Hello, all. Next week the IFLA Wikidata Working Group will have an open,kick-off meeting to move the group into the next stage of development. The group is dedicated to working with the international library community to advance and support the implementation of Wikibase in libraries, as well as support work with Wikidata.
Meeting date and time: Thursday, Oct. 8th, at 16:00-17:30 CEST.
Read the current information about the group: https://www.ifla.org/node/92837
Register for the meeting (required to obtain the meeting link): https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5882341/IFLA-s-Wikidata-Working-Group-launch
Check out our recently released videos as part of a Wikicite project, including an introduction to Wikidata and Wikibase from Barbara Fischer and Sara Hartmann. Subtitles for French, Spanish, and Portegeuse, with Arabic and Chinese on the way shortly: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV81siTMahbsjakNDIdFwbIvdyNqwRNPo
Happy to respond to questions. Stacy
Stacy Allison-Cassin Associate Librarian York University (Canada)