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Rationale

Community discussion of Wikidata related topics with the goal of understanding how the library can contribute to and leverage Wikidata as a platform for publishing, linking, and enriching library linked data.

The group will meet biweekly to discuss various aspects of Wikidata in support of the partner and cohort institution projects involving Wikidata. At each meeting, Hilary (Wikimedian in Residence) the co-facilitators or a guest will present some relevant material related to the topic and we’ll discuss any issues members have encountered as well as helpful resources.

Anyone , including those not participating in LD4P2, is welcome to join the group.!

Approach

Chair: Co-Facilitators: Alex Jung, Sarah Kasten, Susan Radovsky, Hilary Thorsen, Eric Willey
Biweekly calls
Dedicated, open Slack channel in LD4 – #wikidata http://bit.ly/ld4slack
Dedicated, open Google group – ld4-wikidata
Public meeting notes in Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n
Meetings are recorded and links to the recordings can be found in the meeting notes

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Calls biweekly, Tuesdays, 9am PST PT / 12pm EST ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter); see below for dates
Join: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188For Zoom link to join call, see the agenda below:

• 2019-04-23 Agenda: Intro and Wikidata Projects 
• 2019-05-07 Agenda: More Wikidata Projects
• 2019-05-21 Agenda: Goals/Outcomes and WikiProjects
• 2019-06-04 Agenda: Wikidata at the LD4 Conference
• 2019-06-18 Agenda: Wikibase and the German National Library
• 2019-07-02 Agenda: Cohort Wikidata Project and Wikidata Policies
• 2019-07-16 Agenda: Steve Baskauf: Demo of Getting Data Into and Out of Wikidata
• 2019-07-30 Agenda: Wikidata/Wikimedia Communication Channels
• 2019-08-12 Agenda: Wikidata Notability Policy
• 2019-08-27 Agenda: Wikimania Recap
• 2019-09-10 Agenda: References in Wikidata
• 2019-09-24 Agenda: Wikidata/Wikibase Strategy and Vision
• 2019-10-08 Agenda: Finding GLAMs
• 2019-10-22 Agenda: Finding GLAMs: Reconciling and Adding Institutions to Wikidata using OpenRefine
• 2019-11-05 Agenda: Martin Poulter on the Using Wikidata to Describe the Structure of a Book
• 2019-11-19 Agenda: WikidataCon and WikiConference North America recaps
• 2019-12-03 Agenda: Gadgets
• 2019-12-17 Agenda: Survey results and revisiting goals of the group
• 2020-01-14 Agenda: Getting started in Wikidata, labels, aliases, description
• 2020-01-28 Agenda: Labels and aliases for organizations name changes, pseudonyms, conferences
• 2020-02-11 Agenda: Labels and aliases for organizations name changes, pseudonyms, conferences
• 2020-02-25 Agenda: Pseudonyms, historical places, organization splits
• 2020-03-10 Agenda: Pseudo-authors, ancient places and Google Sheets
• 2020-03-24 Agenda: Wikidata and Wikipedia Google Sheets Add-On and Wikidata WikiProject COVID 19
• 2020-04-07 Agenda: Google Sheets Add-On and Workflows, ORES, Author Disambiguator Tool
• 2020-04-21 Agenda: Wikidata Schemas and Cradle with ShEX
• 2020-05-05 Agenda: Alex Jung on Wikidata in Wikipedia Infoboxes
• 2020-05-19 Agenda: João Alexandre Peschanski on Wikidata + Education projects in Brazil "If Wikidata is the solution...what is the need?"
• 2020-06-02 Agenda: Wikidata Needs and Planning for the Future of the Group
• 2020-06-16 Agenda: The Program for Cooperative Cataloging Wikidata Pilot
• 2020-06-30 Agenda: Merrilee Proffitt, Chris Cyr, and Rob Fernandez: Surfacing Library Holdings in WorldCat to indicate possible notability of people
• 2020-07-14 Agenda: Introducing New Co-facilitators and Editathon Tools
• 2020-07-28 Agenda: Liam Wyatt on WikiCite
• 2020-08-11 Agenda: Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry on Scholia
• 2020-08-25 Agenda: Wikidata Gadgets and User Scripts Revisted
• 2020-09-08 Agenda: Rob Fernandez on Listeria
• 2020-09-22 Agenda: Wikidata Project Coordination
• 2020-10-06 Agenda: Entity Explosion
• 2020-10-20 Agenda: Wikidata Working Hour session on creating items for authors of papers on COVID-19 and brainstorming for future Working Hours
• 2020-11-03 Agenda: Author Items and the Author Disambiguator Tool
• 2020-11-17 Agenda: Dan Shick on Creating and Managing Community Documentation
• 2020-12-01 Agenda: Lightning Talks

Wikidata Working Hours

• Friday, January 24, 2020 at 12:00-2:00pm PST / 3:00-5:00pm EST / 20:00-22:00 UTC / 9:00-11:00pm CET in conjuction with American Library Association's Midwinter Conference
  
  • In person: Loews Hotel Philadelphia, Room PSFS, 1200 Market St, Philadelphia, PA
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188
  • Topic: Adding references for #1Lib1Ref Campaign
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/Wikidata_Working_Hours_at_ALA_Midwinter
• Monday, February 3, 2020 at 8am PST / 11am EST / 16:00 UTC / 5pm CET
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188
  • Topic: Adding references for #1Lib1Ref Campaign
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-02-03_Wikidata_Working_Hour
• Friday, February 21, 2020 at 11:30am PST / 2:30pm EST / 19:30 UTC / 8:30pm CET
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188
  • Topic: Adding and enhancing GLAM institutions for the Finding GLAMs Challenge
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-02-21_Wikidata_Working_Hour
• Monday, March 2, 2020 at 8am PST / 11am EST / 16:00 UTC / 5pm CET
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188
  • Topic: Adding and enhancing GLAM institutions
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-03-02_Wikidata_Working_Hour
• Friday, March 20, 2020 at 11:30am PDT / 2:30pm EDT / 18:30 UTC / 7:30pm CET
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188
  • Topic: Wikidata WikiProject COVID-19
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-03-20_Wikidata_Working_Hour
• Monday, March 30, 2020 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 15:00 UTC / 5pm CEST
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188
  • Topic: Wikidata WikiProject COVID-19
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-03-30
• Friday, April 17, 2020 at 11:30am PDT / 2:30pm EDT / 18:30 UTC / 8:30pm CEST
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188
  • Topic: Wikidata WikiProject COVID-19
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-04-17_Wikidata_Working_Hour
• Monday, April 27, 2020 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 15:00 UTC / 5pm CEST
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188
  • Topic: Wikidata WikiProject COVID-19
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-04-27_Wikidata_Working_Hour
• Friday, May 15, 2020 at 11:30am PDT / 2:30pm EDT / 18:30 UTC / 8:30pm CEST
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188
  • Topic: Wikidata WikiProject COVID-19 and References
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-05-15_Wikidata_Working_Hour
• Friday, May 29, 2020 at 11:30am PDT / 2:30pm EDT / 18:30 UTC / 8:30pm CEST
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188
  • Topic: Wikidata WikiProject COVID-19 and References
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-05-29_Wikidata_Working_Hour
• Friday, June 12, 2020 at 11:30am PDT / 2:30pm EDT / 18:30 UTC / 8:30pm CEST
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188
  • Topic: Art + Feminism + Activism
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-06-12_Wikidata_Working_Hour
• Monday, June 22, 2020 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 15:00 UTC / 5pm CEST
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188
  • Topic: Art + Feminism + Activism
    
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-06-22_Wikidata_Working_Hour
• Friday, July 10, 2020 at 11:30am PDT / 2:30pm EDT / 18:30 UTC / 8:30pm CEST
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/91072562402?pwd=ckRaQUpyZ1cxM2N2bEJ6TjJnamx1dz09
    Password: 698682
  • Topic: Art + Feminism + Activism
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-07-10_Wikidata_Working_Hour
• Monday, July 20, 2020 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 15:00 UTC / 5pm CEST
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/91739060000?pwd=Y1ZDNXZLa3FxWmdQTVFGWjE1OTZTQT09
  • Password: 727295
  • Topic: Art + Feminism + Activism
    
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-07-20
• Friday, August 7, 2020 at 11:30am PDT / 2:30pm EDT / 18:30 UTC / 8:30pm CEST
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/92959915297?pwd=RURMZG1xc2tZemQycWlHbHpVTytEZz09
  • Password: 772289
  • Topic: Wiki markup-based editing on Media-Wiki
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-08-07_Wikidata_Working_Hour
  • Recording: https://stanford.zoom.us/rec/share/z_0tLJL-rVNIaK_n1GzZZZwgL7bleaa8gycWqaFezEdBVlOyALWo8FN_zleZ1HLg?startTime=1596824237000
• Monday, August 17, 2020 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 15:00 UTC / 5pm CEST
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/96847622275?pwd=NUJ5RXczcWRxSktaWDZzZVNXbFVmUT09
  • Password: 282659
  • Topic: Wikidata infoboxes that can be used in Wikipedia
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-August-17_Wikidata_Working_Hour
• Friday, September 4, 2020 at 11:30 am PDT / 2:30 pm EDT / 18:30 UTC / 8:30 pm CEST
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/96731062738?pwd=bDRUemk4OGVwempIMmFFcG1GYndGdz09
  • Password: Password: 362109 
  • Topic: Gadgets and user scripts
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-September-4_Wikidata_Working_Hour
• Monday, September 14, 2020 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 15:00 UTC / 5pm CEST
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/96318784757?pwd=eGQ3ZWQ1RmhweW9nS0dtaU1oMGZwZz09
    Password: 793683
  • Topic: Listeria
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-09-14_Wikidata_Working_Hour
• Friday, October 2nd at 11:30 am PDT / 2:30 pm EDT / 18:30 UTC / 8:30 pm CEST
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/96834575868?pwd=YURqRmpicnNjVG5ZTDc4R0hFdUM3UT09
    
  • Password: 680128
  • Topic: Listeria and getting OCLC holdings using OpenRefine
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-October-02_Wikidata_Working_Hour
• Monday, October 12 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 15:00 UTC / 5pm CEST
  • Virtual: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/92827432271?pwd=QXgvV2dCcGltQlo2WjJzMTJtUnpPQT09
    
  • Password: 173219
    
  • Adding unique identifiers
    
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-October-12_Wikidata_Working_Hour
• Friday, October 30th at 11:30 am PDT / 2:30 pm EDT / 18:30 UTC / 7:30 pm CET
  • Zoom link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95937917586?pwd=VVZjQktxL1Nvc3JKaGpVQ2dBYms4Zz09
    Password: 390148
    Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-October-30_Wikidata_Working_Hour
  • Topic: Items related to podcasts on witches and witchcraft
• Monday, November 9) at 8am PST / 11am EST / 16:00 UTC / 5pm CET
  
  • Zoom link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/94872731871?pwd=eGlERHVxTHdKM2ZlUFIvMi9FWEdZZz09
    Password: 697172
    Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-November-9_Wikidata_Working_Hour
  • Topic: Author Disambiguator Tool
• Monday, December 7th at 8am PT / 11am ET / 16:00 UTC / 5pm CET
  • Zoom link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/98540507301?pwd=MlZ3Nkl0Y1ZDYTBaei8vR3NFd3ZwUT09
  • Password: 300167
  • Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/2020-December-7_Wikidata_Working_Hour
  • Topic: Document your Wikidata project

Goals and Outcomes

• Provide a welcoming, collaborative, and supportive space to discuss Wikidata related topics
• Gain a basic understanding of Wikidata in the context of the Wiki community and its norms
• Help other institutions begin to work in Wikidata by developing a Wiki* inventory of competencies and technologies necessary for those working with library and archival metadata to build a skill set that can be used in Wikidata and other linked data work
• Discuss and document what types of communication channels are available and what community support and open source tools are needed to implement integration of library and archival metadata with Wikidata at scale across a broad spectrum of libraries and archives
• Invite and encourage a variety of institutions and projects, including, public libraries, archives, and community projects, to participate in the group to ensure different perspectives are shared and needs identified
• Document and share work with the Wikidata community where it will be open to reuse and feedback
• Gain an understanding of processes to get data out of Wikidata via data dumps and APIs to reuse in library applications as well as the processes to donate data to contribute library and archival data back to Wikidata

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