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 seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing, kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share thoughts at any point during the editing. If you haven't attended previous meetings in the series or would like to revisit working techniques before Friday, you will find recordings of the sessions at the series link below.

You do not need to have attended the previous Wikidata Working Hours in the series to attend this one. If you would like to review any of the recording/material from the previous sessions, you can access the event pages on our series project pagehttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/Wikidata_Working_Hour_Summer-Fall_Project_2022#Past_Wikidata_Working_Hours.

Date and time: Friday, September 30, 2022 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 7:00pm CEST (Time zone converterhttps://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1664557259)

Zoom link to join: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/96280244890?pwd=dVdTU1l0Qkljcko5TUFONUloVVlPUT09 Password: 983196

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

Subsequent Working Hours will cover uploading batch metadata for the children’s books 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: http://bit.ly/ld4slack 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 Friday!

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