Hey all--academic librarian previously in open data in Cambodia, and new to this group. Really appreciate the shout-out about the Jacob Lawrence event. I will try to make that.
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Joe Mabel jmabel@speakeasy.net wrote:
Felix already has Seko (and others) from Whose Knowledge on board. They've discussed in the abstract what metadata is needed, but I don't get the impression that the actual data modeling skills are there yet. Also, from what Seko said during the conference, she's also still struggling with how to get this stuff into Wikipedia in a way that will stick. She talked about re-traumatization (maybe too strong a word, but hers) when Dalits wrote articles and had them subsequently deleted.
These groups are way ahead of us in terms of engaging with indigenous and ethnic populations, but I think we'd be ahead on data modeling almost from the get-go.
There's a lot to talk about here, right now I'm more interested in who might be on board to work on this than trying to run it all through in emails, which often can be rather ephemeral. I hope that's OK.
JM
On 4/25/2018 4:23 AM, Jonathan Morgan wrote:
Might be a project that Whose Knowledge https://whoseknowledge.org/ (started by a couple of WMF ex-pats) is interested in supporting? They don't have a lot of technical resources of their own, but are probably connected with the right networks.
- J
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Joe Mabel jmabel@speakeasy.net wrote:
I talked this evening with Felix Nartey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Felix_Nartey) from Ghana and it looks like their group are pretty far along in arranging to do some orally-based work with people from indigenous cultures there. However, the want to use Wikidata to track their content, and on data modeling they are very much just beginners. I told them that I suspect I am not the only Cascadia Wikimedian who would be interested in helping them work out a schema to model the data, since several of us have relevant skills. This might eventually also be of benefit to us locally as well, for cultural stuff with ethic groups and tribes/nations in our geographic area. Not sure all of what this will ultimately entail from us, but Felix seems rock-solid, so we'd have a strong collaborator on the other end: I'm pretty sure they can sort out most of what data they'd want to track, and we'd just have to devise a schema.
Are there others in Cascadia besides just me who'd be interested in taking this on? Anyone know someone not yet a Wikimedian (or not all that active) who might find this interesting?
JM
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