Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a part-time temporary contractor to
work remotely for 20 hours a week until June 2021. The contractor will
support movement allies, affiliates, and organizers interested in bringing
high impact collections to Wikimedia projects.
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2272132
All my best,
Fiona
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*Fiona Romeo*
Senior Program Manager, GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Greetings everyone,
The PCC is launching a Wikidata Pilot to further advance the movement toward identity management. Stated broadly in its Strategic Directions document, the PCC hopes to “Accelerate the movement toward ubiquitous identifier creation and identity management at the network level … attain an environment where identity management work activity is characterized by much greater proportions and numbers of entities receiving identifiers … strategic partnerships and collaboration existing among cultural heritage organizations, rights management agencies, Wikidata, and others … collaborate with other identity management communities to facilitate and promote the use of unique identifiers.”
More specifically, this Pilot is anticipated to involve
• Comparing ease of use and benefits of Wikidata to other registries (LCNAF, ISNI)
• Assessing the productivity and quality assurance tools that exist (or should exist)
• Learning about the culture of the Wikidata community
The upcoming Pilot was featured in the LD4P Wikidata Affinity Group meeting of June 16 and more background information and discussion can be found in the presentation recording<https://stanford.zoom.us/rec/share/_eAtNuzb_HNLcK_97GzcBJ95MN2-T6a8hHRI-PYO…>, slides<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NpkAQdGGft1Wi2vX0zgMtIxwXWjPq96NtXx…>, and notes<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z1SSAp4c4tftOGW3BbJ6Fxfd8oRIhfzveh0zjeb…>.
Participants can choose to experiment in a range of focus areas based on what is of interest to their own institution, sharing their findings without each being required to delve into all the areas that are covered by the pilot. Projects of any size, however small or large, and at any stage of progress are welcome. The PCC invites interested institutions (both PCC and non-PCC) to participate by completing a short survey<https://forms.gle/5VEHS8sbQbG1JyQa9> describing their project and the issues of interest to them. Initial expressions of interest by the end of July will allow the Pilot to get underway with a kick off meeting in early August. We will solicit firm commitments for ongoing participation at a later date.
The pilot is anticipated to last about 12 months. If you have questions, please write to John Riemer<mailto:jriemer@library.ucla.edu> or Michelle Durocher<mailto:durocher@fas.harvard.edu>.
Hilary Thorsen, on behalf of the PCC Task Group on Identity Management in NACO
Hilary Thorsen
Resource Sharing Librarian
Stanford Libraries
thorsenh(a)stanford.edu
650-285-9429
Hi all,
The Wikipedia Library team at the Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to
announce new technical improvements to the Library Card platform and the
addition of 6 new publisher collections. If you’re an active editor who
would find free access to paywalled reliable sources useful for your
contributions, log in now to see what you can access:
https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/
More than half of the publishers available through the library can now be
accessed directly through the Library Card platform, rather than requiring
an individual account to be set up and maintained for each. Additionally,
the Library Bundle provides immediate access to 60% of our content with no
application required!
We’re also excited to announce that 6 new publishers have joined the
program, including ProQuest, Springer Nature, and the Central and Eastern
European Online Library.
You can read more about these changes in the blog post we just published:
https://space.wmflabs.org/2020/06/24/simplifying-your-research-needs-the-wi…
We hope you find these resources useful, and would love to hear your
feedback at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Library_Card_platform/Authentication-b…
Best,
Sam
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Sam Walton
Product Manager, The Wikipedia Library
Wikimedia Foundation
swalton(a)wikimedia.org