My apologies if this has been discussed before. I just happened to see Seb Chan speak at the Digital Humanities Winter Institute talk about work they are doing at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum to figure out how best to present their collections on the Web.
They are doing a really nice job of linking out to Wikipedia at a granular level in their item level displays. For example the page for Winslow Homer [1] which links out to Wikipedia, Google's Freebase, Getty, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
One really neat thing they are doing is something they call "discordances" which highlight entities (people, companies, etc) related to items in their collection that *do not* have Wikipedia articles, or it is unclear which article should be related [2]. The idea being that these discordances could be of use to people at Wikipedia editathons who are looking for notable topics to write about.
Seb has written a bit about this work [3]. I was wondering if this might be something the GLAM community could do, to share these discordances and make them known to the Wikipedia editing community at large. Or maybe this is something we are doing already, and I just don't know about it? I really like having a memorable name for these lists I guess.
If you have a list like this would you be willing to share it here, on the discussion list?
//Ed
[1] http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18041949/ [2] http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/not-from/wikipedia/ [3] http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2012/discordances-big-to-do-list/
We do have: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_missing_topics * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_red_link_lists but nothing GLAM-specific, as far as I know.
Cheers, Magnus
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Ed Summers ehs@pobox.com wrote:
My apologies if this has been discussed before. I just happened to see Seb Chan speak at the Digital Humanities Winter Institute talk about work they are doing at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum to figure out how best to present their collections on the Web.
They are doing a really nice job of linking out to Wikipedia at a granular level in their item level displays. For example the page for Winslow Homer [1] which links out to Wikipedia, Google's Freebase, Getty, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
One really neat thing they are doing is something they call "discordances" which highlight entities (people, companies, etc) related to items in their collection that *do not* have Wikipedia articles, or it is unclear which article should be related [2]. The idea being that these discordances could be of use to people at Wikipedia editathons who are looking for notable topics to write about.
Seb has written a bit about this work [3]. I was wondering if this might be something the GLAM community could do, to share these discordances and make them known to the Wikipedia editing community at large. Or maybe this is something we are doing already, and I just don't know about it? I really like having a memorable name for these lists I guess.
If you have a list like this would you be willing to share it here, on the discussion list?
//Ed
[1] http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18041949/ [2] http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/not-from/wikipedia/ [3] http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2012/discordances-big-to-do-list/
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We’ve talked about doing something similar with VIAF – creating a list the VIAF IDs that are connected to the works that are the most widely held by libraries that do not have Wikipedia articles. We could probably also provide some very minimal information that would help getting an article started.
Merrilee
Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer OCLC Research
From: glam-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:glam-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Magnus Manske Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 8:45 AM To: Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public] Subject: Re: [GLAM] Wikipedia Discordances & the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
We do have:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_missing_topics
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_red_link_lists
but nothing GLAM-specific, as far as I know.
Cheers,
Magnus
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Ed Summers ehs@pobox.com wrote:
My apologies if this has been discussed before. I just happened to see Seb Chan speak at the Digital Humanities Winter Institute talk about work they are doing at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum to figure out how best to present their collections on the Web.
They are doing a really nice job of linking out to Wikipedia at a granular level in their item level displays. For example the page for Winslow Homer [1] which links out to Wikipedia, Google's Freebase, Getty, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
One really neat thing they are doing is something they call "discordances" which highlight entities (people, companies, etc) related to items in their collection that *do not* have Wikipedia articles, or it is unclear which article should be related [2]. The idea being that these discordances could be of use to people at Wikipedia editathons who are looking for notable topics to write about.
Seb has written a bit about this work [3]. I was wondering if this might be something the GLAM community could do, to share these discordances and make them known to the Wikipedia editing community at large. Or maybe this is something we are doing already, and I just don't know about it? I really like having a memorable name for these lists I guess.
If you have a list like this would you be willing to share it here, on the discussion list?
//Ed
[1] http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18041949/ [2] http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/not-from/wikipedia/ [3] http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2012/discordances-big-to-do-list/
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Also note, within the next few months, wikidata will be able to hold such information, even if there is no Wikipedia page yet. It might be the logical continuation of read-link-lists.
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Proffitt,Merrilee proffitm@oclc.org wrote:
We’ve talked about doing something similar with VIAF – creating a list the VIAF IDs that are connected to the works that are the most widely held by libraries that do not have Wikipedia articles. We could probably also provide some very minimal information that would help getting an article started.****
Merrilee****
Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer OCLC Research****
*From:* glam-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: glam-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Magnus Manske *Sent:* Tuesday, January 08, 2013 8:45 AM *To:* Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public] *Subject:* Re: [GLAM] Wikipedia Discordances & the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum****
We do have:****
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_missing_topics****
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_red_link_lists****
but nothing GLAM-specific, as far as I know.****
Cheers,****
Magnus****
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Ed Summers ehs@pobox.com wrote:****
My apologies if this has been discussed before. I just happened to see Seb Chan speak at the Digital Humanities Winter Institute talk about work they are doing at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum to figure out how best to present their collections on the Web.
They are doing a really nice job of linking out to Wikipedia at a granular level in their item level displays. For example the page for Winslow Homer [1] which links out to Wikipedia, Google's Freebase, Getty, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
One really neat thing they are doing is something they call "discordances" which highlight entities (people, companies, etc) related to items in their collection that *do not* have Wikipedia articles, or it is unclear which article should be related [2]. The idea being that these discordances could be of use to people at Wikipedia editathons who are looking for notable topics to write about.
Seb has written a bit about this work [3]. I was wondering if this might be something the GLAM community could do, to share these discordances and make them known to the Wikipedia editing community at large. Or maybe this is something we are doing already, and I just don't know about it? I really like having a memorable name for these lists I guess.
If you have a list like this would you be willing to share it here, on the discussion list?
//Ed
[1] http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18041949/ [2] http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/not-from/wikipedia/ [3] http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2012/discordances-big-to-do-list/
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam****
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On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
We do have:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_missing_topics
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_red_link_lists
but nothing GLAM-specific, as far as I know.
Oh, thanks I forgot about those views. When there is a local edit-a-thon at a GLAM I'm thinking it would still be useful to have a context-specific list. That way people could go photograph items, and ask questions of reference staff, etc while they work on their article. Another big reason why sharing these discordances outside of Wikipedia is important is that it shows real (practical) institutional support for Wikipedia.
Again, I'm sorry if this has come up before. I think I might be playing catchup on a conversation that already happened.
//Ed