Hi everyone,

Over the summer and into the early fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Grouphttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hourshttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by adding data about diverse children’s bookshttps://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/literature-resources/ccbc-diversity-statistics/ 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 sixth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover creating items for books (works and editions) in Wikidata.

You do not need to have attended the previous Wikidata Working Hours in the series to attend this one.

Date and time: Monday, September 12, 2022 at 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET / 18:00 UTC / 8:00pm CEST (Time zone converterhttps://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1663005656)

Zoom link to join: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/98501916423?pwd=eVprL3NIV3ZBd0FPZHIxMWljMmNrUT09 Password: 708707

Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gro...

Subsequent Working Hours will cover an open editing review session for contributors and publishers, uploading batch metadata 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 Grouphttps://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata.

Other ways to follow what’s going on with the Affinity Group:

Ld4-wikidata Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidatahttps://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata

#wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/ld4/shared_invite/zt-1fg5hdxjm-1AzNKtoR~T0selFxBHKt...

Notes in public LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-nhttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n

Website: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gro...https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group

We hope to see you on Monday!

Hilary Thorsen Resource Sharing Librarian Stanford Libraries thorsenh@stanford.edu 650-285-9429