That’s so interesting! Thanks for sharing joe... really curious how they are using Wikidata for this and where they want to go.
I wasn’t able to make it to the event the other Monday when Lane was in town ... I was bummed to have missed you Lane! ... but maybe we should sch a informal Cascadia meet up at Allegra soon? Would be interested to hear what people are thinking about..working on.
Also would like to invite the Jacob Lawrence team to join and librarians I’ve connected with in the area ...
And - also There’s an upcoming editing event at Jacob Lawrence gallery - join! Saturday May 12, 1-5p
https://www.facebook.com/events/1690413661048035??ti=ia
M
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On Apr 24, 2018, at 7:23 PM, Jonathan Morgan jonnymorgan.esq@gmail.com 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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