Wikidata:WikidataCon 2017/Notes/Soliciting Data Donations: A Beginners' Guide

Title: Soliciting Data Donations: A Beginners Guide

Speaker(s)

Name or username: Andy Mabbett, User:Pigsonthewing

Contact (email, Twitter, etc.): @pigsonthewing

Useful links

Andy Mabbett: http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

Quora: https://www.quora.com/

Quora topic ID (P3417): https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3417

Quora blog posts

"Announcing Wikidata References on Topics": https://blog.quora.com/Announcing-Wikidata-References-on-Topics

"Adding Locations via Wikidata": https://quoraontology.quora.com/Adding-Locations-via-Wikidata

"Identifying Topics about People": https://quoraontology.quora.com/Identifying-Topics-about-People

Songkick artist ID (P3478): https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3478

"Combining Forces with the Wikipedia Universe": https://blog.songkick.com/combining-forces-with-the-wikipedia-universe-38b562ced1e8

Wikidata for authority control: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_for_authority_control

DBLP ID (P2456): https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2456

SNAC Ark ID (P3430): https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3430

Beacon: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/beacon.php

e.g. https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/beacon.php?prop=496&source=3417&site= (P496=ORCID id; P3417 = Quora topic ID)

Abstract

After successfully securing large data donations from TED, the BBC, the Royal Society of Chemistry, Quora, Songkick, universities and more, I'd like to share my experience and offer (and solicit) suggestions for improving our approaches to donors, and our workflow for accepting and processing data. How can we conduct sensitive negotiations, with public and commercial bodies, while maintaining the open and accountable ethos of our movement? How can we grow a data donation into a more rounded GLAM collaboration?