Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Wikidata Working Hours/2023-August-18 Wikidata Working Hour

August 18, 2023 Wikidata Working Hour edit

Friday, August 18, 2023 at 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6:00pm CEST / 9:30pm IST

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Recording edit

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Collaborators edit

Co-Leads: Manju Naika, Alexandra Wong, Hilary Thorsen

Chat Monitor: Dnshitobu

Event page: Susan Radovsky

Event dashboard: Susan Radovsky

Series Coordinators: Alexandra Wong, Hilary Thorsen, Susan Radovsky

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Background edit

Starting in August and running through December, 2023, we will be assembling a data set of diverse LIS (Library and Information Science) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata during a series of Wikidata Working Hours. Each event will provide an opportunity to try out different Wikidata-related skills and tools while working with a finite dataset. Topics covered in the Working Hours will include: assembling a bibliography, exporting articles and books from Zotero into QuickStatements, webscraping for data in the PAWS environment, adding authors and publishers manually into Wikidata, batch editing using OpenRefine, batch editing using the LINCS tool, using the Author Disambiguator tool, and analyzing and visualizing data with SPARQL and Scholia.

The first Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover creating a bibliography of diverse LIS articles and books. We will generate a spreadsheet of sources ready for use during subsequent Working Hours.

Citation Politics edit

The ethos of the Working Hour series centres around citation politics and the environmental factors that encourage gaming citation practices.

As feminist scholar Sara Ahmed writes, "I would describe citation as a rather successful reproductive technology, a way of reproducing the world around certain bodies.... The reproduction of a discipline can be the reproduction of these techniques of selection, ways of making certain bodies and thematics core to the discipline, and others not even part."

On the racial politics of citation, Victor Ray states, "Citations draw our attention to the ideas that supposedly matter, they are a measure of one’s intellectual influence and they shape what we are able to think about a given field. Citations, or a lack thereof, bolster reputations and facilitate or exclude one from subsequent opportunities."

We invite reflection and action on how Wikidata, as a linked open database with ties to search engines and Wikipedia and with querying and visualization with SPARQL and Scholia, might help diversify who and what gets cited in the field of LIS.

Citation Politics, a term I prefer to reframe as the "Citation Game," extends beyond the existing discourse. This phrase better encapsulates the dynamics among scientists regarding referencing and citing each other's work; this phenomenon has taken a troubling turn with a rising prevalence of biases. Nowadays, the lines between constructive referencing and manipulation blur as journal reviewers overtly request authors to include citations in their papers; manipulation of citations has evolved into a strategic tool aimed at inflating the Impact Factor of publications, which becomes intertwined with university rankings, addressing this issue necessitates a rigorous investigation to enhance the integrity and quality of scholarly contributions in the realm of citations.

Agenda edit

Background on the Working Hour Series project
Introduction to the topic
Hands-on time to find diverse LIS sources and add them to our data set

Ways to Contribute edit

1. Search for diverse LIS articles, books, and conference proceedings. You can interpret diversity as you would like to. Some examples might be an article written by a person of color or a book on social justice in libraries. Feel free to consult journals or resources you already use or your own library catalog, academic journals database or digital or physical archives or websites, social media, etc.

2. Add the LIS material you find to the spreadsheet

Record the URL, Title, Resource Type, and QID if a Wikidata item has already been created for it.

Resources edit

Lists of LIS Scholarly Journals:

Application profiles:

Today's Working Hour is part of a special series of sessions involving a single data set. You don't have to attend every session to be part of the project, but you can find details about the whole series here.