Hi Megs, all
Just as a reminder we are having our global user group meetup April 21, 2021 at 12:00 p.m UTC. If someone representing this effort (maybe you?) wants to come and talk a little about this it would be great but we'll definitely bring it to everyone's attention as another opportunity!
Meeting details including connection link are here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_and_Libraries_User_Group/Worldwide...
Hope to see you all there!
On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 7:50 PM Megan Wacha megan@wikimedianyc.org wrote:
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@iflalists.org ifla-l-request@iflalists.org *On Behalf Of *Stacy Allison-Cassin *Sent:* Thursday, 8 April 2021 17:53 *To:* ifla-l@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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