11:58:25 From Gina Solares to Everyone : Good morning from San Francisco -- I hope you're all staying warm and healthy wherever you are. 12:00:06 From David Erlandson to Everyone : Is there an agenda google doc somewhere? 12:01:27 From Chat Monitor to Everyone : No agenda doc, sorry! We use the Chat freely though for running commentary and also as a record later that is posted. 12:03:18 From Adam Schiff to Everyone : Steve Baskauf from Vanderbilt University will present and engage with us on the VanderBot project. Steve describes his topic this way: VanderBot is a loosely-defined set of Python scripts (1) designed to help humans be more efficient at acquiring, editing, and writing information to Wikidata. It is based on mapping spreadsheets to the Wikibase model using a schema based on a W3C standard for generating RDF data (2). It differs from QuickStatements (which can also be used to write spreadsheet data to Wikidata) in that the mapping schema makes it possible to download existing data into a spreadsheet as well as to generate RDF triples based on the spreadsheet that can be used to compare the local spreadsheet data to current data in Wikidata using a federated SPARQL query. Those queries make it possible to detect changes to the uploaded data -- both value added by community members and potential vandalism by bad actors. 1. http://vanderbi.lt/vanderbot 2. Details in our submitted paper 12:03:21 From Adam Schiff to Everyone : http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/managing-linked-open-data-wikidata-using-w3c-generating-rdf-tabular-data-web-recommendation 12:03:45 From Steve Baskauf to Everyone : Presentation slides are at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Program_for_Cooperative_Cataloging_Wikidata_Pilot_presentation_2021-02-18.pdf 12:11:04 From Jim Hahn to Everyone : I’ve been following the work on the blog and have really enjoyed the journey! 12:14:54 From Michelle M. Durocher to Everyone : great content for anyone presenting to your administrations about why this Pilot is worthwhile for you spending your time and efforts! 12:15:10 From Beth Camden to Everyone : +1 12:16:31 From P Dragon to Everyone : This group has had some issues with people questioning the notability of their entries. Is there anything to report on how that conversation is going? 12:16:32 From David Erlandson to Everyone : I like the comment of so much promise and little delivered via linked data. I think WD can help with this as well. 12:19:10 From Susan Hoover to Everyone : +1 for references 12:25:32 From Michelle M. Durocher to Everyone : Is there a kind of "bot gatekeeper" that approves or denies access to some automated processes? 12:29:53 From hilary thorsen to Everyone : This page has some info about the approval process: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bots 12:37:51 From Adam Schiff to Everyone : @P Dragon: all of the items of ours that have been proposed for deletion have been preserved, based on other people supporting keeping them on the Requests for Deletion page. 12:38:56 From Rhonda Super to Everyone : https://www.w3.org/TR/csv2rdf/ 12:39:57 From Adam Schiff to Everyone : If you don't have notifications turned on for changes to your items, then you won't be aware if someone proposes deleting them and they may disappear. 12:41:27 From Zoe Dobbs to Everyone : Do we have a pilot requests for deletion page similar to the property proposals page where people can add their support? 12:42:40 From Adam Schiff to Everyone : I've been posting to our listserv and asking people to go to the deletion request page to express support for retaining items. Time is of the essence when this happens. 12:43:27 From Jim Hahn to Everyone : I think this is broadly ETL ? 12:43:36 From Jim Hahn to Everyone : Extract, Transform, Load 12:43:50 From Jim Hahn to Everyone : Maybe transform/enrich, then load 12:45:31 From Alexandra Alisa Provo (she/her) to Everyone : To find/make a list of our more heterogenous data (for example, serials we’re working on at NYU) we’re using P5008 (the focus list property) 12:46:58 From Alexandra Alisa Provo (she/her) to Everyone : Maybe/could OpenRefine be used in the disambiguation step? 12:47:05 From Jim Hahn to Everyone : +1 12:47:17 From Jim Hahn to Everyone : Openrefine has some functionality for that which could be batched... 12:47:40 From Jim Hahn to Everyone : https://github.com/opencultureconsulting/openrefine-batch 12:47:50 From Jim Hahn to Everyone : https://github.com/opencultureconsulting/openrefine-batch/blob/master/openrefine-batch.sh 12:48:02 From Alexandra Alisa Provo (she/her) to Everyone : Oh cool, thanks, Jim! 12:48:09 From Jim Hahn to Everyone : https://pypi.org/project/openrefine-client/ 12:48:59 From Jim Hahn to Everyone : But Wikidata recon also provides a score! 12:49:11 From Jim Hahn to Everyone : So you can use scoring for good matches :) 12:50:38 From Alexandra Alisa Provo (she/her) to Everyone : @Jim Yes, but also depends on whether you restrict your reconciliation to certain types. My favorite mishap was when I was reconciling topics/subjects and ended up with symbolism the fungus instead of symbolism the art/literary movement 12:51:03 From Jim Hahn to Everyone : Good point! :) 12:52:28 From Michelle M. Durocher to hilary thorsen(Direct Message) : I'm beginning to think we won't have time to introduce the new Tab! Shall we discuss at next week's TG meeting and introduce at next meeting? 12:52:47 From hilary thorsen to Michelle M. Durocher(Direct Message) : Sure—that sounds good! 12:58:09 From Alexandra Alisa Provo (she/her) to Everyone : This has been fascinating and inspiring. Thank you, Steve! 12:58:37 From Anna L Neatrour to Everyone : Thanks for this presentation! 12:59:55 From Isabel Quintana to Everyone : Thanks very much. Very cool to see what you can do to minimize human intervention. 13:00:23 From David Erlandson to Everyone : The concept of deprecating statements has come up through this group as a way of ensuring old statements don’t come up over and over. Does Vanderbot have a way of looking at statement ranks? (Preferred/normal/deprecated?) 13:00:27 From Liz Hartman to Everyone : Amazing! Thank you for sharing! 13:01:30 From Dean Seeman to Everyone : Great presentation - thanks Steve! 13:01:42 From Joy Panigabutra-Roberts to Everyone : Thank you! I need to leave for another meeting. 13:02:14 From David Erlandson to Everyone : Thanks! 13:02:37 From hilary thorsen to Everyone : Thank you Steve that was fantastic as always! 13:02:53 From Nicole Lewis to Everyone : Thank you! 13:02:59 From Crystal (she/her) to Everyone : Thank you Steve! 13:03:07 From Eva Bolkovac to Everyone : thank you! 13:03:08 From Hanna Takemoto to Everyone : Thank you!