Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/Meeting Notes/2019-05-21

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LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group 2019-05-21 9am PST / 12pm EST / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST

Notes[edit]

  • Library Carpentry has a Wikidata lesson in development (details above)
  • Wiki Ed Wikidata workshops and courses starting in July
  • If others know of and want to share other training opportunities please do
  • Merrilee Proffitt - describing volunteer activities with Wikimedia
  • Goals and desired outcomes for the Wikidata Affinity Group (can we call it WAG?)
    • Discussion today and then condense it into an outline, later finalize this draft
    • Check in every three months to see if the goals need to be adjusted.
    • goals and desired outcomes for the Wikidata Affinity Group
      • Paul Burley
        • How to help other institutions begin working with Wikidata
        • What are the skill levels needed? (detailed in link above)
        • Would this be sequential, building up to advance?
          • A list to make clear what you would need to know based on your goals.
      • Scott MacLeod what is the role of html to make such lists
        • Mediawiki for versions, editing
        • Making interoperable with Wikibase (SF-sorry, my audio is cutting out)
        • Here’s the MediaWiki visual editor - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor - which is in development, and will work with HTML - hyper text markup language (the code for web pages).
As a visual editor, and interoperable with Wikidata, it will make lists and editing Wikidata too potentially easy, via HTML and front end Wikipedia article pages
      • Jeff Young - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Listeria (from chat) as an option
      • Harvard: If it's not out of scope, might we want to include an item in here about basic understanding of wikidata in the context of the wiki community/ecosystem and its norms?
        • In scope, the goal of integrating Library data with Wikidata while respect norms is a goal
      • Meg Wacha - important to make competencies clear, and also to make sure that folks engaging with this work aren’t limited to the Harvards and Cornells,
        • How can we be institutionally diverse, what open source tools and community support is required to make this work possible at scale  e.g. public libraries to participate
      • Hilary - What pathways are available for institutions without teams of developers
      • Michelle Rago - (from chat) In addition to examples about adding data to Wikidata, I would like to see the ability to get data out of wikidata to power other websites represented.
        • Hilary - Some of this will be covered in using Wikidata via QA and Sinopia. Can also make clear other ways, e.g. data dumps, APIs.
      • Ongoing support and coding network - and re Wikidata in multiple languages, for libraries +
        • Is there a need for networking beyond the WAG meetings?
      • Will Sinopia have lookups for Wikidata?
        • Currently working on this. A definite goal.
      • Some of the goals are seed form
      • Harvard (from chat) Re: diversity of institution types: How do we learn more about what smaller institutions need in order to participate in the work we're interested in pursuing?
        • Affinity group could be a forum for smaller groups could share their work, and what tools were missing, what hindrances did they face
        • Chris - (from chat) Hi Harvard Room, I’m hoping we can discuss the diverse needs of other libraries in the Library Carpentry Wikidata lesson development :)
        • Joy - LD4 can provide the model for other libraries on how Wikidata can be incorporated into cataloging & metadata and also in the discovery tools.
        • Focus on the competencies
        • Meg - acknowledge the communities and resources already in the Wikidata community, become part of the community
          • Define what LD4’s goals. Will this work be given back to the community to engage with
          • For instance in the IR work, open source development occurred, and when there was a technical gap, vendors swooped in. How can we head this off?
          • Hilary -  plan to document carefully, outline implementation paths, stumbling blocks.
        • Harvard (via chat) we're glad that these venues are open to everyone, but should we be inviting folks to represent those perspectives specifically?
(Apologies if you've already thought about this.)
          • Hilary - interested in bringing in smaller public archives projects.
        • Scott - unfolding brainstorming, can we keep the Outcomes’ document even after the synthesis of the outline for next steps?
        • Joy- (from chat) To let the wider community to test drive Sinopia sandbox as promised, would be one way to include the wider community.
          • Hilary still under active development, will follow up on who will have access when
        • F. Tim Knight (from chat) I don't know a lot about this project but my colleague Stacy Allison-Cassin sent a note around about the Wikidata Shape Expressions project which might be of interest https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_ShEx
          • Data shape references for domains being modeled
          • Hilary will share with WAG how to get involved
  • Wikidata WikiProjects
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