Hello Librarians and library lovers,
(Sorry for cross posting)
>From May 15th to June 5th 2021, we will be joining together once again to
continue providing reliable and factual information to the world through
Wikipedia and the #1lib1ref campaign. To participate is easy, simply add a
citation to Wikipedia!![1]
*May Experiments *
This May we are focused on:
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growing the campaign in East and South East Asia with local affiliates
-- if you want to help contact Venus Lui via (vlui-ctr(a)wikimedia.org) or
me.
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working closely with AfLIA to sustain our relationship with the
Librarians network in Africa. Last year the participation from African
Librarians was overwhelming, recording about 84% of the total numbers of
edits attained (33,257). This surged our campaign to a staggering increase
of 394%YoY for the May campaign.[2]
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Supporting our long standing partner for the campaign, IFLA as they
explore citations on Wikidata [3][4]
How can you engage?
We invite you to engage in three ways:
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Make an edit - Participate globally and virtually by adding citations to
Wikipedia.[5]
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Organise - Lead a community activity or event in your library, country
or region.[6]
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Amplify - Share and just keep sharing the campaign within your networks
and help us reach out to library and research communities around the
world.[7]
Join local events or editathons
If you are organising an activity virtually or providing a space to teach
or train people with an interest in the campaign, please add your event(s)
here.[8] In light of the pandemic, we strongly encourage virtual activities
and advise everyone to follow the WHO health guidelines.[9] If restrictions
have been lifted in your country and are considering organising in-person
events, kindly follow the Wikimedia COVID risk assessment for events.[10]
Ensure all your contributions are recorded by using the #1Lib1Ref hashtag
in your edit summary! Add your activity to the campaign dashboard to help
us track the activities happening across the globe.[11] This is very
important for us to monitor the reach and success of the initiative.
Learn more in our office hour
Join the next campaigns office hour on Thursday 13th May at 3:00pm UTC,
where we will share about strategies in Asia and Africa, under the
theme “exploring
regional or thematic approaches to campaigns in tackling topics of interest
”.[12]
Please tell your library, researcher and knowledge-loving friends about
#1Lib1Ref in May. We need everyone's help to make Wikipedia more reliable!
You can join the 1Lib1Ref community via the Libraries (
libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org), and 1Lib1Ref (1lib1ref(a)lists.wikimedia.org)
mailing lists, or by joining the Wikimedia + Libraries User Group.[13]
Cheers,
Felix Nartey
[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref
[2] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Lessons/May_…
[3] -
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:IFLA_Wikidata_Working_Group/1Lib1Ref
[4] -
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:IFLA_Wikidata_Working_Group/1Lib1Ref
[5] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MyLanguage/The_Wikiped…
[6] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MyLanguage/The_Wikiped…
[7] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Share
[8] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Eve…
[9] - https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
[10] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Risk_assessment_during_COVID-19
[11] -
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/1lib1ref_may_2021/programs
[12] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Campaigns_Team#Office_…
[13] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_and_Libraries_User_Group
--
Felix Nartey
Senior Program Officer, Campaigns
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi everyone!
Next Monday and Tuesday, we have one more GLAM & Culture office hours by
the WMF GLAM team. These ones will be about Structured Data on Commons.
There will be a meeting on *Monday, 26 April, 3.30 pm - 4.30 pm UTC*,
followed by another on *Tuesday, 27 April, 11.00 am - 12.00 pm UTC*.
On the first day, Carly Bogen, the Foundation's Program Manager for
Structured Data, will talk about the new Media Search, Image
Recommendations, and provide updates on the Structured Data Across
Wikimedia project. Jennie Choi, General Manager of Collection Information
for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will also present her process of batch
uploading Structured Data on Commons.
On the second day, John Sampson Tiberius Cummings, Wikimedian in Residence
at UNESCO, and Alicia Fagerving, Developer at Wikimedia Sverige (WMSE),
will share Wikimedia Sweden's plans with Structured Data, GLAM content, and
Wiki Loves Monuments.
Find the Zoom links to both meetings here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_GLAM_team/Office_Hours>
.
Best,
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer; GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi everyone!
Next Monday and Tuesday, we have one more GLAM & Culture office hours by
the WMF GLAM team. These ones will be about Structured Data on Commons.
There will be a meeting on *Monday, 26 April, 3.30 pm - 4.30 pm UTC*,
followed by another on *Tuesday, 27 April, 11.00 am - 12.00 pm UTC*.
On the first day, Carly Bogen, the Foundation's Program Manager for
Structured Data, will talk about the new Media Search, Image
Recommendations, and provide updates on the Structured Data Across
Wikimedia project. Jennie Choi, General Manager of Collection Information
for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will also present her process of batch
uploading Structured Data on Commons.
On the second day, John Sampson Tiberius Cummings, Wikimedian in Residence
at UNESCO, and Alicia Fagerving, Developer at Wikimedia Sverige (WMSE),
will share Wikimedia Sweden's plans with Structured Data, GLAM content, and
Wiki Loves Monuments.
Find the Zoom links to both meetings here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_GLAM_team/Office_Hours>
.
Best,
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer; GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear fellow Wiki-brarians,
IFLA's Wikidata Working Group is offering a Train-the-Trainers workshop on
the 21st of April at 15:00 UTC to learn how to host an event to contribute
to Wikidata as part of this year's #1Lib1Ref campaign. More information
about the workshop and a link to register are below.
I hope you'll join us!
Best,
Megs
--
President, Wikimedia New York City
*From:* ifla-l-request(a)iflalists.org <ifla-l-request(a)iflalists.org> *On
Behalf Of *Stacy Allison-Cassin
*Sent:* Thursday, 8 April 2021 17:53
*To:* ifla-l(a)iflalists.org
*Subject:* [IFLA-L] IFLA Wikidata Working Group #1lib1ref Campaign workshop
*1Lib1Ref - Start with adding sources on Wikidata! *
In 2019 IFLA started a working group on Wikidata and Wikibase of motivated
professionals. This group aims to coordinate actions, events and
preparation of documents to leverage Wikidata and Wikibase in support of
documenting collections and support capacity building in linked data,
structured data, and cataloguing work.
>From 15 May to 5 June 2021, the Wikimedia Foundation will again launch
the #1Lib1Ref
campaign <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref>
to invite library staff and their audiences to improve the reliability of
sources in Wikipedia.
In order to support those interested in expanding this movement by offering
a multitude of tools to contribute to the Wikipedia #1Lib1Ref campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref>, IFLA’s
Wikidata and Wikibase Working Group offers the possibility for 50
participants to attend a Train-The-Trainers workshop on the 21st of April
at 16:00 CET to learn how to set up an event to contribute to Wikidata
during the campaign period.
We will also provide resources that can help you learn how to edit on
Wikidata, and show the advantages that Wikidata provides for improved
discoverability of library collections.
Details and registration can be found here: https://www.ifla.org/node/93813
For more information on using Wikidata and Wikibase in the context of
professional library work see the IFLA video series featuring work located
at the National Library of Israel, the National Library of Wales, the
Germany National Library, and others on topics such as metadata, equity,
and linked data. All videos are subtitled in French, Spanish, Portuguese,
Arabic, and Chinese:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV81siTMahbsjakNDIdFwbIvdyNqwRNPo
Best,
Stacy Allison-Cassin on behalf of the IFLA Wikidata Working Group
Stacy Allison-Cassin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
Faculty of Information
University of Toronto
Stacy Allison-Cassin, PhD
Associate Librarian (on leave)
Department of Student Learning and Academic Success
Scott Library, York University
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Call for Proposals: 2021 LD4 Conference on Linked Data, “Building Connections Together”
Submission deadline: Monday, April 12, 2021
Website: http://bit.ly/ld42021
The deadline to propose content for the 2021 LD4 Conference is fast approaching! All proposals are due Monday, April 12, by 11:59 pm PST.
The 2021 LD4 Conference<http://bit.ly/ld42021> will be held online from July 12-23. We are accepting proposals for content in a variety of formats and we invite you to submit your proposal<https://forms.gle/h8BVmSHrre8h4Xsy7> to be part of creating this conference! By bringing together a broad range of perspectives, the conference seeks to foster a community of practice for linked data in cultural heritage institutions.
The conference will include activities tailored to all levels of experience with linked data, with a focus on themes of:
* Linked data education
* Inclusion of diverse voices
* Practical steps toward linked data adoption
* Reliability and availability of linked data
* Incorporating linked data into day-to-day library operations
* Linked data advocacy
We are accepting proposals for content in a variety of formats and especially encourage proposals (conference or pre-conference) from participants from groups and regions that are traditionally underrepresented in conferences related to linked data in libraries and other cultural heritage organizations, as well as proposals from early career professionals. Successful proposals will focus on concrete ways that linked data impacts GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) institutions, and will share pathways that allow others to participate in linked data. Please see the full Call for Proposals<https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/2021ld4conf/call-for-proposals?authus…> for additional details.
Questions about the conference and this call for proposals? See our website bit.ly/ld42021<http://bit.ly/ld42021> or contact 2021_ld4conf_chairs(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:2021_ld4conf_chairs@googlegroups.com>
Thanks,
Gloria
Gloria Gonzalez
Senior Agile Product Owner
Zepheira, a division of EBSCO
https://www.ebsco.com/