Hi everyone,
Over the summer and into the early fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity
Group<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Af…
will be offering a series of Wikidata Working
Hours<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Af…
to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by
adding data about diverse children’s
books<https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/literature-resources/ccbc-diversit…
from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison to
Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive
space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata,
love children’s books, or have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to.
The seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating
contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to
generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following
sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We
will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing,
kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share
thoughts at any point during the editing. If you haven't attended previous meetings in
the series or would like to revisit working techniques before Friday, you will find
recordings of the sessions at the series link below.
You do not need to have attended the previous Wikidata Working Hours in the series to
attend this one. If you would like to review any of the recording/material from the
previous sessions, you can access the event pages on our series project
page<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Aff…rs>.
Date and time: Friday, September 30, 2022 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 7:00pm
CEST (Time zone
converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1664557259>)
Zoom link to join:
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/96280244890?pwd=dVdTU1l0Qkljcko5TUFONUloVVlPUT09
Password: 983196
Event page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
Subsequent Working Hours will cover uploading batch metadata for the children’s books to
Wikidata using OpenRefine and Quickstatments, and using SPARQL to query and visualize the
data we’ve added to Wikidata. You don’t have to attend every session to benefit from the
series, but attending whenever possible will offer the best experience in terms of
applying skills and tools to a single data set. We’ll also record the demo portions of
each Working Hour, so you can always catch up on anything you miss.
To be sure to receive announcements about future Wikidata Working hours, subscribe to the
ld4-wikidata Google
Group<https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata>ta>.
Other ways to follow what’s going on with the Affinity Group:
Ld4-wikidata Google group:
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata<https://groups.google.com…
#wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: <http://bit.ly/ld4slack>
https://join.slack.com/t/ld4/shared_invite/zt-1fg5hdxjm-1AzNKtoR~T0selFxBHK…
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…
We hope to see you on Friday!
Hilary Thorsen
Resource Sharing Librarian
Stanford Libraries
thorsenh(a)stanford.edu
650-285-9429