Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/Meeting Notes/2019-11-19

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  • Hilary’s experience at WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin
    • Theme was Wikidata and languages
    • Program notes, slides, videorecording, posters, etc. fully available, see links above
    • Overview of “birthday presents” since Wikidata birthday is end of October -- lots of new tools are debuted and other “gifts” to the Wikidata community in a celebration evening during the conference
    • For the first time this year, also an awards ceremony, much like Wikimania (also listed in full on a program page, with major winners on slide)
    • Session of note: Glimpse over Wikidata
      • The quality of Wikidata is improving, the Wiki ecosystem is growing in libraries, and many Wikipedia articles now use Wikidata
      • In the future, looking for better data accessibility and better corrections. Looking for improvements to Wikibase, like federation allowing SPARQL across Wikibase instances.
      • Want to work on non-English info, patrolling efforts with trainable automated tools like ORES, and faster query time avoiding timeouts
    • Session of note: Structuring GLAM-Wiki initiatives with Wikidata
      • Project based in Brazil
      • Meant to increase efficiency and effectiveness of processes and workflows in GLAM-Wiki initiatives
      • Cultural heritage in Brazil underrepresented and not given resources, so Wiki is stepping in to do a lot of the work of exposing this data
      • Dedicated Wikipedia GLAM project page, contains dashboard of general contents but also a running task list, etc.
      • Group hosts YouTube video workshops describing tools and techniques
      • Working with national datasets and also local government ones, particularly in projects such as revealing military dictatorship archives
    • Session of note: Wikibase meetup
      • (Many workshops and meetups over course of conference)
      • Project manager search ongoing
      • Telegram channel dedicated already, suggestion of starting video calls
    • Other sessions of interest noted in slide
  • Lena’s experience at WikidataCon
    • Wikidata Bridge
      • Wikimedia tool to edit Wikidata through Wikipedia
      • Point is to leverage the information that we’re feeding into Wikidata into various templates and platforms
      • Wikidata should never be where we’re directing people, but it should be a tool in the background (theme that came up often in conference)
    • Libraries panel
      • We can use Wikidata in our own library data
        • Helpful for exposing our information to a wider community not searching a library catalog
        • Wikidata can enrich the data we already have
      • Gustavo Candela evaluating the quality of linked open data in digital libraries
        • Published a book on Opening GLAM Labs
          • Labs are a good idea because libraries are at once very specific and general institutions--GLAM lab is a natural environment for places across campus to work together to benefit any kind of learner
      • Olaf Janssen created a map of public libraries across the Netherlands using Wikidata
        • Using Wikidata not as a destination but as a data source for creating a map product.
        • Encouraged public libraries to put photos of themselves.
      • Ursula Oberst--how can a small research library benefit from Wikidata
        • Web dossiers at Leiden and wanted to figure out how to use Wikidata with it
        • Made an interactive map to show different vocabularies and things they were tracking in lists
      • Adrian Pohl--North Rhine Westphalian Bibliography
        • Improve spatial subject indexing for a very regional vocabulary
        • Wikidata holds data kind of like authority file
        • Really effective SPARQL queries and Elastic search
      • LD4P2
        • Lena spoke about cartographic notebooks used in Wikidata to expose links between them in a way not possible in catalog
        • Challenge to capture hierarchical relationships that make sense to library community, but not to general community
  • Martin Poulter’s WikidataCon experience: WikiCite update
    • Wikidata is being filled with cataloging of scientific journal articles (might not be the long-term home of the information). Presently 26 million papers.
      • Wikidata could be/is used to aggregate citations used in Wikipedia
      • Could keep track of which papers are retracted or have errata attached
      • Could attach articles to better filled out author ids
      • Scholia is the best tool to browse these data.
    • There could be a Wikibase db for bibliographic citations; it’s not yet clear where to store the data. Wikicite isn’t a project yet, but in the long term, with some software development, it could be.
    • Liam Wyatt is the new Wikicite co-ordinator at the Wikimedia Foundation, has funding to support events that promote accessibility of citations outside the English-language scholarly publishing industry.
  • John Skiles Skinner experience at WikiConference North America
    • Attended at MIT
    • Theme = reliability/credibility
    • Where good and bad data come from, how to select it, when it’s misleading
    • Also had a birthday party for Wikidata
    • Attended a session about the basics of Wikidata and tools currently under development to make it as easy as possible, enjoyed editing for the first time and got lots of guidance on it
    • Symbiosis seen between Wikidata and library projects, several Digital Humanities projects using Wikidata
      • Rosie Stevenson Goodnight’s presentation on women authors through Women Writers in Review Project at Northeastern, reviews of their work analyzed
      • Amanda Rust, also at Northeastern, talked about reliable source discovery
        • Tendency to look at older, online and open access scholarship at the expense of newer scholarship
        • Newer scholarship also seen as less authoritative because it’s harder for people to look at and evaluate if it’s closed off
      • Of interest to Skinner since he works on reliable citations as well
    • Skinner gave a presentation too: about how library catalogs can use Wikidata, example of his work at Cornell
      • Discussed some of the hesitations that libraries have about showing information on an automatic basis that pulls from Wikidata due to accuracy and reliability concerns
      • How to encourage patrons and users of the library to contribute info back  to Wikidata to address concerns about reliability and accuracy
  • Alex Provo’s experience at WikiConference North America
    • Session on strategies for comparing library content and Wikipedia
      • Discussion of Google Sheets Wikidata tools (Chrome browser)
      • Can Wikipedia be used as biographical resource, etc.
    • Session on Wikiloop, a Google project
      • Tools to improve quality on Wikidata & Wikipedia, because Google uses these in knowledge cards. They have tools to e.g., fight vandalism
    • Session on adding descriptions to images with Wikidata
    • Whole experience made Alex think about feedback loops
  • Ryan Mendenhall’s experience at WikiConference North America
    • Session on structured data on Wikimedia Commons
      • Images: a grant-based structured data tool was built 3 years ago because the way you navigate, search, and browse images on Wikimedia commons is difficult to use
        • Multi-language captions are being built
        • Depicts statements tools are being added, including batch assignments of depicts statements
        • Structured data stored separately from Wikidata itself
  • Chat full of discussion about “Limits of Wikidata” session and how it was very technical
  • Dina Herbert experience at Wikiconference NA and update on SNAC
    • SNAC: social networks and archival context
    • Presented on it last year, gave an update this year called “Lettuce Into the Meal: A SNAC Update”
    • Encouraged by enthusiasm for archival context on the call
  • Closing reminder from Hilary to fill out the survey by Friday, and that the next call is December 3rd
    • Topic of next WAG call = gadgets
    • Send gadget suggestions to Hilary

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