Next meeting:
Wednesday, May 12, 9am PDT / 12pm EDT
Topic: Pilot Participant Lightning Rounds!
From Columbia University Libraries
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
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
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
Presenter: Alexandra Wong
Description: use of the “archives at” (P485) property for archival description
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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]
Slides (PowerPoint)
Meeting Chat
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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)
Meeting Chat
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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)
