Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/Meeting Notes/2020-01-14

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Call details[edit]

  • 2020-01-14
  • Topic: Getting started in Wikidata, labels, aliases, description
  • 9am PST / 12pm EST / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter)
  • Chair: Hilary Thorsen, Wikimedian in Residence, Linked Data for Production project


Presentation materials[edit]

Recording

Notes[edit]

  • Wikidata working hour Monday Feb 3 8am PST /11am EST
    • Send an email to Hilary if you want to be invited through the calendar invite
  • Funding for Wikicite initiatives
    • Promoting free and open access to citation info, structured data!!
    • Two ways to get $$
    • Conferences: deadline end of month
    • Smaller events: rolling grant
    • Happy to help promote Wikicite community events
    • Contact Merrilee or others on the WikiCite steering committee if questions, and for more info.
  • Wikimedia - DPLA Collaborations
    • Black Women and the Suffrage Movement first collection
  • LD4 Community Meeting
    • May 13-14, Texas A&M
    • Call for proposals is out now, see conf site

Let’s have a bunch of Wikidata content at the conference! If you have a project, have a group, propose a discussion session, speak up! Some scholarship funding available.

    • Hoping for participants from a broad range of institutions, not just academic. Public, archives, cultural heritage, community spaces…
    • Promoting practical, hands on ways to get involved with linked data in order to draw broad audience
  • User scripts
    • Mix n match gadget
      • To see possible matches
    • OpenStreetMap
      • Mw.loader.load
        • To see new item immediately if your search not found
  • Trying to compile resources/ training guides around wikidata. Add your favorites to agenda! Hilary will add to our wikidata project page
    • Slides of what Hilary has compiled so far:
    • Overview of wikidata in one page, how to get started, query service, etc.
    • Wikidata training site includes presentations folks have done. Exercises, how to plan a workshop…
    • Dan Scott page on creating/editing libraries in Wikidata
    • Lots of good stuff
  • Labels (for items)
    • Info Included in resource slides above
    • Most common name of an item, not unique

Combo of label and description allows you to differentiate the item

    • No wars, add an alias
    • Add differentiating info in the description (e.g. if adding “John Smith”)
    • General principles in slides (when to include date or namespace, capitalization)
    • How are name changes handled? Maybe add an alias? Hilary will find examples
      • Cliff: List old names as aliases
      • Lori: uses official property name and date
      • Example: Jekyll Island Museum
  • Pseudonym examples needed also
    • Guidelines for items without pages for finding/making common name
      • Every language has its own guidelines

Unresolved label issue for books (edition info in parentheses in label). This goes against general label guidelines. No community consensus.

  • What are we doing??
    • Arcadia: thinks edition info belongs in the description
    • Makes it a bit difficult for searching, have to go into each one to find right one


  • Aliases (also known as) (for items)
    • Help page with guidelines in slides
    • Searchable
    • No limit. Not required.
    • Other common names, alternative names, acronyms, abbreviations, transliterations, unicode-free versions if label contains Unicode. **Etc!!
    • NOT for alternative capitalization, spelling mistakes, alternate word order for people’s names
    • Follow namespace conventions
  • Description (for items)
    • See slides
    • Disambiguates items with same labels
    • A good example is Pride and Prejudice
    • Avoid info that will change, opinionated/biased/promotional
    • 2-12 words long, not full sentences, common formulas
  • Next time will some have examples of how organizations are dealt with, pseudonyms, maybe conferences.
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