Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/Meeting Notes/2020-06-02
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Call Agenda
[edit]- Date: 2020-06-02
- Topic: Wikidata Needs and Planning for the Future of the Group
- Speakers: Hilary Thorsen
Presentation Materials
[edit]Meeting Notes
[edit]- Goals for today
- Thanks to everyone who filled out our 3 minute survey. You can still fill it out!
- For group: mapping needs, revisiting priorities
- For participants:
- Flesh out and share questions important to own workflow as they intersect with Wikidata + adjacent Wikimedia projects
- Better understand strategic implications in the context of institutional/departmental priorities
- Articulate concrete needs and shared interests
- Good ideas for discussion
- All ideas are welcome, at any time. You can participate in discussion, and/or add your ideas to the notes.
- We’ll use the “raise your hand” feature! If you have responses or related questions, please raise your hand or type into chat. (You can un-raise your hand by clicking the icon again.)
- Note-taking: we can help each other consolidate notes and group similar ideas together
- Let us know if the facilitation is working for you. If there are any barriers to your participation, please flag this in chat or shoot Hilary/Alex a private message
- Let’s maximise participation! We invite you to proactively share the platform with other participants--especially if you're someone finds it easy to participate
- Discussion on current landscape of Wikidata needs (+ barriers!)
- Workflows: What are the how-tos that you’re trying to figure out?
- Documentation infrastructure: Where are we documenting these sharable insights/workflows?
- Concepts: What ideas or concepts would it help you to better understand?
- Community-building: What does a good local community look like? What “steps” have been helping you get there?
- Case studies: Are there any projects you are working on that you would be interested in sharing on a call?
- Adjacent projects: From a Wikidata perspective, what do you want to learn to do on Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects)?
- What other questions do you have?
- Revisiting topics
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/195qJKOSQOm_jf-P6YdLa1XeAB_t_lVOjcsQOn4ctOsM/edit?usp=sharing
- Notes
- Workflows: What are the how-tos that you’re trying to figure out?
- Data modelling; reconciling local data with WD entities
- Understanding + writing schema crosswalks
- Authority control
- Attribution
- Combining structured data on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
- Incorporating Wikidata into more general cataloguing workflow
- Incorporating Wikidata into MARC cataloguing workflows https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/pccidmgt/URIs+in+MARC+Pilot
- PCC Task Group on Identity Management planning upcoming Wikidata Pilot as part of Program for Cooperative Cataloging
- Documentation infrastructure: Where are we documenting these sharable insights/workflows?
- Practical Wikidata for Librarians-space to compile projects, tasks, documentation, ideas, queries, and other information relevant to librarians and GLAM folks starting to work with Wikidata
- Concepts: What ideas or concepts would it help you to better understand?
- Wikidata notability
- The "sex or gender" property (P21) does not work for non-gender binary people because it conflates sex and gender. Who in the community is working on fixing this?
- Community-building: What does a good local community look like? What “steps” have been helping you get there?
- IFLA Wikidata Working Group also has similar priorities: https://www.ifla.org/node/92837
- Reaching communities that aren’t immediate institution
- Getting connected to existing groups on Wikiprojects
- e.g. scanned Arabic books
- Getting connected to existing groups on Wikiprojects
- Blocking out time to share training and information with other institutions, importance of relationship building
- Biweekly Wiki lounge at NYU
- Low pressure opportunities for engagement
- York Libraries: reserve a time at monthly meetings
- Stanford Wikidata Project: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Stanford_Libraries
- Weekly working group
- Organizing with local libraries around academic institutions for curating local information?
- Institutions partner with other institutions as a way to help convince reluctant partners
- Creation of documentation for buy-in and overview of Wikidata
- Intro/outline document for increasing institution buy-in
- Are we familiar with any?
- There is a short 5 min video “An introduction to Wikidata”
- Collaborating on property proposals
- Case studies: Are there any projects you are working on that you would be interested in sharing on a call?
- Adjacent projects: From a Wikidata perspective, what do you want to learn to do on Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects)?
- What other questions do you have?
- Hilary - can you talk about whether the WikiCite project is under the scope of LD4 Wikidata? And if it is, might you want to invite Liam Wyatt for a future meeting? - Bob Kosovsky
- Revisiting topics
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/195qJKOSQOm_jf-P6YdLa1XeAB_t_lVOjcsQOn4ctOsM/edit?usp=sharing
- Action items:
- Concrete documentation of benefits that come from engaging in this community
- Collaboration on proposals
- What proposals?
- Workflows: What are the how-tos that you’re trying to figure out?