Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/Meeting Notes/2020-06-02

Call Agenda

• Date: 2020-06-02
• Topic: Wikidata Needs and Planning for the Future of the Group
• Speakers: Hilary Thorsen

Presentation Materials

• Call Agenda

Meeting Notes

• Goals for today
  • Thanks to everyone who filled out our 3 minute survey. You can still fill it out!
  • For group: mapping needs, revisiting priorities
  • For participants:
    • Flesh out and share questions important to own workflow as they intersect with Wikidata + adjacent Wikimedia projects
    • Better understand strategic implications in the context of institutional/departmental priorities
    • Articulate concrete needs and shared interests
• Good ideas for discussion
  • All ideas are welcome, at any time. You can participate in discussion, and/or add your ideas to the notes.
  • We’ll use the “raise your hand” feature! If you have responses or related questions, please raise your hand or type into chat. (You can un-raise your hand by clicking the icon again.)
  • Note-taking: we can help each other consolidate notes and group similar ideas together
  • Let us know if the facilitation is working for you. If there are any barriers to your participation, please flag this in chat or shoot Hilary/Alex a private message
  • Let’s maximise participation! We invite you to proactively share the platform with other participants--especially if you're someone finds it easy to participate
• Discussion on current landscape of Wikidata needs (+ barriers!)
  • Workflows: What are the how-tos that you’re trying to figure out?
  • Documentation infrastructure: Where are we documenting these sharable insights/workflows?
  • Concepts: What ideas or concepts would it help you to better understand?
  • Community-building: What does a good local community look like? What “steps” have been helping you get there?
  • Case studies: Are there any projects you are working on that you would be interested in sharing on a call?
  • Adjacent projects: From a Wikidata perspective, what do you want to learn to do on Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects)?
  • What other questions do you have?
  • Revisiting topics
    • https://docs.google.com/document/d/195qJKOSQOm_jf-P6YdLa1XeAB_t_lVOjcsQOn4ctOsM/edit?usp=sharing
• Notes
  • Workflows: What are the how-tos that you’re trying to figure out?
    • Data modelling; reconciling local data with WD entities
    • Understanding + writing schema crosswalks
    • Authority control
    • Attribution
    • Combining structured data on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
    • Incorporating Wikidata into more general cataloguing workflow
      • Incorporating Wikidata into MARC cataloguing workflows https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/pccidmgt/URIs+in+MARC+Pilot
      • PCC Task Group on Identity Management planning upcoming Wikidata Pilot as part of Program for Cooperative Cataloging
  • Documentation infrastructure: Where are we documenting these sharable insights/workflows?
    • Practical Wikidata for Librarians-space to compile projects, tasks, documentation, ideas, queries, and other information relevant to librarians and GLAM folks starting to work with Wikidata
  • Concepts: What ideas or concepts would it help you to better understand?
    • Wikidata notability
    • The "sex or gender" property (P21) does not work for non-gender binary people because it conflates sex and gender. Who in the community is working on fixing this?
  • Community-building: What does a good local community look like? What “steps” have been helping you get there?
    • IFLA Wikidata Working Group also has similar priorities: https://www.ifla.org/node/92837
    • Reaching communities that aren’t immediate institution
      • Getting connected to existing groups on Wikiprojects
        • e.g. scanned Arabic books
    • Blocking out time to share training and information with other institutions, importance of relationship building
    • Biweekly Wiki lounge at NYU
      • Low pressure opportunities for engagement
    • York Libraries: reserve a time at monthly meetings
    • Stanford Wikidata Project: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Stanford_Libraries
      • Weekly working group
    • Organizing with local libraries around academic institutions for curating local information?
    • Institutions partner with other institutions as a way to help convince reluctant partners
    • Creation of documentation for buy-in and overview of Wikidata
    • Intro/outline document for increasing institution buy-in
      • Are we familiar with any?
      • There is a short 5 min video “An introduction to Wikidata”
    • Collaborating on property proposals
  • Case studies: Are there any projects you are working on that you would be interested in sharing on a call?
  • Adjacent projects: From a Wikidata perspective, what do you want to learn to do on Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects)?
  • What other questions do you have?
    • Hilary - can you talk about whether the WikiCite project is under the scope of LD4 Wikidata? And if it is, might you want to invite Liam Wyatt for a future meeting? - Bob Kosovsky
  • Revisiting topics
    • https://docs.google.com/document/d/195qJKOSQOm_jf-P6YdLa1XeAB_t_lVOjcsQOn4ctOsM/edit?usp=sharing
  • Action items:
    • Concrete documentation of benefits that come from engaging in this community
    • Collaboration on proposals
      • What proposals?