Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/Meeting Notes/2023-01-24

Call Agenda

• Date: 20201-24
• Topic: Community Updates and Discussion
• Speaker: Wikidata Affinity Group facilitators

Presentation Materials

• Call agenda

Meeting Notes

• Announcements (Sarah)
• Wikidata Affinity Group Facilitator roles (Sarah)
• Wikibase Working Hour Update & Call for Conveners (Ryan)
  • Ryan and Christine looking for additional people to help. Lots of opportunities to get involved.
• Wikidata Working Hour Updates (Hilary)
  • Last year did first working hour series focusing on children’s books by diverse creators.
  • Potential spring series: We Here's publication Up//root  has citation guides of LIS articles/outputs by diverse creators
  • If there’s interest, would be fun to create/enhance those journal articles in Wikidata, and working on authors, as well as incorporating Author Disambiguator, Scholia, etc.
  • If anyone is interested in participating or volunteering, please reach out.
• Call for group call topics:  Are there projects, tools, papers, etc. that you would be interested to learn more about?  What would you like group call programming to cover?  (Susan)
  • As well as looking for call facilitators, also interested in seeking different call topics.
  • Possible topics (Sarah will also open a thread on Slack channel):
    • Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice
    • Advocacy: convincing the library/archival community there’s value in embracing Wikidata
    • Sound recordings on Wikidata proved very time-consuming (Each track needed its own item–separate item for each movement of a classical work and for performances of each movement!). MARC record was easier!
    • Works vs. editions of scores (modeling for music)
    • Works vs. editions vs. performances
    • to WEMI or not to WEMI - how to start building a data model in wikidata from scratch
    • Perhaps Wikibase group could make a presentation every few months to enhance communication.
• LD4 Steering Committee 2023-2025 Goals  (Susan & Eric)
  • Three Themes:
    • Training & Professional Education
    • Common frameworks & systems to share information
    • Increase discoverability and interoperability of library materials on the open web
• Advocacy Survey and future discussion (Sarah)
  • A recent Group Call raised the question of how we advocate for Wikidata work in our organizations.  
  • In order to facilitate a discussion, we’ve created a brief survey to gather some of your thoughts.  https://forms.gle/HLPvSTbaVF7LDbTQ6
  • The survey will be open until February 13, 2023
  • If you would be interested in sharing your experience in a future group call, please add your name and email address to the final question of the survey -- we will be in touch to coordinate a date with those who have expressed interest.