Dear all,
Apologies for any cross-posting but please disseminate this upcoming event to interested staff & students and members of the public in your networks.
On Wed 5th March we will be joined by Jason Evans from the National Library of Wales and showcasing how linked open data can support teaching, research and collections with 4 free talks!
Join us for an afternoon of talks exploring Open Knowledge and Open Data in the curriculum, Scottish history and historical data (accused witches and religious change in early modern Scotland) and opening up the collections of the National Library of Wales!
Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities
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3.10pm: Wikidata in the Curriculum (Ewan McAndrew, University of Edinburgh)
will preface our two guest speakers with a general introduction to student work with Wikidata assignments including the
Map
of Accused Witches in Scotland project and Tower Block Archive.
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3:25pm:
'Mapping Religious Change in Early Modern Scotland' (Dr. Chris Langley, The Open University and
Mapping the Scottish Reformation project) will introduce the ways in which Wikibase Cloud can be used to structure historical data. In particular, the talk will explore how to use Wikibase and LeafletJS alongside textual sources relating to seventeenth-century
Scotland and its General Assemblies.
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3:35pm: 'Wikibase for Name Authority at the National Library of Wales' - Jason Evans (National Library of Wales)
on the modest goal of creating a knowledge graph of all Welsh cultural heritage data. Learn how
NLW's Wikibase is
helping them take their first steps. The talk will highlight the benefits of using Wikibase alongside Wikidata to build a linked network of entities across multiple collections.
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Join us for tea and coffee and talks from 3pm-5pm in Room 2.55 in the Edinburgh Futures Institute, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh.
The talks will commence at 3.10pm and conclude at 4.10pm with Q&A and informal discussion thereafter.
International Women's Day, Wikipedia editing workshops and Wikipedia and AI
For your diary (and for information):
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Write and PUBLISH a new Wikipedia page
of 50-100+ words from 2.30-5pm.
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Hope you can join us at one of these or all events! All welcome.
Best wishes,
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