Presented on Wikidata to Auckland Museum staff at a Wiki workshop Friday 23rd March 2018
Presented at SPNHC + TDWG conference 2018 on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
Assisted with the 4 Wellington #EditforEquity edit-a-thons held in October 2018. I helped tutor attendees, contributed to spreadsheet of articles for addition or improvement in Wikipedia, added images to WikiCommons, created articles and interlinked content via Wikidata.
Attending as many New Zealand Wikimedian at Large Wellington based events as I can to support organisers and new editors. (June 2018 - June 2019)
Advanced Digitizations of Biodiversity Collections Summit 2019. 1 - 3 October 2019. My presentation: "Why Natural History collections should engage with Wikipedia, WikiCommons and Wikidata".
Biodiversity Next 2019. Symposium: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics? 22 October 2019. My presentation: Wikimedia Projects and Citizen Science.
WikidataCon 2019. 25 - 26 October 2019. My presentation: #HerNaturalHistory
Dowse Art + Feminism Editathon. 16 November 2019. See this as a great resource. - unfortunately a family emergency meant that I was unable to attend.
National Digital Forum 2019 - unfortunately a family emergency meant that I was unable to attend. However my resources and presentations were able to be used by User:Giantflightlessbirds to ensure this content was delivered.
Pre-conference workshop. 18 November 2019. Wikidata for GLAMs: an introduction..
Conference presentation. 19 - 20 November 2019. Giz it: A journey in reuse.
2019 ASBS–NZPCN Joint Conference. 24 November 2019. Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Australasian endangered plant species. - Also unable to attend due to my family emergency.
2020 VALA Conference. 12 February 2020. Plenary presentation - Collections, catalogues and connections: My engagement escapade.
Australasian Open Access Strategy Group Open Access Week. October 2020. Biodiversity and linked Open Access data.
The "Who" in Collections: Revealing the Network of Collectors and Determiners of Bat Specimens. 1 December 2020. Wikidata presentation and notes.
1Lib1Ref presentation to Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa staff. 21 May 2021
Providing support for the joint outreach campaign by Aotearoa New Zealand Wikimedia user group and Wikimedia Australia for #1Lib1Ref. 15 May - 5 June. Dashboard results for the event can be seen here.
Presented at Auckland WikiCon 17-18 July 2021 on Editing through the Lens of Auckland Museum Content. See my presentation
Presented at the WikiMania 2021 on the State of GLAM Wiki in New Zealand.
Participated in the BiCIKL-Hackathon 2021 giving Wikidata support to those contributing to Project 9 - Hidden Women. See Wikipedia Weekly Biodiversity #6 for a summary of results from the project.
Interviewed for the World of Wikipedia podcast - series 2 episode 10.
21 October 2021 Presented on Wikidata to Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC), a sub-committee of the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH), at their annual meeting.
16 March 2022 Presenting on Wikidata to the staff and volunteers of the National Herbarium of Victoria, Australia.
29 March - 1 April 2022. Participating in and sharing Wikidata expertise in a "Using Wikidata to Capture and Share Information about People in Paleontology" workshop.
7 April 2022 presentation to DigiKult 2022 conference.
8 April 2022 blog post on my WeDigBio workflow including using Wikidata to link collectors.
May 2022 - The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD), the world’s largest repository of DNA barcode data located Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) openly licensed 85% of its specimen image database CC BY at least partially as a result of a tweet of mine.
8 September 2022 co-presented at the Institutional Repository Day 2022 on the progress of the New Zealand Thesis Project. The slides for this presentation can be found here.
