Hello everyone, Our next biweekly LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call is Tuesday, May 19th at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. We’re delighted to have João Alexandre Peschanski talking about his work leading Wikidata projects with a focus on education in a presentation, “If Wikidata is the solution… what is the need?” He is the president of Wiki Movimento Brasil, professor at Faculdade Cásper Líbero and research supervisor at the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics. The call details are below. 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>ta>. If you aren't able to attend, the meetings are recorded and meeting notes available on Google Drive<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7b…-n>. The LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the Linked Data for Production project<https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=10456816…67>. One of the goals of the project is understanding 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, May 19th at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=2020…) Zoom link to join meeting: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188 Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LKvW03hDemLNP-E9wb52suHkVa1HYETq_EcRz45… Wikidata Working Hour: At our next Wikidata Working Hour, a time for hands-on work in Wikidata, we’ll continue contributing to Wikidata WikiProject COVID-19, but with an emphasis on adding references for the 1Lib1Ref campaign<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref&…ef>. Date and time: Friday, May 29, 2020 at 11:30am PDT / 2:30pm EDT / 18:30 UTC / 8:30pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=2020…) Zoom link to join meeting: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188 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://wiki.duraspace.org/display/LD4P2/LD4-Wikidata+Affinity+Group Cheers, Hilary Hilary Thorsen Wikimedian in Residence Linked Data for Production Project Digital Library Systems and Services Stanford Libraries Stanford, CA 94305 thorsenh(a)stanford.edu 650-285-9429