Hello everyone!
Over 2021-22, OpenRefine is being extended with Structured Data on
Wikimedia Commons (SDC) support. This project is funded by a Wikimedia
Foundation Project Grant [1].
The OpenRefine team has made quite a bit of progress in the past months. We
warmly invite you to a community meetup [2] with updates and a first demo
of the newly developed SDC editing functionalities in OpenRefine. Bring
your questions!
** When? *Tuesday, February 22, at 15:00-17:00 UTC (check the time in your
timezone) [3].
** For whom?* For anyone who is curious about the current status of SDC
support in OpenRefine!
** Where?* Online, via Zoom. The event's info page [2] has the link.
* The meeting will be recorded and the recording will be published to
Wikimedia Commons afterwards.
Check the event page [2] for more info. We hope to see you there!
Sandra (User:Spinster / User:SFauconnier)
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/CS&S/Structured_Data_on_Wiki…
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Community_meetup_22_F…
[3] https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1645542013
Hello everyone,
We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1644339607>). For the first half of the call, we’ll have Andy Mabbett (Wikimedian in Residence, ORCID) talking about the “Cite Q" template in Wikipedia that uses data from Wikidata and works in multiple languages. In the second half, Crystal Clements (University of Washington Libraries) will join us to help set the framework for a future discussion addressing ethical concerns surrounding representation of gender (and personal demographic information more broadly) for living persons in Wikidata that is planned for our March 22nd Wikidata Affinity Group call.
The call details are below. Everyone is welcome to attend. If you aren't able to attend, the meetings are recorded and meeting notes are available on Google Drive<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n>. 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>.
The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the 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 8, 2022 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1644339607>)
Zoom link to join meeting: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/92753960379?pwd=czZtN2lzNjZZb05FWldyQ0lIUnhVZz09
Password: 841792
Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n4FkfAUUHIMC7BO10ACVLhVWbvu4-2ztrbKWXlt…
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://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata> for an announcement of the next working hour.
Upcoming Working Hour<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…>:
* Friday, February 4, 2022 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 18:00 UTC / 7:00pm CET (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1643997641>)
* Monday, February 14, 2021 at 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET / 19:00 UTC / 8:00pm CET (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1644865221>)
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
Hello everyone,
Since 2019, it is possible to add structured data to files on Wikimedia Commons [1] (SDC = Structured Data on Commons), but adding structured 'depicts' annotations remains a challenging task, particularly since there is no strong guidance on use of standard controlled vocabularies. Also such vocabularies can't always meet the needs of highly diverse media collections and multi-lingual & multi-cultural contexts.
But there are possible pathways to create more structured and user-friendly workflows for the application of specialist vocabularies, such as Iconclass [2], when it comes to images of fine art in particular.
Myself (a UX designer & experienced Wikidata / Wikibase user), an art historian and DH researcher - Dr Karin de Wild, and the developer of the Iconclass Browser - Etienne Posthumus, have proposed a small new research grant to Wikimedia [3]. Our goal is to research and prototype several routes to make the addition of standard Iconclass terms as structured data on Commons, as well as the reuse of these data statements, an easier and more intuitive task for users of Commons services, GLAM professionals who may have collections described with Iconclass codes already, or DH researchers who want to run queries against the Wiki Commons query service and discover interesting data correlations across works from multiple collections. This is framed as a research endeavor, rather than just a technical project, because we are aware Iconclass is not a perfect vocabulary, but working closely with the Iconclass community, and the international communities of Wikidata / Wiki Commons users, we will research how the vocabulary can better meet the needs of diverse use-cases, rather than just implementing it without effort to respond to justified critiques.
If this is something of interest to you, please review our application and consider leaving some feedback via the form [4]. All feedback is much appreciated and will help us refine our proposal if we get to Stage II of the process, or help us apply for further funding opportunities in the future.
Many thanks and kind regards,
Lozana
(User: Loz.ross<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Loz.ross>)
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
[2] https://test.iconclass.org/
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_Fund/Ima…
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_Fun…
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Dr. Lozana Rossenova
Researcher @ Open Science Lab, TIB Hannover
Wikibase Community Manager @ NFDI4Culture
ORCID: 0000-0002-5190-1867
Hello fellow Wikimedians, librarians, and bibliophiles,
I hope you are doing alright and staying healthy in this new year. The
January round of the 2022 1Lib1Ref <https://1lib1ref.org/> starts on the
21st birthday of Wikipedia,15th January, and will run until 5th February.
I am thrilled to share that 2 more languages from the CEE region have been
added to the list of languages supported by the CitationHunt tool over the
holidays, which makes it a total of 9 new languages added for the upcoming
round of the campaign. Huge thanks for the volunteer efforts of Guilherme
Gonçalves <https://github.com/eggpi> and Gorana Gomirac
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gorana_Gomirac_(VMRS)>.
As always, participation is pretty simple. All you need to do is add more
references to Wikipedia articles, type #1lib1ref in the Edit Summary. In
case you are a newbie and would like to learn how to add references to
Wikipedia articles, Open Foundation West Africa <https://ofwafrica.org/> is
hosting an online Citation Masterclass on 14th January at 4 PM UTC. Sign up
here <https://t.co/ViqhZiJxc7>.
If you are already familiar with editing Wikipedia and would like to
experiment a bit, we are piloting a couple of contribution methods for
advanced contributors
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate#…>
in the January 2022 round.
*If you are an organizer, remember to add your local events to the campaign
dashboard
<https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/1lib1ref_january_2022/overv…>,
so we can learn and track activities happening across the world.*
Check the blogpost for more information about the campaign :
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/12/16/1lib1ref-2022
See you all in a couple of days!
Regards
Satdeep
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Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Program Officer
GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>