Welcome, Greg!
Joe: just to close the loop, yep I agree this is important. I can't help
out on this project right now, but if you are able to organize a
collaboration I may be able to help out at a later date.
Jonathan
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Greg Bem <gregbem(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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(a)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(a)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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