Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia/Program for Cooperative Cataloging May 2019

Intro to Wikidata
Program for Cooperative Cataloging
Event details
Date:Friday 3 May 2019
Time1-4pm
Where:Montpelier Room, 6th floor, James Madison Memorial Building
SlidesIntro to Wikidata
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The PCC (Program for Cooperative Cataloging) is hosting "Intro to Wikidata", a private event for librarians attending PCC Operations Meeting held in the Library of Congress. Wikipedia has been a highly popular source of information for a generation and continues to influence thought in all fields. Increasingly Wikipedia relies on Wikidata, a structured data collection which supports Wikipedia and also curates datasets for reference and general use. Please come prepared to learn about Wikidata by editing it directly on your laptop.


Agenda

0:00-0:05 - Welcome
0:05-0:15 - Introduction to Wikidata, overview of day's activites
0:15-0:20 - Questions, demos
0:20-0:50 - Let's edit!
0:50-1:05 - Wikidata data models - the instructions for editing items and performing queries
1:05-1:30 - (review properties, propose one? some suggestions)
1:30-1:45 - Showcase - participants show and tell what they edited and why
1:45-1:55 - Wikidata Query Service demonstration
1:55-2:30 - (editing items + queries + data models)
2:30-2:45 - Showcase - participants show and tell what they edited and why
2:45-3:00 - Goodbye and overview of possible next steps - Wikidata waits for your return

After the event please consider taking our Survey - Wikidata for Librarians.

Advance preparation

2019 FAQ for librarians to edit Wikidata
ARL White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations

To prepare for the event, please do and consider the following:

  1. Create a Wikimedia account now if you do not have one. Be ready to log in at the event!
  2. After you have a Wikimedia account, please register for this event so that the hosts can have a list of participants and report of what people edited.
  3. Please bring your computer
  4. Please have your computer charged.
  5. In the workshop you will create two Wikidata identities (either persons or corporate bodies) for faculty/academic staff members or organizations at your institution. Please be prepared to describe two identities, and for each one, bring identifying metadata for two supporting publications for each (think of these supporting publications as the “670” fields of a NACO record you would create for the identity). It does not matter if the entities you create in Wikidata are already represented in the LC/NACO Authority File. If there is a NACO record for the identity, you will link to it from the Wikidata description.
  6. Advance knowledge, reading, or study is not required. However, either before or after the event you may wish to consider these introductory materials:
    1. Wiki + data = Wikidata (and why you should care) (7 minute video)
    2. ARL White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations
    3. documentation presenting an Introduction to Wikidata
    4. Wikidata FAQ

Inspiration

SourceMD

SourceMD is the "source metadata" tool for copying citation information to Wikidata.

Data models

A "data model" is a recommendation for what properties to apply to Wikidata items. Event participants can engage in Wikidata without consulting the below. However, if anyone wants inspiration when editing Wikipedia items for people, publications, and institutions, check the below:

Here are some projects curating data models of interest to libraries:

Other projects which may be of interest but which do not currently recommend data models are

Instead of looking at published data models, anyone can examine data models in practice with a Wikidata query counting the properties used for a given subject.

(change Q7075 to any other identifier for another report)

Support

Organizations providing Wikipedia support for this community-based peer to peer presentation include the following:

All these organizations contributed in multiple ways, making this a true wiki collaboration. Reasons for thanks include -

Facilitators