Hi all,
The American Library Association meeting is later this week in Washington
DC. What sessions are there on Wikipedia, Wikidata and other projects?
I know of a few (below). What else is out there?
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Friday
HOT TOPIC: Wikipedia for Health
6:00 – 6:15 pm, Washington Convention Center, OCLC Booth 1647
Sharon Streams, Director, WebJunction
Learn to evaluate Wikipedia's health and medical topics.
Saturday
10:30 – 11:30 am, Washington Convention Center, Room 207B
OCLC Linked Data Roundtable: Stories from the Front
During this session, a panel of experts will share their current activities
and recent experiences with linked data (including Wikidata!) including
updates on OCLC's initiatives, an LC update on BIBFRAME, and more. Q&A will
follow the panelists' brief presentations. Panelists include:
Andrew Lih, Wikimedia DC - Outreach and GLAM
Matt Miller, Library of Congress
Anchalee "Joy" Panigabutra-Roberts, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Monday:
News You Can Use Session:
OCLC Research Update: Active Engagement
10:30 – 11:30 am, Washington Convention Center, Room 151A
OCLC Research examines the challenges and issues currently facing libraries
and explores new and emerging areas of librarianship. In this session,
Andrew Pace, Executive Director for Technical Research, will explain OCLC
Research’s continuous cycle of active engagement with institutions;
examples will include current discovery and access projects, open content,
and Wikipedia, as well as details of OCLC’s recent linked data prototype.
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Director of Library Trends and User Research, will
share progress on case study research of public libraries responding to the
opioid crisis with community partners. And Chela Weber, Senior Program
Officer, Research Library Partnership, will talk about the work the
partnership is doing with libraries and archives in the area of special
collections. Time for Q&A will follow the presentations.