library, I was attempting to use Wikidata and Mix'n'Match to identify women who were named only by their husband's name in our sitters file
Yale had a (non-Wikidata) project in their ArchivesSpace to update names of women identified by their husband’s name
Darnelle Melvin (Special Collections & LGBTQ+ Las Vegas Community)
Started during the PCC Wikidata Pilot
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_PCC_Wikidata_Pilot/UNLV
Focusing on LGBTQ community in Las Vegas by doing research in archival collections which haven’t yet been digitized
Wikidata gives researchers another access point to the collections
Will focus on visualizing on maps, timelines, graphs
First focus was on businesses
Have Wikimedian working on this and will have 2 additional ones starting in July
Working on LGBTQ Movers and Shakers
Wikiproject popularity has meant that digitization of collection has been prioritized
Digital object will be linked from Wikidata item
Learned so much about city as a result of the project
Would love to coordinate a regional/national project
Silvia Gutiérrez (Learning what the community needs to support your work better!)
Senior program officer for Libraries at Wikimedia Foundation
Toolhub: https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/
Space to gather tools that already exist
Wikipedia y bibliotecas (space to gather manuals + tutorials - only in Spanish): https://wikibibliotecas.colmex.mx/
Project on modelling WikiProjects (to be started - only if the community is interested !)
Contact Silvia at silviaegt[at]wikimedia.org
Bob Kosovsky (NYPL)
helped people at Morgan Library get into Wikidata and learned from Rob Hudson at Carnegie Hall
Lowering boundaries that institutions erect–our obligation to totally destroy that
Focus is the project–not what you represent
Darnelle would love to see more of people’s SPARQL queries even an impromptu share your SPARQL queries
Ideas for future SPARQL sessions
Rob Fernandez and Darnelle suggested for their SPARQL query knowledge!
Formulate queries as a group from basic starting point of what we want but don’t know how to formulate
Future sessions on Wikimedia Commons, Working Hour on WikiProject page creation, communication spaces
Steve–intersection Wikidata, Commons, and IIIF
experimenting with Google AI to add depicts statements
Communication spaces documentation: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/Practical_Wikidata_for_Librarians/Communication