Last Meeting of the Pilot!
Wednesday, December 8, 9am PST / 12pm EST
This final meeting of the PCC Wikidata Pilot will be devoted to discussion of next steps beyond the Pilot. The meeting will be interactive with Zoom Polls and open dialog. The PCC Identity Management Task Group, the PCC group that has been sponsoring the Wikidata Pilot, will be addressing the PCC Policy Committee at its January meeting to seek their approval for the next steps that are desired by the Pilot community.
Please attend to have your voice heard!
Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_tepjGQH3N2T8BKG0zzcnoKEDRBrpwcL/view?usp=sharing [57:53]
**The PCC Wikidata Pilot Learning Objectives are a key resource to consult in conjunction with viewing/listening to the recording, as the screen image isn't very clear in the recording.
Meeting Chat
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Wednesday, October 13, 9am PDT / 12pm EDT
There were two components of the agenda for October's Pilot meeting:
- First up, Hilary Thorsen shared themes and take-aways from the recent Pilot survey -- (Slides)
The Response Rate was impressively high, so thank you to those who generously submitted your ideas. The survey results will be used by the Identity Management Task Group as it presents to the PCC Policy Committee at its annual meeting in early November. We will be working with PCC leadership to advocate for the structure and supports that would be most useful to you in your ongoing Wikidata work.
- Secondly, we had two Lightning Round Talks from Pilot participants
From Wheaton College (Illinois) -- (Slides)
Presenter: Christa Strickler, Associate Professor of Library Science (christa.strickler@wheaton.edu)
Description: One of Wheaton's pilot projects involves creating and enhancing items related to Christian hymns, using one hymnal as the basis for a test data set for the substantial collection of hymnals in our special collections. Work has included modeling data for hymn texts, tunes, composers, and hymn writers; using Open Refine to reconcile data from Hymnary.org with Wikidata; and creating/enhancing Wikidata items that link to Hymnary and Library of Congress identifiers. Some data modeling difficulties have yet to be worked out.
From UCLA Library -- (Slides)
Presenters: Paromita Biswas, Continuing Resources Metadata Librarian (pbiswas@library.ucla.edu) and Erica Zhang, Metadata Librarian for Open Access (ezhang20@library.ucla.edu)
Description: This presentation will be a brief overview of the pilot at the UCLA Library. In particular, it will highlight the pilot's role in providing collaborative opportunities with units outside of cataloging, our work with underrepresented entities in Wikidata, and how challenges in working with Wikidata can also contribute to the pilot's success.
Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FbKYj2oyfocszrIclcp1NYazur6-eSXA/view?usp=sharing [57:04]
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Wednesday, September 15, 9am PDT / 12pm EDT
The PCC Wikidata Pilot Project Team at University of Washington Libraries set a goal to create Wikidata items for all of their open-access institutional electronic theses and dissertations. While items for thesis authors, faculty, departments, and subjects have largely been created and edited by hand, the UW team is using a semi-automated workflow harnessing OpenRefine's schema extension to create batches of Wikidata items based on MARC21 metadata already in their catalog.
Crystal Clements of the University of Washington Libraries will demonstrate the workflow in detail, share useful tools and reusable code, and provide guidance for adapting the workflow for use with any MARC21-to-Wikidata project.
Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NRGBhAmAHLYD3fuRoquMj3PT_3r3hpQ1/view?usp=sharing [59:56]
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Wednesday, June 9, 9am PDT / 12pm EDT
Two colleagues from Wikimedia Deutschland, Lydia Pintscher and Amy Chandra, talked about two new data quality tools that they have developed and how they use ORES quality scores and constraint violations to measure data quality:
They also briefly introduced a new system they have just begun designing to find mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases.
Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uHh-qthamzLZ53AMyDTSWT-6yLIxn86f/view?usp=sharing [54:54]
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Wednesday, May 12, 9am PDT / 12pm EDT
Topic: Pilot Participant Lightning Rounds!
Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tFyiDW2qCpiachEP2WUGLypqp7vjjMfD/view?usp=sharing [58:41]
Intro and Welcome (0:00 - 2:34)
Mollie Echeverría and Alex Whelan, Columbia University Libraries (2:35 - 11:28)
Chris Long, University of Colorado, Boulder (11:29 - 19:47)
Q&A (19:48 - 26:42)
Violet Fox, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (26:43 - 36:19)
Alexandra Wong, University of Toronto Libraries (36:20 - 47:37)
Q&A (47:38 - 58:41)
Meeting Chat
From Columbia University Libraries (slides)
Presenters: Mollie Echeverría, Metadata Operations Specialist (mae2163@columbia.edu) and Alex Whelan, Time Based Media Metadata Librarian (aw3195@columbia.edu)
Description: Our talk focuses on how we've been exploring incorporating Wikidata into Columbia's NACO/SACO cataloging workflows. We will discuss how we've been using Wikidata to create name authority records for uncontrolled access points for entities from oral history interviews held by Columbia's Oral History Archive. We will also touch on our mapping of Wikidata properties for living persons to MARC 21 authority elements, our experimentation with Listeria lists and the P5008 "on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008)" property, and on our efforts to augment Wikidata entities for Black-owned newspapers and collate research for creating controlled title access points.
From University of Colorado Boulder (slides)
Presenter: Chris Long, Director, Resource Description Services Team, University Libraries
Description: CU Boulder's PCC Wikidata Pilot project involves women poets from the Romantic Period that are included in two digital collections: CU Boulder’s Women Poets of the Romantic Period and Santa Clara’s Stainforth Library of Women's Writing. Unfortunately, many of the poets in these collections are relatively unknown. In this project, our NACO, ISNI, and Wikidata skills have converged to provide stronger bibliographic identities and a more robust Web presence for these women poets.
From University of Nevada Las Vegas (slides)
Presenter: Violet Fox, UNLV Digital Collections Wikimedian in Residence
Description: The UNLV PCC Wikidata Pilot began in June 2020 and has included multiple production sprints, including the creation of items relating to Nevada mining history, digitized historic newspapers, and the African American history of Las Vegas’s Westside neighborhood. In this talk, titled "Creating Wikidata items in record time: a beginner's guide to QuickStatements and Cradle," Violet will discuss two tools used to create and edit Wikidata items. The presenter will discuss potential use cases for these tools and share tutorials developed for those unfamiliar with command line editing.
From University of Toronto Libraries (slides / PDF)
Presenter: Alexandra Wong
Description: One of the on-going projects at the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) revolves around adding "archives at" statements (P485) into Wikidata from UTL's online archival description and discovery platform. Since 2019, U of T archivists, volunteers, and digital initiatives staff have added over 900 "archives at" statements, creating several hundred new Wikidata items along the way. Initially an exploratory project to better understand the possibilities of Wikidata, this work has led to concrete workflows and greater collaboration across the entire library system to create linked open data from U of T archival descriptions. It has had the unexpected benefit of bringing together staff with varying expertise and domain knowledge. This lightning talk is a summary of the project, previously presented at the April 20th 2021 LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call, with new insights into how external communities such as the PCC Wikidata Pilot have helped move this initiative forward.
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Thursday, April 15, 9am PDT / 12pm EDT
Topic: Wikidata property proposals
Presenter: Our presenter this month will be Adam Schiff, Principal Cataloger at the University of Washington. Adam has had nearly 50 new property proposals approved to date (see list at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_PCC_Wikidata_Pilot/University_of_Washington/Properties_Created), all based on requests from UW pilot project participants and for his own Wikidata work.
Description: In the course of describing an entity in Wikidata, you may have come across information that would be suitable for a new property which you would like to use in a new item. Proposals can be made for identifiers and other types of properties.
Adam will walk us through the steps involved in creating a property proposal and the process used in Wikidata to discuss and approve them. Adam will demonstrate making a proposal for a new identifier property and answer questions based on his experiences.
Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PKLP3_NiSt9j7-9tDML9Z9N1hlzuKn2_/view?usp=sharing [1:02:03]
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Thursday, March18, 9am PDT / 12pm EDT:
Title: Wikidata and the Penn Deep Backfile
Description: Penn’s PCC Wikidata project provides support for one of their ongoing initiatives: the Deep Backfile copyright clearance project (for background see: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/copyright-free-penn-libraries-deep-backfile-periodicals). This presentation will address the project background, the challenges of serials in Wikidata, and their current explorations into batch processing.
Penn’s PCC project page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_PCC_Wikidata_Pilot/University_of_Pennsylvania_Library
Presenters:
John Mark Ockerbloom, Digital Library Strategist & Metadata Architect
Beth Picknally Camden, Goldstein Director of Information Processing
Jim Hahn, Head of Metadata Research
Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16svbObXaPXElNtmnFC9tvT1FXNL8zkvI/view?usp=sharing [59:47]
Slides (PowerPoint)
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Thursday, February 18, 9am PST / 12pm EST / 6pm CEST:
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.
Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aB2XuQ_gqdB99tKcxEMoU7j75-x-i6RP/view?usp=sharing [1:01:33]
Meeting Chat
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Thursday, January 21, 9am PST / 12pm EST / 6pm CEST:
Welcome & Announcements
1. Understanding deprecation in Wikidata through example (Paul Frank & Matt Miller) – (beginning at timestamp 5:35)
- When an identifier in a Wikidata item is determined to be incorrect, what should you do? Delete the identifier? Deprecate the identifier? Nothing? This short presentation, based on a real life example, will look at the options, and suggest a best practice for dealing with misattribution in Wikidata items
2. Representing inverse relationships in Wikidata (Hilary Thorsen) – (beginning at timestamp 17:30)
- relateditems gadget
- Documentation on gadgets useful for librarians
3. Representing organizational name changes in Wikidata (Lori Robare) – (beginning at timestamp 34:30)
Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k1n9_nx0n4ANWL8gke17aDU2HiAXwOdy/view?usp=sharing [58:42]
Meeting Chat
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Wednesday, December 9, 9am PST / 12pm EST / 6pm CEST:
December's meeting will be a U.S. national libraries project showcase:
Our presenters will be Paul Frank from the Library of Congress and Liz Plantz of the National Library of Medicine. Paul describes their presentations in this way:
"Everyone has heard of the “NACO-lite” concept but who has actually seen it in practice? The Library of Congress and the National Library of Medicine are participating in the PCC Wikidata Pilot with similar yet diverse projects. At the Library of Congress, pilot participants are experimenting with the NACO-lite concept by creating Wikidata items for entities that are not already represented in the LC/NACO Authority File, then creating a NACO-lite record with a link to the Wikidata item to serve as the spoke pointing to the Wikidata hub. At the National Library of Medicine, pilot participants are working with descriptions of persons and corporate bodies associated with the NLM Postcards of Nursing Collection, working with NACO records that already exist but can be enhanced through Wikidata links. These two pilot projects, similar yet distinct, at the national library level, can pave the way for all NACO members to participate in the change from authority control to identity management."
Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UJbjakNE0v0MR0r9pufkpZD44ntluzv3/view?usp=sharing [57:49]
Meeting Chat
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Tuesday, November 10, 9am PST / 12pm EST / 6pm CEST:
- Welcome & Zoom poll on how participants are doing with their projects so far (0:00-5:34)
- Lucas Mak on mapping MARC21 Authorities to Wikidata (work being undertaken in the PCC Standing Committee on Applications) (5:35-27:00)
- Matt Miller on his work related to Wikidata and id.loc.gov (27:01-54:30)
Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_KFQOBVuKSqAFvArK6AYc75fNB5rdNcu/view?usp=sharing [56:38]
Meeting Chat
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Wednesday, October 28, 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 6pm CEST:
- Wikidata Program and Events Dashboard: tracking project work within the PCC Wikidata Pilot at both the Pilot level and institution level
- Hilary Thorsen to discuss options and demo -– slides
- Discussion re: questions that have come up recently on the Pilot listserv about using on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008) to track edits
- Will Kent from Wiki Education will share his perspectives and help us discuss the topic
- Pilot participants share their activity and/or data tracking approaches
Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18for9g_7L_uz9fPyhutTwBOK5F4S_l0m/view?usp=sharing [53:39]
Meeting Chat
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Wednesday, September 30, 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 6pm CEST:
- Welcome & brief updates (0:00-7:00)
- Creating WikiProject pages and User pages – Hilary Thorsen (7:00-33:20)
- Wikidata Policies for true beginners & how to find them – Lori Robare (33:20-48:50) – slides
- Reviewing the “Institutional Interests” spreadsheet and finding common interests across the Pilot
- Please add your entry if you have not yet done so! (See Hilary’s Pilot list email on 9/14)
Agenda item deferred in the interest of time to a follow-up email that will go out on the PCC Wikidata List
5. Open Discussion / Q&A / Upcoming content for future meetings (48:50-1:00:50)
