Meeting Minutes-1 June 2017

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Brian McKenzie (BM)

Joseph Quinn (JQ)

User Group

• WLM Contractor

• We are happy to welcome Pawel Marynowski as our WLM contractor. He has a strong background in Wikidata and WLM. EE and SE met with him to discuss the parameters of the position and what we would like to accomplish. The monument spreadsheets were sent. RO and SE will meet with him next week to map out a schedule.

• Project Coordinator Update (RO)

• Humanities event-spoke to someone from Creative Commons Poland about a way to map WLM data. May be useful for the contest.

• Attending a Conference in RIA to talk to contacts about collaboration.

• Completed and sent out the June Newsletter.

• Started making plans for the new website-what to include, ect.

• Started a list of changes/improvements to Vicipéid we can sugeest.

• Met another contact at Maynooth University who is using Wikipedia in the classroom and is given a talk about Wikipedia in the classroom.

Workshops

• 24 May-Trinity College Dublin-Terry Pratchet Workshop-RO and Dan Garry attended. About 13 participants-mostly librarians from the college. Edits were made on Wikipedia and Wikidata. RO will touch base with the participants and also teachers interested in incorporating Wikipedia into their plans for the new academic year.

• Upcoming Workshops

• August-UCC event.

• Possible Future Events

• Vicipéid Workshop-Galway-SF waiting to hear back on details.

• July/August-DRI training/workshop

• National Library workshop/training

• September-Wikidata workshop UCC

Conferences

• 21 June-DBpedia Annual Meeting-Galway-SF has been asked to give the keynote address at this event. She has accepted. She will speak about the User Group.

• 5-6 July-Edinburgh, Scotland-Celtic Knot Conference-RO to attend.

• 23-25 August-Open Sym Conference-Galway-attendance is open to the group. Contact SE if interested.

Misc

• JQ has a contact with the Somme Association who is interested in collaboration. He will keep the group up to date.

• RO was contacted by a PhD student in UCC using Wikidata. He is looking for real work events to attend. Led to possible Wikidata event in Cork.