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 https://twitter.com/hashtag/fwk14 a week ago.
best regards
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2014-12-16 13:58 GMT+01:00 Bob Kosovsky bobkosovsky@nypl.org:
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_Wikida...
If you've never done any Wikidata, I highly recommend the Wikidata Game:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/
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