Hello, all.

Next week the IFLA Wikidata Working Group will have an open,kick-off meeting to move the group into the next stage of development. The group is dedicated to working with the international library community to advance and support the implementation of Wikibase in libraries, as well as support work with Wikidata.

Meeting date and time: Thursday, Oct. 8th, at 16:00-17:30 CEST.

Read the current information about the group: https://www.ifla.org/node/92837

Register for the meeting (required to obtain the meeting link): https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5882341/IFLA-s-Wikidata-Working-Group-launch

Check out our recently released videos as part of a Wikicite project, including an introduction to Wikidata and Wikibase from Barbara Fischer and Sara Hartmann. Subtitles for French, Spanish, and Portegeuse, with Arabic and Chinese on the way shortly: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV81siTMahbsjakNDIdFwbIvdyNqwRNPo

Happy to respond to questions.

Stacy

Stacy Allison-Cassin

Associate Librarian

York University (Canada)