Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Wikidata Clinic 2017
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Wikidata Clinic
Join Wikipedia experts Andrew Lih and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight for a clinic on how to work with Wikidata, the structured data project that is an adjunct to Wikipedia. Attendees from the LAM sector (libraries, archives and museums) are encouraged to bring their own interesting problems and data sets from their organizations or domains of interest for expert advice on how to:
- work more closely with Wikidata
- incorporate Wikidata into their workflow
- integrate Wikidata with their data and other linked open data (LODLAM) collections
When
- Friday, December 1, 2017 - 1:30 to 5:00 pm
Where
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- 8th & G Streets NW, Washington, DC MacMillan Education Center (1st floor, near the Experience America gallery)
RSVP
- Requested, though not mandatory - ANDREW.LIH@wikimediadc.org
Background[edit]
The session will start with a brief overview of how Wikidata ontologies are being used, and how to inspect them with tools such as Wikidata Graph Builder, Wikidata Generic Tree, Wikidata Query (SPARQL), Vizquery (simple visual query) and SQID.
The majority of time is dedicated to hearing from attendees with their specific questions or lines of inquiry for their domains of knowledge.
- Are you interested in diving into how Wikidata covers your topical area?
- Do you want to find out how to contribute your knowledge to Wikidata?
- Do you want to learn how to perform Wikidata queries and display the results in rich media formats, such as maps, timelines or bubble charts?
Wikimedia DC has already held two well-received sessions of Wikidata training with staff from the Smithsonian Institution.
This third session, open to all cultural institutions interested in Wikidata, is meant to be a hands-on clinic to show existing projects (such as Women in Red or Sum of All Paintings) utilize Wikidata to improve content. This will be anchored by Wikipedia veterans Andrew Lih and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight.
Facilitators[edit]
- Andrew Lih is the author of The Wikipedia Revolution and the 2016 National Archives and Records Administration Citizen Archivist of the Year. He was an associate professor of journalism and communication for more than a decade, and is active with the Wikimedia DC chapter, Wikiconference North America and Wikidata. He is an administrator on English Wikipedia.
- Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight is the 2016 Wikipedian of the Year, a visiting scholar at Northeastern University and coordinator of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red. She is an administrator on English Wikipedia.
Materials[edit]
Signup[edit]
You can email ANDREW.LIH@wikimediadc.org or sign below
Examples and Work Lists[edit]
Examples of using Wikidata to generate worklists or to model
- Women in Red indexes - worklists and missing articles, generated from Listeria bot
- Sum of All Paintings - evaluations and worklists generated from Wikidata bots
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Firearms - examples of using Listeria/Template:Wikidata_list
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