User:Clements.UWLib/sandbox

Overview of Cohort Institution Projects

University of Minnesota (Christine DeZelar-Tiedman)

No formalized plans, will use some of the batch loading tools to contribute wikidata based on their University researchers. Their platform (Pure) does a batch export, so they’ll find ways to load to Wikidata.
Both researchers and archive related info, papers, etc.

Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas (Paloma Graciani Picardo)

No formal plans quite yet
Local authorities. Correspondence in their archives, they keep indexes. Some might comply with authority schema on Wikidata.
Want to learn about Wikibase as possible platform for authority data

Northwestern University (Paul Burley)

Going to work on metadata for posters from their collection of African Studies. In African languages--Hausa. LCNAF won’t work. They’ll need to create URIs in Wikidata.
YES, would be interested in using QA to look up entities they’ve created (via Sinopia)

University of Pennsylvania (John Mark Ockerbloom)

John not on call, maybe next call

Harvard Music Projects (Christina Linklater & Christine Fernsebner Eslao)

Slides
Guido Adler Collection

   * Materials on musicology, initiated musicology study at University of Vienna (advised first Jewish PhD in musicology, first PhD in musicology obtained by a woman)

Harvard purchased because annotated--interest and engagement with musicologists of his day First critical biography of Beethoven--annotated heavily by Adler--foundational text in the field Show connection between musicologists driven into exile Digitizing pamphlets, hope to make a product for musicologists, whom did Adler know, where did his contemporaries go after the war Pretty fully described in MARC records, but could better see the connections by creating Wikidata. Enhance descriptions Names do have LC NAF Arthur Freedman Collection More wikidata focused project. These are well described in finding aids. 1,000 recordings of punk shows: audio and video. Digitizing. Driven to document shows he really loved Metadata--cassette liners, but sometimes not information about the venue Interest in recordings that have been digitized Number of bands are well represented in Wikidata In process of reconciling Most venues aren’t described, but a few are Found Wiki project music--info boxes for Wikipedia For venues and musical performances--cast a wider net for places and events A number of places don’t exist anymore--reflect different eras of Boston cultural life Musical performances Performances of ballets, operas, hip hop concerts, etc Only 1 similar event to one recorded in concert One question: what data is appropriate for Wikidata, what would be better elsewhere Trying to find matches in Wikidata for bands using OpenRefine Q: Have you found any names you need in MusicBrainz A: Tends to be quite exhaustive--used by fans and record dealers. Many items in Wikidata are barebones, so matches against MusicBrainz is helpful. Hoping to use as outreach to music community--MusicBrainz tend to note things like location and dates active. Barebones local authorities--would like to avoid in Wikidata--don’t want to create item that no one can disambiguate Q: am curious about how to add all these resources into a realistic virtual earth for libraries. Am thinking Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow with languages +. For ex., add video of the Rathskeller in in the 1970s or 1980s and now, or add punk rock video from the 1970s differentially from the 1980s … for archival research … and then patch them together bibliographically and archivally … in a new conceiving of libraries and wikidata How best to do this? A: Would like to be in touch--browsing data in Wikidata--timelines and maps, time slider, visual cues about chronology--potential for mapping time periods and neighborhoods cool Q: Is anyone incorporating DISCOG identifiers as they’re creating wikidata entries? A: it’s not linked data, but there is an api. We’re finding it useful Q: Work on venues is open ended? A: We have venues where recordings were made. How far down rabbit hole to go? Steven:Cornell had hip hop flyers that described venues and went with schema.org a few years back--could look at how schema.org does it Christine: Other digitized collections--complementary collections that we could link to through Wikidata Q: How best to connect them library-wise and newly for interactivity … so that people in video could become avatar bots … and then we could eventually converse with these new syntheses, libraries-wise. Thanks. A: Coolness…. Naun: It might be interesting to see how this might work for other kinds of performances, not necessarily music performances OpenRefine--Honor’s talk on Saturday We will devote one of these calls to OpenRefine, hopefully get developer to join us Trying to convert marc authority files into wikidata entities

Is there interest in standing up wikibase instance for local authorities?? Christine has made instances in AWS, would love for someone with some experience to chime in Jens, Wikimedia -- Germany Working on integrated authority file Can check with contacts there, and present on this in future call They are evaluating Wikibase for authority file, making a decision about one/several Wikibase installations Interest Add your name here!: Paloma, HRC Tim Knight: Wikibase is something a few colleagues and I are just starting to explore; nothing groundbreaking to report at this stage Rhonda Super: Interested in learning about Wikibase We at SI are at the planning stage on creating wiki entity for SI scientists who are not on NACO. We are also exploring if creating VIAF directly is an option?!  At Vanderbilt we have been playing with Wikibase, but have run into technical difficulties: Quickstatements don’t work and also we have encountered bot throttling issues that make them unusable. So technical advice would be great. Harvard: I believe Quickstatements doesn’t work for the Docker image, for anyone Jens: Yes, it is hard to get QuickStatements to work with the Docker image, but there is a solution. Merrilee Profit:   I would suggest that Wikibase be part of these discussions, not separate. Wikidata / Wikibase are quite intertwingled.... Steve Baskauf, Vanderbilt University Libraries. We have experimented using Pywikibot to load data, but the built-in throttling makes it way too slow. Interested in either a way to reduce the throttling or an alternative (preferably Python) to Pywikibot. Jackie Shieh (SIL) Mairelys Lemus-Rojas (IUPUI) Ahava Cohen (National LIbrary of Israel) Ryan Mendenhall, Columbia University Kristina Spurgin (UNC Chapel Hill) - we are exploring a state-wide name authority project with several other institutions. We are assessing needs and determining next steps for the project, but could be interested in WikiBase as a platform for building a shared North Carolina names authority file.

Introduction to Wikidata WikiProjects (Hilary Thorsen) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects Helpful entry point to finding out how entries are described in Wikidata How other projects have been approached Wikidata: WikiProject: Cultural Venues https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Cultural_venues aims/scope history/background Ways to contribute List of participants Can ask questions: how are they modeling data, look at properties they are using Model items Will talk about this more in next meeting. Add yours to list (in agenda above) if want to discuss

Suggested future topic From Scott MacLeod (@WorldUnivAndSch) to Everyone: (09:53 AM) Future possible topic? Wikidata for brain science, libraries at the cellular and atomic levels, and with an all languages’ approach … and into brain simulations in a realistic virtual earth for species?