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
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Behalf Of *Stacy Allison-Cassin
*Sent:* Thursday, 8 April 2021 17:53
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*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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