Hi everyone,
During October, we are promoting the Image Description Month
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_Description_Month>. 🎉
On Friday, October 27, at 6:00 PM UTC, the Biodiversity Heritage Library is
teaming up with OpenRefine and the Culture and Heritage team to host a data
modeling workshop + demo using OpenRefine to clean and convert BHL's Flickr
data to linked open data.
In this event, participants from the OpenRefine Train-the-Trainer course
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Train-the-trainer_program_2023-24>
and
editors interested in biodiversity are invited to analyze, discuss, model,
and work on preparing the metadata of some Biodiversity Heritage Library
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library>
images
that were available on Flickr. The goal is to make these files ready to be
used during the TTT course in November, but also to learn more about
Structured Data on Commons.
Event details:
*Transforming Biodiversity Heritage Library Images - Data Modeling with
OpenRefine*
*Date/Time: *Friday, October 27 @ 2:00 PM EST | Find your time
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20231027T180000&p1=263>
*Event Page:*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_Description_Month
*Join Zoom Meeting:*
https://smithsonian.zoom.us/j/81157161366?pwd=QklxQW5KUUczZG16NnJNb1k3V1crd…
*AGENDA*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_Description_Month>
1. An open discussion around image data modeling and community standards
for Structured Data on Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data> (SDC).
2. Tangential Wikidata work that happens
alongside image description (e.g. approaches to linking publications in
Wikidata to the related images in Structured Data Commons)
3. A review of image schemas on the web and ongoing mapping work, and
4. Demos working with BHL Flickr data + OpenRefine
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Further reading:
- BHL Wikimedia projects white paper: *Unifying Biodiversity Knowledge
to Support Life on a Sustainable Planet* <https://bhl.pubpub.org/>.
- Commons:Biodiversity Heritage Library
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library>
- Commons:OpenRefine
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine>
- Commons:Structured data/Modeling
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Modeling>
- Commons:Flickypedia
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickypedia> (not involved
in this particular event, but connected to the topic!)
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Hoping to see you there!
All the best,
Giovanna, JJ, and Sandra
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer, Culture and Heritage
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>