Wikidata and Wikibase - Leveraging linked data for Teaching, Research and Collections, #IWD2025 and more - Wikidata

26 Feb 2025


      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
Book here to attend for 3-5pm Wed 5th Marchhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikidata-and-wikibase-curriculum-transformation-in-the-digital-humanities-tickets-1247440079859
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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 https://witches.is.ed.ac.uk/ Map of Accused Witches in Scotlandhttps://witches.is.ed.ac.uk/ 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 Reformationhttps://maps.mappingthescottishreformation.org/ 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 Wikibasehttps://snarc-llgc.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page https://snarc-llgc.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page 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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4pm: 'Wikimedia in Education: Booklet of Case Studies (version 2.0)'https://open.ed.ac.uk/wikimedia-in-education-2nd-edition-2/ - Satu Kapiainen (University of Edinburgh) will showcase the new edition of our booklet of 21 case studies of how Wikimedia is being used as a form of learning technology in UK education.
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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Read about Wikipedia and Artificial Intelligence.https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/wikipedia-and-artificial-intelligence/ Wikipedia is now 24 years old so how does it respond to the brave new world of AI?
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Learn how to edit Wikipedia in our monthly hybrid workshop this Friday 28 Februaryhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagine-a-gender-equal-world-help-write-women-onto-wikipedia-tickets-1215380197889 from 1pm-2pm and then
Write and PUBLISH a new Wikipedia page of 50-100+ words from 2.30-5pm.
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Not everything is online. Far From it. So a little #KnowledgeActivism appearing in Google's top results is really impactful. Our International Women's Day event will feature a Wikipedia editing event on 1-5pm 7 March 2025https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagine-a-gender-equal-world-help-write-women-onto-wikipedia-for-iwd-tickets-1261534667149 to add more brilliant lives & contributions of women online.
Hope you can join us at one of these or all events! All welcome.
Best wishes,
Ewan McAndrew SFHEA
Wikimedian in Residence
Website for the residencyhttps://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia and Map of Accused Witches sitehttp://witches.is.ed.ac.uk/
Email: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.ukmailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk  Blog: WiR bloghttps://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/
Tel: 07867 593450    Subscribe to the Scotwiki mailing listhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctpnDjO_PHZeOTrA0yjtVLqE4oDfjLtYhWzQVTwk712BSJJQ/viewform
My working hours are 9:30am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday.
Book chapter on Gender Equality work: Changing the Way Stories Are Toldhttps://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11778416.ch13.en
Wikipedia Project Page: Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburghhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh
Media Hopper channel: Videos and video tutorialshttps://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Wikimedian%2Bin%2BResidence%2BChannel/51020161
YouTube: Wikimedian in Residence channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDRSVKM4ceUSPI-7-BFeoQ?view_as=subscriber
Wikimedia in Education: New booklet of UK Case Studieshttps://open.ed.ac.uk/wikimedia-in-education/
Join Wikimedia in Scotlandhttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikimedia_in_Scotland events and UoE eventshttps://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?eventssearch=wikipedia&event=search&eventStart=0&eventProviderId=&cw_inChannelLink=1&cw_passThrough=marked.
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