Hi Bob,
As you are a librarian let me tell you what we do as Wikimedia Italia.
In the last two years, we have been growing strong relationships with
libraries and librarians.
We have developed a collaboration with the National Library of Florence,
and last year we created a property in Wikidata that
linked the terms of the Italian Thesaurus with Wikipedia articles (via
Wikidata).
That was really cool for them, as they we're seeking a way to crosswalk the
thesaurus with other thesauri:
as Wikidata has become a super-authority control (it has many properties
that are identifiers for persons), it can be also a super-thesaurus, as a
hub for national ones.
Moreover, we are experimenting with a local Wikibase, populating it with
bibliographic metadata [1]:
it is a complex project, as we need to find a model for describing
resources and books at different levels (at least "work" -
"edition").
We started it because in the past we had a very good feedback from the
EAGLE project [2],
a joint European project in which Wikimedia Italia is subcontractor.
They are developing a new standardised database for epigraphic metadatahere
(there have been several database scattered across universitiies, and also
several metadata standards): we suggested the creation of a Wikibase, for
that, and after several months we can say the project is a success and the
epigraphic community was stunned with the flexibility and power of
Wikibase. Eventually, some of these data will populate Wikidata.
We also did recently a conference at the National Library of Florence in
which we explained Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikidata, the projects we
think suits the most for libraries. ou can have a look at the November GLAM
report (and previous ones too)[3].
Of course, there is a growing interest about Wikidata, and we hope many
librarians will start contributing.
I just see one, big, limit in all this:
for being *truly* effective, a librarian should know his way around
Wikidata: how to propose properties, chow to discuss with other users, how
to run a bot (or how to bribe a guy with a bot). Wikidata is a brand new
project with a brand new community, it is not "defined" at all and it is
inherently complex. For example, I was one of the proponents of the
WikiProjects Books [4], but this stuff is difficult and in the end I quit
(did not have time to folow properly). At the same time, you'd need
professional librarians (and good ones) to find a way to create the right
properties, decide which and how many items create for each book, and
balance all this with the fact that you need to serve Wikimedia projects
(so you need a Wikidata items to be connected to Wikipedia, Wikisource,
Wikiquote, Commons, etc.).
Hope this helps :-)
Aubrey
[1]
http://kant.bncf.net/wikibib/index.php/Pagina_principale
[2]
http://www.eagle-network.eu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
[3]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/November_2014/Contents/…
[4]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Books
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Daniel Mietchen <
daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
we are working on a research proposal about integrating Wikidata with
research workflows:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research .
This already includes two GLAMs, and we are in discussions with a
third one to join in.
In any case, we are taking a lot of inspiration from GLAM-wiki
collaborations, and comments/ edits from this community would be most
welcome!
Thanks and cheers,
Daniel
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Barbara Fischer
<barbara.fischer(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hi Bob,
in Germany we have only started to invite GLAM institutions to join the
Wikidata community. Yet as far as I know, no institution has committed
themselves to collaborate on a regular scale. But the interest is high
as we
can see when offering information on Wikidata on
conferences. See this
enthusiastic tweet a week ago.
best regards
Barbara Fischer
Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften
Jeweils persönlich von Montag bis Donnerstag für Sie erreichbar
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-(0)44
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2014-12-16 13:58 GMT+01:00 Bob Kosovsky <bobkosovsky(a)nypl.org>rg>:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> This past Sunday WikimediaNYC had the opportunity of training on
Wikidata,
> courtesy of user emw. His slide presentation
is here:
>
>
http://www.slideshare.net/_emw/up-and-running-with-wikidata
>
> His nutshell summary: Wikidata is a way to bring structured data to
> Wikimedia projects.
>
> Although I knew a little about Wikidata already, his presentation and
> personal revelation ("I almost never edit Wikipedia now; all my editing
is
> on Wikidata") convinced me that I have
to be more active on Wikidata
(at
> least now I know how to begin being more
active).
>
> So I'm wondering whether there are any GLAM projects that regularly
> undertake Wikidata editing/integration as part of their activities.
>
>
> Other suggested activities from WM/NYC meeting are listed here:
>
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC#Activities_for_the_Wikid…
If you've never done any Wikidata, I highly recommend the Wikidata Game:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/
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