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Introduction, agenda reviewPaloma
Progress from last meetingKatie, all

Share ideas in progress for workshop

  • Looking at HoT and what might be good additions to Wikidata
    • She created a Google Sheet with the entries for different categories 
    • Teach people how to add a HoT reference to the Wikidata entry for each person?
    • Teach people how to create a Wikidata entry for people not yet in Wikidata?
  • Questions/considerations: 
    • Elliot: where do we find the Handbook of Texas ID that is listed as a Wikidata property – I don’t see if anywhere on the public pages of the Handbook, so not sure how we would find that to include in Wikidata for new items we create.
    • Paloma ran queries and found many people in HoT are not represented in NACO - indicates value of creating Wikidata entries.

Choose dataset of common interest for first Wikidata workshop

AllHandbook of Texas - https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/projects
    • Special projects to expand info on women/tejanos/african americans in Texas are compelling, we should choose one of those
    • HoT would presumably be of broad interest among TDL community, and idea for it actually came from TDL Linked Data Community of Practice conversation.
    • Tie into IDEA efforts - timing with observances, like Hispanic Heritage Month Sept-Oct
Finalize Workshop main detailsAll
  • When – TBD 
    • slower part of semester, Dec-Jan ideal target
    • Mondays or Fridays = less schedule conflicts
  • Where – Zoom
  • Number of sessions and duration
    • 2 sessions, 1.5 hours or less each 
      • 1st covering intro, rationale, account creation, Wikidata basics, adding properties
      • 2nd covering adding properties, creating entries, queries
      • Michael suggests 2 sessions in same day, with multi-hour break in middle (“Learning Sprint”) - 1-1.5 hours in morning, .5-1 hour in afternoon
      • >> move forward with planning these 2 sessions, with intention to inquire with anticipated attendees on pref for same day sprint or 2 sessions a week apart.
  • Main goals / outcomes
    • Develop Wikidata skills and familiarity among colleagues as foundation for potential Linked Data initiatives/collaborations
    • Increase number and completeness of Wikidata entries for people in HoT (tying in to concerns about credibility of Wikidata)
    • IDEA tie-ins: amplifying awareness of HoT projects to diversify representation in resource, and expanding impact of these HoT projects by developing related Wikidata
  • High level content/structure
    • Start with adding source property for existing Wikidata entries, build towards creating entries, querying
    • Paloma suggestions for segments, in order:
      • What is Wikimedia/Wikidata
      • Overview of Item/property model
      • High priority properties, credibility
      • Intro to dataset, plan for activity (claiming items in list, adding properties)
      • Hands-on exercise time
      • Questions/discussion period
      • Intro to Queries/exploring
      • Review of select Wikidata tools for editors
    • Melanie asks when best to prompt attendees to create accounts?
      • Also good tool to track outcome of workshop edits. 
      • Paloma says this is the better link: 
    • Ideal before we get to hands-on activity
      • Paloma suggests we consider using https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/ as part of workshop setup, and as a means to prompt folks to create accounts before workshop
      • Also good tool to track outcome of workshop edits. 
      • Ideal before we get to hands-on activity
    • Yogita suggests possibly adding a component/angle for linking the Wikidata entries to others/institutions/collections
      • E.g. visibility of who else is editing same entries
Develop workshop planning tasks and assignmentsAll
  • Rationale
  • Finalize Dataset - Katie and Yogita volunteer
    • Need to also check whether those HoT items with Wikidata entries have reference already or not
  • Hands-on Activity development
  • Workshop segments - Paloma volunteers to develop Queries segment
Brief check-in on TDL Linked Data Community of PracticePaloma, Melanie
  • No second meeting scheduled...yet.
  • Plans to share our workshop developments with them, for inspiration/cross-pollination, potentially building towards a TDL audience. 
    • >> Email list with workshop development report
      • priming people for potential requests for feedback
      • mention HoT details, so that we aren't inadvertently duplicating efforts with anyone
  • Ideal scheduling of those meetings in relation to these is still tbd. 
Look ahead, action items before & by next monthly meetingPaloma
  • Meet 9/7 to build out planning tasks and assignments and refine, get into the weeds
  • Investigate HoT ID concerns raised by Elliot

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