I am very pleased to announce that Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC are
working in collaboration to host the first national Wikimedia conference in
the United States!
Here are the details for the conference:
Dates: Friday, May 30, 2014 - Sunday, June 1, 2014
Location: New York Law School (185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013)
Website: http://wikiconferenceusa.org
Email: wikicon(a)wikimedianyc.org
Registration: http://wikiconusa.eventbrite.org/
For more information, please review our official press release below! We
hope you will join us and help us spread the word!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCon_USA_2014_Press_Release_v1.p…
Thanks,
Richard (User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
Hi Andrea,
in 2009, I created a mapping from "STW Thesaurus for Economics" to Dbpedia. The links on the RDFa pages and the download dataset are still present and minimally adjusted to new versions on http://zbw.eu/stw. The approach, as described in http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-538/ldow2009_paper7.pdf, is outdated now - particularly because it could not use the Wikidata inter-language links.
I wonder if somebody has described a mapping process for a multilingual thesaurus to Wikipedia/Wikidata/DBpedia using today's facilities. Or if perhaps some code for this is already available somewhere.
Cheers, Joachim
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From: Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com<mailto:zanni.andrea84@gmail.com>>
Subject: [libraries] Collaborations with National Libraries over thesauri and authority control
Date: January 21, 2014 at 9:34:56 AM EST
To: "Wikimedia & Libraries" <libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:libraries@lists.wikimedia.org>>, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler(a)wikimedia.de<mailto:mathias.schindler@wikimedia.de>>, Rémi Mathis <remi.mathis(a)wikimedia.fr<mailto:remi.mathis@wikimedia.fr>>, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com<mailto:liamwyatt@gmail.com>>, Cristian Consonni <kikkocristian(a)gmail.com<mailto:kikkocristian@gmail.com>>, Luca Martinelli <martinelliluca(a)gmail.com<mailto:martinelliluca@gmail.com>>, "Klein, Max" <kleinm(a)oclc.org<mailto:kleinm@oclc.org>>
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Hi all,
I hope you are well.
I would like to ask you if you are aware of any project concerning the collaboration of a National Library with Wikipedia, regarding things as theasuri and authority control.
Last summer,
the National Library of Florence (BNCF) approached Wikimedia Italia for a project of synchronization of the Italian thesaurus (thesaurus del Nuovo Soggettario [1]) with Wikipedia.
They thesaurus linked to Wikipedia, but Wikipedia didn't link back.
We asked the community and then synchronized the links between the Italian Wikipedia and the BNCF Thesaurus (now around 8'000).
The links were later uploaded within a property in Wikidata (see property:P508[2]), and are now recalled automatically by Template:Thesaurus BNCF[3] on it.wikipedia.
Right now, the BNCF would be eager to know if other theasuri had the same idea, as for the multilingual nature of Wikidata it would be "easy" to link thesauri in different languages, per Wikidata.
It is the very same idea that animated the VIAF project: right now, Wikidata contains several identifiers for people and books, being a "super-authority control" (as Max called it :-).
Using Wikidata as a bridge/cross walk would be very important and fairly "cheap": synchronizing 2 different thesauri isn't normally a easy job, but Wikipedias have already done the difficult part.
The BNCF team has been working in the past years to connect other subject authority control lists. At the time being, 4000 tems in Italian thesaurus link to their equivalent LCSH term, and the LSCH linked back in the last weeks, via SKOS/RDF.
The BNCF is doing the same with the French authority control RAMEU [4], from BNF, and the European community one EUROVOC [5].
So, the question is:
are you aware of any project like this? Does your library mantain a thesaurus and aiming to put that on Wikipedia/Wikidata?
Aubrey
[1] http://thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/ricerca.php
[2] http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P508<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FProperty…>
[3] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Thesaurus_BNCF
[4] http://data.bnf.fr/
[5] http://eurovoc.europa.eu/
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Hi all,
I hope you are well.
I would like to ask you if you are aware of any project concerning the
collaboration of a National Library with Wikipedia, regarding things as
theasuri and authority control.
Last summer,
the National Library of Florence (BNCF) approached Wikimedia Italia for a
project of synchronization of the Italian thesaurus (thesaurus del Nuovo
Soggettario [1]) with Wikipedia.
They thesaurus linked to Wikipedia, but Wikipedia didn't link back.
We asked the community and then synchronized the links between the Italian
Wikipedia and the BNCF Thesaurus (now around 8'000).
The links were later uploaded within a property in Wikidata (see
property:P508[2]), and are now recalled automatically by Template:Thesaurus
BNCF[3] on it.wikipedia.
Right now, the BNCF would be eager to know if other theasuri had the same
idea, as for the multilingual nature of Wikidata it would be "easy" to link
thesauri in different languages, per Wikidata.
It is the very same idea that animated the VIAF project: right now,
Wikidata contains several identifiers for people and books, being a
"super-authority control" (as Max called it :-).
Using Wikidata as a bridge/cross walk would be very important and fairly
"cheap": synchronizing 2 different thesauri isn't normally a easy job, but
Wikipedias have already done the difficult part.
The BNCF team has been working in the past years to connect other subject
authority control lists. At the time being, 4000 tems in Italian thesaurus
link to their equivalent LCSH term, and the LSCH linked back in the last
weeks, via SKOS/RDF.
The BNCF is doing the same with the French authority control RAMEU [4],
from BNF, and the European community one EUROVOC [5].
So, the question is:
are you aware of any project like this? Does your library mantain a
thesaurus and aiming to put that on Wikipedia/Wikidata?
Aubrey
[1] http://thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/ricerca.php
[2] http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P508<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FProperty…>
[3] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Thesaurus_BNCF
[4] http://data.bnf.fr/
[5] http://eurovoc.europa.eu/
Hi everyone,
This is an exciting announcement for those interested in the Wikipedia Libraries Project. For those of you working in libraries (or anyone wanting to attend!) we are having a meeting at the American Libraries Association midwinter meeting in Philadelphia (Saturday January 25th). We have a number of academic libraries who are interested in supporting Wikipedians in this novel way. Hopefully a lot more to report in the new year!
Merrilee
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Subject: [OpenGLAM] Position: Wikipedia Affiliate, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Position announcement: Wikipedia Affiliate, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
(also posted at
http://chnm.gmu.edu/news/position-announcement-wikipedia-affiliate-roy-rose…)
In conjunction with The Wikipedia Library
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library> project,
the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
<http://chnm.gmu.edu/> (RRCHNM) at George Mason University is seeking
applicants for a "Wikipedia Affiliate." This is an unpaid, year-long,
remote research position beginning March 1, 2014 and ending February 28,
2015 that entitles the affiliate to full library privileges at George
Mason University <http://library.gmu.edu/>, including proxied access to
all online materials to which the GMU Libraries subscribe: more than 400
databases, thousands of scholarly journals and mainstream periodicals,
and hundreds of ebooks. The position is designed to give research
library access to a Wikipedia editor who does not currently have such
access or who has only limited access to scholarly resources: the
purpose of the position is to help improve Wikipedia's reliability and
accuracy by providing Wikipedia editors with access to the best
scholarly information resources while providing a model for other
universities to do likewise.
Qualifications
The affiliate will be an experienced Wikipedia editor with at least one
year of regular activity contributing to Wikipedia on historical topics
in any field, region, or period. The affiliate will also be a thorough
researcher who is committed to improving Wikipedia articles by
consulting and citing reliable, scholarly sources and who is a lucid
writer of text for Wikipedia encyclopedia articles on historical topics.
An undergraduate or graduate degree in History, Art History, or a
related discipline is desirable but not required.
Position Description and Duties
During the affiliate year, the affiliate will conduct scholarly research
using the library resources of George Mason University with the aim of
significantly improving the accuracy and reliability of at least 25
Wikipedia articles on historical topics, preferably articles within a
particular historical scope (for example: modern Russian and Soviet
history, U.S. Civil War history, the history of late imperial China).
Near the end of the affiliate year, the affiliate will write a brief
report listing the Wikipedia articles he or she has contributed to and
improved over the course of the year, describing how his or her access
to GMU library resources has helped increase the reliability of
Wikipedia on this topic and analyzing whether the affiliate program
could serve as a model for other universities. The affiliate will also
be asked to give a brief talk on the same subject to RRCHNM, either in
person or via a remote technology such as Skype.
Application Instructions
To apply, please send the following documents to Dr. Amanda French at
afrench5(a)gmu.edu <mailto:afrench5@gmu.edu> by January 20, 2014:
1. A standard résumé or curriculum vitae that also includes
* a link to your Wikipedia profile and
* at least three links to Wikipedia articles on historical topics that
you have contributed to.
2. A cover letter that includes
* a description of your background, including why you contribute to
Wikipedia and what level of historical expertise and interest you
have in which fields, regions, or periods;
* a summary of what access you currently have (or don't have) to
research materials such as databases and scholarly journals;
* an explanation of why you want to become a Wikipedia Affiliate to
RRCHNM; and
* a brief outline of the historical topic(s) and/or specific Wikipedia
articles you would focus on during your affiliate year.
All applicants will be notified of the outcome of the search by the end
of February 2014. The affiliate year will begin March 1, 2014.
About the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Since 1994 under the founding direction of Roy Rosenzweig, the Center
for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University has used
digital media and computer technology to democratize history, to
incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage
popular participation in presenting and preserving the past. The center
itself is a democratic, collaborative space where over fifty scholars,
technologists, and researchers work together to advance the state of the
art.
RRCHNM uses digital media and technology to preserve and present history
online, transform scholarship across the humanities, and advance
historical education and understanding. Each year RRCHNMâs many
project websites receive over 20 million visitors, and over a million
people rely on its digital tools to teach, learn, and conduct research.
George Mason University is a public research university located
approximately 14 miles from Washington, D.C., with over 30,000 students.
Global education and research are a fundamental part of the
universityâs mission to serve its diverse and international student
body. RRCHNM is part of the Department of History and Art History.
About The Wikipedia Library
The Wikipedia Library connects Wikipedia editors with libraries, open
access resources, paywalled databases, and research experts. We are
working together towards 5 big goals that create an open hub for
conducting research:
* Connect editors with their local library and freely accessible
resources
* Partner to provide free access to paywalled publications,
databases, universities, and libraries
* Build relationships among our community of editors, libraries, and
librarians
* Facilitate research for Wikipedians, helping editors to find and
use sources
* Promote broader open access in publishing and research
The Wikipedia Affiliate to RRCHNM position is based on the Wikipedia
Visiting Scholar idea suggested by Peter Suber at the Harvard Open
Access Project <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/hoap>.
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Following a talk I gave at Northwestern University this fall, a nice little
article about African-language Wikipedias appeared in the newsletter of the
Africana Libraries Newsletter:
http://www.indiana.edu/~libsalc/african/aln/ALN132.pdf (2nd page)
I'm especially pleased about this because I would love to see African
studies departments (and especially African language classes) to
incorporate contributing to Wikipedia into their curriculum, and I think
librarians are well-placed to encourage this and do the training. Thanks to
Marcia Tiede at Northwestern for writing the article.
best,
Phoebe
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