Colleagues, if you are a librarian who is interested in how bibliographic data can make a difference in Wikimedia projects I urge you to consider applying to attend this conference.

Best,

Merrilee

Merrilee Proffitt

Senior Manager, OCLC Research Library Partnership

From: Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 11:26 PM To: wikicite-discuss wikicite-discuss@wikimedia.org; Discussion list for the Wikidata project. wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org; Open Access discussions openaccess@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikipedia Library wikipedialibrary@wikimedia.org Subject: [External] [wikicite] WikiCite 2018 applications (including travel funding requests) are now open

We're thrilled to announce that applications to attend WikiCite 2018 are now openhttps://goo.gl/forms/hV6rXRCdQ3fAK9v13.

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WikiCite 2018https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018 is a 3-day conference, summit, and hack day dedicated to the vision of creating an open repository of bibliographic data to support the citation and fact-checking needs of Wikimedia projects, and possibly, to serve as an open infrastructure for research, education, and information quality across the web.

WikiCite 2018 expands efforts started with WikiCite 2016https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016 and WikiCite 2017https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2017 to explore these possibilities by leveraging Wikidata—Wikimedia’s structured knowledge base—and to develop open source tools to improve citation management and verifiability strategies for free knowledge. Since then, the amount of bibliographic data in Wikidata has grown exponentially, allowing us to glimpse the possibilities of a truly open, universal library and citation graph, while also exposing significant social and technical challenges.

This year presents a pivotal moment for WikiCite, wherein its emergent community — consisting of Wikimedians, librarians, LODLAM practitioners, software engineers, data scientists, and open knowledge advocates — must grapple with possible growth scenarios, address critical gaps, and set a course for the project’s futurehttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiCite/Roadmap. If you are passionate about tending Wikipedia’s root system (references!), or believe in the broader possibilities of contributing to the bibliographic commons, WikiCite 2018 presents an unprecedented opportunity to meet fellow dreamers and hackers, and to help shape this vital effort.

This year’s event will be hosted at the David Brower Centerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brower_Center in Berkeley, California, USA, November 27-29, 2018. Applications to attend the event (including travel support requestshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018/Travel_funding) are open until September 17, 2018:

WikiCite 2018 application formhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfZdLgVZYUQfj99SSeUsj-uwe3BdHgjRQA_-i0Hbjss_51MA/viewform

We hope you will join us!

–The WikiCite 2018 organizing committeehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018#Organizing_committee

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