Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/Meeting Notes/2023-02-07

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  • What is your Wikidata passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project, or just what you like to edit when you have time. We'd love to have an open mic session, completely informal. Please add yourselves here if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so and share your screen, with no need for formal slides.  This is a community session where we welcome all to participate! Plug and Play!
    • Hilary Thorsen (WikiProjects)
    • Christa Strickler (Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice)
      • Filling gap in religious and theological studies
      • Scholarly communication in religion and theology
      • Purpose to build skills and share knowledge
      • Working on getting the community of practice going again after one meeting last year
      • Journal of Religion in Africa–first project to create items for journal articles
      • Will be building skills and using batch processing tools
      • Google Group
      • Slack
      • Project page
      • Other project on hymns using hymnals
      • Silvia: Synergies might be possible with Wikiproject Religion and Traditional African Religions Portal
      • Steve: Vanderbilt Divinity School - close to having all publications in Wikidata using output from their Zotero database.
    • Joe Cera (Convincing librarians that they should be engaging Wikidata)
      • Trying to get librarians engaged and new people participating from law libraries
      • Finding ways to make transition easier for people, so that they feel like linked data is approachable
      • Built an alternative chat server
      • Bob: like the ethos that surrounds the Wikipedia community – helping breaking down borders like
      • Silvia: project of interest: WikiProject_Brazilian_Laws
    • Sasha Frizzell (Married & maiden names!)
      • Working with auction catalogs and came across names married/maiden names and was having hard time with Library of Congress Name Authorities
      • Wikidata was helpful because had aliases and dates she was married
      • Using Wikidata as supplement to LCNAF  
      • Karly: I unfortunately need to leave but excited to see this topic highlighted! in a previous position at the Frick Art Reference Library, I was attempting to use Wikidata and Mix'n'Match to identify women who were named only by their husband's name in our sitters file
      • Yale had a (non-Wikidata) project in their ArchivesSpace to update names of women identified by their husband’s name
    • Darnelle Melvin (Special Collections & LGBTQ+ Las Vegas Community)
      • Started during the PCC Wikidata Pilot
      • https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_PCC_Wikidata_Pilot/UNLV
      • Focusing on LGBTQ community in Las Vegas by doing research in archival collections which haven’t yet been digitized
      • Wikidata gives researchers another access point to the collections
      • Will focus on visualizing on maps, timelines, graphs
      • First focus was on businesses
      • Have Wikimedian working on this and will have 2 additional ones starting in July
      • Working on LGBTQ Movers and Shakers
      • Wikiproject popularity has meant that digitization of collection has been prioritized
        • Digital object will be linked from Wikidata item
      • Learned so much about city as a result of the project
      • Would love to coordinate a regional/national project
    • Silvia Gutiérrez (Learning what the community needs to support your work better!)
      • Senior program officer for Libraries at Wikimedia Foundation
      • Toolhub: https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/
        • Space to gather tools that already exist
      • Wikipedia y bibliotecas (space to gather manuals + tutorials - only in Spanish): https://wikibibliotecas.colmex.mx/
      • Project on modelling WikiProjects (to be started - only if the community is interested!)
      • Contact Silvia at silviaegt[at]wikimedia.org
    • Bob Kosovsky (NYPL)
      • helped people at Morgan Library get into Wikidata and learned from Rob Hudson at Carnegie Hall
      • Lowering boundaries that institutions erect–our obligation to totally destroy that
      • Focus is the project–not what you represent
    • Darnelle would love to see more of people’s SPARQL queries even an impromptu share your SPARQL queries
    • Ideas for future SPARQL sessions
      • Rob Fernandez and Darnelle suggested for their SPARQL query knowledge!
      • Formulate queries as a group from basic starting point of what we want but don’t know how to formulate
    • Future sessions on Wikimedia Commons, Working Hour on WikiProject page creation, communication spaces
    • Steve–intersection Wikidata, Commons, and IIIF
      • experimenting with Google AI to add depicts statements
    • Communication spaces documentation: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/Practical_Wikidata_for_Librarians/Communication
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