2022-08-24

Introduction, agenda review

Paloma

Progress from last meeting

Katie, 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?

  • 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

All

Handbook of Texas - https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/projects

Finalize Workshop main details

All

• 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

Develop workshop planning tasks and assignments

All

• 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 Practice

Paloma, 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 meeting

Paloma

• Meet 9/7 to build out planning tasks and assignments and refine, get into the weeds

• Investigate HoT ID concerns raised by Elliot