GLAM February 2021

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GLAM & Culture office hours in January and February

by Fiona Romeo

The GLAM & Culture team at the Foundation is resuming its monthly office hours <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_GLAM_team/Office_Hours…> for 2021. These meetings are intended as a forum for Wikimedians and GLAM professionals to share ideas, conversations, and creativity. The January meeting will introduce the Foundation's latest round of project grants for community organizing <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project> and we'll be joined by program officer Marti Johnson. These grants are for individuals, groups, or organizations to run projects that benefit the Wikimedia movement. The meetings will take place in Zoom on Monday 25 January 4.30-5.30pm UTC <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/99588568064> and Tuesday 26 January 9.30am-10.30pm UTC <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/91745569202>. The February meeting will focus on analytics. Wikimedia Switzerland and Wikimedia Israel will talk about their collaboration to localize and extend the Cassandra tool <https://stats.wikimedia.swiss/>. Trilce Navarrete and Elena Villaespesa will share their analysis of the consumption of museum images on Wikipedia, Digital Heritage Consumption: The Case of the Metropolitan Museum of Art <https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/riviste/magazen/2020/2/digital-heritage-…>. The meetings will take place in Zoom on Monday 22 February 3.30-4.30pm UTC <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/97668163260> and Tuesday 23 February 9.30-10.30 UTC <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/99724198753>. We hope to see many of you there. We'll add and update information for our monthly office hours here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_GLAM_team/Office_Hours… All my best, Fiona -- Fiona Romeo (she/her) Senior Manager, GLAM & Culture Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

3 years, 2 months

Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, February 23rd

by Hilary K Thorsen

Hello everyone, We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, February 23rd at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. We will be hearing from Jason Evans, Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales, on adding bibliographic data to Wikidata. The call details are below. Everyone is welcome to attend the call. To receive notifications about upcoming calls and meeting notes you can subscribe to the ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ld4-wikidata>. If you aren't able to attend, the meetings are recorded and meeting notes available on Google Drive<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n>. The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Community and investigates how libraries can contribute to and better integrate library metadata with Wikidata to improve access to library resources on the web. The Affinity Group calls provide an informal space to share information and learn more about Wikidata. Call Details: Date and Time: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210223T170000&p…>) Zoom link to join meeting: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/97364148094?pwd=Q1JhcGlTYkI2T0hUUVl5V29aSTAwZz09 Password: 345712 Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IV6TK6JE5tHKO2fga801HnKFBQNQcwN-j58dhDT…<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IV6TK6JE5tHKO2fga801HnKFBQNQcwN-j58dhDT…> Working Hours: Join us for a collaborative hour of editing and Wikidata practice. We will provide a project for the hour, and you’re always welcome to bring your own projects to work on. This is a space for community and skill-building. We welcome your questions and your expertise about all things Wikidata. Subscribe to the ld4-wikidata Google Group <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__groups.google.com_d_fo…> for an announcement of the next working hour. Upcoming Working Hour dates: * Friday, February 19, 2021 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 18:00 UTC / 7:00pm CET (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210219T180000&p…>) on ways to enhance representation of scholarship related to Wikidata and Libraries in Wikidata * Monday, March 1, 2021 at 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET / 19:00 UTC / 8:00pm CET (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210301T190000&p…>) * Friday, March 19, 2021 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 18:00 UTC / 7:00pm CET (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210319T170000&p…>) Communication: Ld4-wikidata Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata #wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: http://bit.ly/ld4slack Notes in public LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n Website: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr… On behalf of the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group co-facilitators, Hilary Thorsen Resource Sharing Librarian Stanford Libraries thorsenh(a)stanford.edu 650-285-9429

3 years, 2 months

This Month in GLAM: January 2021

by The 'This Month in GLAM' team

3 years, 2 months

Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, February 9th

by Hilary K Thorsen

Hello everyone, We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, February 9th at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210209T170000&p…>). We will be hearing from historians Mikki Brock (W&L University) and Chris Langley (Newman University), Project Directors for Mapping the Scottish Reformation<https://mappingthescottishreformation.org/>. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Strathmartine Trust, the project uses Wikidata as a store for information about Scottish clergy gleaned from manuscripts dating from 1560 to 1698; Wikidata exports are then used to populate interactive maps that allow the end user to access data about the Scottish clergy in an efficient, accurate, and comprehensive manner. Call Details Date and Time: February 9, 2021 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210209T170000&p…>) Zoom link to join meeting: <https://stanford.zoom.us/j/92323291257?pwd=eHNBZGdla1F5QmZySkExTGxvWWtzdz09> https://stanford.zoom.us/j/94734701474?pwd=QkdNR29OQUZmMjRUaGhjeE9ObmhBUT09 <https://stanford.zoom.us/j/94734701474?pwd=QkdNR29OQUZmMjRUaGhjeE9ObmhBUT09> Password: 758198 Agenda: <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1436bhpcKEPjaLm9ITZ6x35TWgl5MA2TiQjabkQB…> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mlgDczP_R3yNVYcvTTQSa8_woG_Kv6YTdJLgQ55… Working Hours Join us for a collaborative hour of editing and Wikidata practice. We will provide a project for the hour, and you’re always welcome to bring your own projects to work on. Upcoming dates * Wikidata Working Hour * Friday, February 19, 2021 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 18:00 UTC / 7:00pm CET (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210219T180000&p…>) * Wikidata Affinity Group Call * Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210223T170000&p…>) * Wikidata Working Hour * Monday, March 1, 2021 at 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET / 19:00 UTC / 8:00pm CET (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210201T190000&p…>) We also have a new WikiProject landing page on Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> Communication: Ld4-wikidata Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata #wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: http://bit.ly/ld4slack Notes in public LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n Website: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr… On behalf of the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group co-facilitators: Hilary Thorsen Resource Sharing Librarian Stanford Libraries thorsenh(a)stanford.edu 650-285-9429

3 years, 2 months

What happened in GLAM in January?

by Romaine Wiki

Hello all! What happened with GLAM in January? Let us know and write a (short) report about it for the newsletter 'This Month in GLAM' so that the worldwide and local Wikimedia community can read what happened in your area. Also this will encourage others to participate and donate material. You can start writing here: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom If your country/area isn't mentioned on the page, you can always add it to: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/January_2021/Contents Please mention also the coming GLAM activities on our calendar on: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Calendar/February_2021 Deadline: 8 February If anyone needs help/explanation about the newsletter, please ask! Thanks & greetings! Romaine --- http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Romaine

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