In Belgium a project is going on to import data from institutions to Wikidata. More information will follow.
Romaine 2014-12-17 11:29 GMT+01:00 Jesse de Vos <[email protected]>: > Thanks, great suggestions and thoughts! > > At Sound and Vision we are considering using Wikidata/contributing to > Wikidata from our datasets. It is still quite early days for us though. > > Wikimedia Netherlands has done a workshop 'Wikidata for GLAMs' in > November, which was well attended. The slides can be found here > <http://www.slideshare.net/terburg/20141114-wikidata-glamworkshop2>. > > I am the chair, together with Liam Wyatt, of the Europeana Taskforce > "Wikimedia developments" > <http://pro.europeana.eu/network/task-forces/overview#Wikimedia-Developments>. > The purpose of the taskforce is to provide Europeana with strategic > recommendations for their 2015-2020 strategic plans. We are still working > on the final version of the recommendations, but it definitely has some > suggestions for Europeana to engage with Wikidata. Hopefully, Europeana > (and other umbrella organizations) can play a role in making working with > Wikidata more accessible to GLAMs. > > So nothing substantial for the moment, but we're making progress. Would > love to hear from other GLAMs who have experiences with Wikidata! > > Best, > Jesse > > 2014-12-17 11:08 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni <[email protected]>: >> >> Hi Bob, >> As you are a librarian let me tell you what we do as Wikimedia Italia. >> In the last two years, we have been growing strong relationships with >> libraries and librarians. >> We have developed a collaboration with the National Library of Florence, >> and last year we created a property in Wikidata that >> linked the terms of the Italian Thesaurus with Wikipedia articles (via >> Wikidata). >> That was really cool for them, as they we're seeking a way to crosswalk >> the thesaurus with other thesauri: >> as Wikidata has become a super-authority control (it has many properties >> that are identifiers for persons), it can be also a super-thesaurus, as a >> hub for national ones. >> >> Moreover, we are experimenting with a local Wikibase, populating it with >> bibliographic metadata [1]: >> it is a complex project, as we need to find a model for describing >> resources and books at different levels (at least "work" - "edition"). >> We started it because in the past we had a very good feedback from the >> EAGLE project [2], >> a joint European project in which Wikimedia Italia is subcontractor. >> They are developing a new standardised database for epigraphic >> metadatahere (there have been several database scattered across >> universitiies, and also several metadata standards): we suggested the >> creation of a Wikibase, for that, and after several months we can say the >> project is a success and the epigraphic community was stunned with the >> flexibility and power of Wikibase. Eventually, some of these data will >> populate Wikidata. >> >> We also did recently a conference at the National Library of Florence in >> which we explained Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikidata, the projects we >> think suits the most for libraries. ou can have a look at the November GLAM >> report (and previous ones too)[3]. >> Of course, there is a growing interest about Wikidata, and we hope many >> librarians will start contributing. >> >> I just see one, big, limit in all this: >> for being *truly* effective, a librarian should know his way around >> Wikidata: how to propose properties, chow to discuss with other users, how >> to run a bot (or how to bribe a guy with a bot). Wikidata is a brand new >> project with a brand new community, it is not "defined" at all and it is >> inherently complex. For example, I was one of the proponents of the >> WikiProjects Books [4], but this stuff is difficult and in the end I quit >> (did not have time to folow properly). At the same time, you'd need >> professional librarians (and good ones) to find a way to create the right >> properties, decide which and how many items create for each book, and >> balance all this with the fact that you need to serve Wikimedia projects >> (so you need a Wikidata items to be connected to Wikipedia, Wikisource, >> Wikiquote, Commons, etc.). >> >> Hope this helps :-) >> Aubrey >> >> [1] http://kant.bncf.net/wikibib/index.php/Pagina_principale >> [2] http://www.eagle-network.eu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page >> [3] >> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/November_2014/Contents/Italy_report >> [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Books >> >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Daniel Mietchen < >> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> we are working on a research proposal about integrating Wikidata with >>> research workflows: >>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research >>> . >>> This already includes two GLAMs, and we are in discussions with a >>> third one to join in. >>> In any case, we are taking a lot of inspiration from GLAM-wiki >>> collaborations, and comments/ edits from this community would be most >>> welcome! >>> >>> Thanks and cheers, >>> >>> Daniel >>> >>> -- >>> >>> http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/institution/mitarbeiter/mietchen-daniel/ >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Publications >>> http://okfn.org >>> http://wikimedia.org >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Barbara Fischer >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Hi Bob, >>> > >>> > in Germany we have only started to invite GLAM institutions to join the >>> > Wikidata community. Yet as far as I know, no institution has committed >>> > themselves to collaborate on a regular scale. But the interest is high >>> as we >>> > can see when offering information on Wikidata on conferences. See this >>> > enthusiastic tweet a week ago. >>> > >>> > best regards >>> > >>> > Barbara Fischer >>> > Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften >>> > Jeweils persönlich von Montag bis Donnerstag für Sie erreichbar >>> > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin >>> > Tel. (030) 219 158 26-(0)44 >>> > >>> > http://wikimedia.de >>> > >>> > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. >>> > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg >>> unter >>> > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für >>> > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. >>> > >>> > 2014-12-16 13:58 GMT+01:00 Bob Kosovsky <[email protected]>: >>> >> >>> >> Hi folks, >>> >> >>> >> This past Sunday WikimediaNYC had the opportunity of training on >>> Wikidata, >>> >> courtesy of user emw. His slide presentation is here: >>> >> >>> >> http://www.slideshare.net/_emw/up-and-running-with-wikidata >>> >> >>> >> His nutshell summary: Wikidata is a way to bring structured data to >>> >> Wikimedia projects. >>> >> >>> >> Although I knew a little about Wikidata already, his presentation and >>> >> personal revelation ("I almost never edit Wikipedia now; all my >>> editing is >>> >> on Wikidata") convinced me that I have to be more active on Wikidata >>> (at >>> >> least now I know how to begin being more active). >>> >> >>> >> So I'm wondering whether there are any GLAM projects that regularly >>> >> undertake Wikidata editing/integration as part of their activities. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Other suggested activities from WM/NYC meeting are listed here: >>> >> >>> >> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC#Activities_for_the_Wikidata-thon >>> >> >>> >> If you've never done any Wikidata, I highly recommend the Wikidata >>> Game: >>> >> >>> >> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/ >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts, >>> >> Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts >>> >> blog: http://www.nypl.org/blog/author/44 Twitter: @kos2 >>> >> Listowner: OPERA-L ; SMT-TALK ; SMT-ANNOUNCE ; SoundForge-users >>> >> - My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my institutions - >>> >> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> GLAM mailing list >>> >> [email protected] >>> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam >>> >> >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > GLAM mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam >>> > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> GLAM mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> GLAM mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam >> >> > > -- > > Met vriendelijke groet, > > *Jesse de Vos* > GLAM-wiki coördinator > > *T* 035 - 677 39 37 > *Aanwezig:* ma, di, do > > <http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/> > > *Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid* > > *Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum > | * > *beeldengeluid.nl* <http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/> > > _______________________________________________ > GLAM mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam > >
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