Hello everyone,

Our next biweekly LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call is Tuesday, July 30th at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. We'll be discussing communication in the Wikidata and Wikimedia communities. Esther Jackson, Public Services Librarian at New York Botanical Garden's LuEsther T. Mertz Library, Martin Poulter, Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Oxford based at the Bodleian Libraries and Merrilee Proffitt, Co-Chair of the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group and Senior Manager of the OCLC Research Library Partnership at OCLC will be joining us for the discussion. If you already have some questions in mind, please add them to this documenthttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1452248mFrFe6krzydGpe55L2LR6xbjg9GIiinahCv4c/edit?usp=sharing.

If you haven't joined one of our calls before, the LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the Linked Data for Production projecthttps://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=104568167. One of the goals of the project is understanding how libraries can contribute to and better integrate library metadata with Wikidata to improve access to library resources on the web. Wikidata offers exciting possibilities for libraries to become a part of the linked data landscape, share and reuse data, and discover new relationships and connections. The Affinity Group meetings provide an informal space to share information and learn more about Wikidata.

The call details are below. To receive notification about upcoming meetings and meeting notes you can subscribe to the ld4-wikidata Google Grouphttps://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata, and if you aren't able to attend, the meetings are recorded and meeting notes available on https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n Google Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n.

Please note, our following call in August will differ from our usual schedule and be held on Monday, August 12 at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. We'll be discussing Wikidata's notability policy on this call.

Call Details: Time zone converterhttps://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20190730T160000&p1=tz_pdt&p2=tz_edt&p3=1440&p4=tz_cest https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188%E2%80%A8https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C8AzcrX0Jps6010d7FjUAqRY0aLdww885tZQsi_b...

Communication: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata

#wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: http://bit.ly/joinld4slack

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/LD4P2/LD4-Wikidata+Affinity+Group

Cheers,

Hilary

Hilary Thorsen Wikimedian in Residence Linked Data for Production Project Digital Library Systems and Services Stanford Libraries Stanford, CA 94305 thorsenh@stanford.edu 650-285-9429