Re: [libraries] [GLAM] Getting ready for #1lib1ref 2017

Hey Daniel, et al, I do think Wikidata is going to open up a lot of doors for us really, really soon: and we are starting to see a lot of early adopters do experiments with it in campaigns ( If you haven't yet, weigh in on the proposal at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Music_in_Canada_@_150:_A_Wik… ). I want to echo Peaceray's note about the complication of working in Wikidata for Archival/Library specialists around bibliographic data: - Part of the problem with metadata work on Wikidata, is that I don't think I have seen an optimal "Quick and simple introduction to Wikidata contribution for professionals" yet. I think the Wikidata Games make a big difference, but aren't fully their yet for bibliographic data (one or two more years of WikiCite work, and I think we will be there). Building out teaching modules, and the simple activities that would be appealing to different audiences would be awesome! - Also, unlike adding a reference to a source to a Wikipedia page (which is like answering a reference desk question), freely changing bibliographic metadata could really challenge the broader culture of libraries which tend to not favor rapid transformation of metadata. The libraries community uses citation/bibliographic for a variety of purposes, and there is a culture of applying different schemas for different local purposes, and then not being comfortable with changing someone else's record, because it might have unintended impact on those local purposes. Until we have really clear Wikimedia and external use cases for the data, and we have engaged more librarians in understanding if our current schemas/recommendations work well for many library purposes, I (personally) am not quite ready to ask thousands of librarians to add bibliographic metadata to Wikidata. I think it would invite a lot of confusion and/or force less-than thorough solutions to some of the questions being worked on by the WikiCite community (correct me if I am wrong librarians and WikiCite-rs on this thread). That being said, I would love to see some local experiments around Wikidata in the campaign: if you have ideas, and want to host either small events or try sharing an engagement activity as part of the social media push: do it! Whatever works well can be iterated more broadly into the campaign for 2018. We hope that #1lib1ref offers a platform for experimenting with library outreach, in any number of directions (like how Art+Feminism has opened up conversations with the arts community). The other opportunity, in my mind, is to do a seperate identifier and authority control campaign at some other point -- that relies heavily on Mix-n-match and the Distributed Game and could call on collaboration across all GLAMs. Building awareness that we are doing Authority Control Synchronization and how Wikidata adds value to using Authority controls, could open up a lot of conversations with these wider professional communities. Cheers, Alex Stinson P.S. Love the idea of an ALA gathering :) On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Raymond Leonard < raymond.f.leonard.jr(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- Alex Stinson GLAM-Wiki Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: http://glamwiki.org