2022-08-24

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?
• People in Wikidata who don’t have sources 
• Interested in HoT project https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/projects/african-american-texas 
• General idea: create selected/reviewed dataset from special HoT project, for workshop attendees to work from
• 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

• • 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

• 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?
    • 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

• 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

• 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. 

• Meet 9/7 to build out planning tasks and assignments and refine, get into the weeds
• Investigate HoT ID concerns raised by Elliot