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2021-04-28

2021-04-28

May 19, 2021

Date

Apr 28, 2021

Attendees

  • Melanie

  • Paloma

  • Mary

  • Nancy

  • Brittney

  • Stephanie

  • Brenna

  • Katie Pierce Meyer

  • Beth Dodd

  • Mandy Ryan

Recording

No recording available

Theme

  • Batch updates to Wikidata; Assessment planning

Agenda

  • Housekeeping

    • Survey results

  • Exploring batch updates to Wikidata: LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group quick statements session (00:41:43 QuickStatements)

  • Assessing impact of Wikidata projects

Discussion items

Item

Who

Notes

Item

Who

Notes

Housekeeping

Melanie and Paloma

  • talk through , group focus and member facilitation

  • reschedule May meeting for May 19 due to TCDL conflicts

Watch video from LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group that covers Quickstatements

Paloma

  • View video

    • NOTE: First part of video before QuickStatements segment covers preparing for bulk updates, modeling data for Wikidata

    • Hilary provides introductory level overview of QuickStatements (slides)

    • Add/remove statements, labels, descriptions, and aliases

    • Type commands or paste in commands from spreadsheet or text editor

    • Edit in OpenRefine and export in QuickStatement format

    • Version 2 is recommended (V.1 no longer supported)

    • Robust documentation/help page that details syntax

    • Demo of template spreadsheets (available online? add link here?) Hilary developed for V.1 and CSV syntax for QuickStatements

    • Good-to-know tips 

    • How to go to QuickStatements tool, log in, create new batch, (TIP: test with small number first before going en masse), copy/paste data from spreadsheets, preview, and run.

    • Review of how to convert V1 to CSV syntax

  • Discussion

    • No one here has used QuickStatements before, even though some have heard of it

    • Looks really useful, plan to look at it more closely in future 

    • Links and notes here to refer back to later are helpful

    • Stephanie shares use case in mind: updating source URLs as they change over time (e.g. TARO finding aid URLs changing with updates in progress)

    • Did this video inspire new ideas for anyone?

      • hands-on experimenting seems very doable, appealing 

    • What more about batch updates/processing do we want to know/discuss? Are we ready to move our focus to the next topic?

      • Members report back on experimentation with QuickStatements?

      • Bring questions/challenges to next conversation

      • Post this question to list-serv for more input.

Assessing Wikidata projects

Melanie

  • Impact of adding faculty entries vs. finding aids is different, hard to measure

  • Can we define goals/outcomes we are aiming for, in measurable terms?

    • Increasing access to collections (web page visits?)

    • Creating authority records for common use (number of records created/efficiency in context of PCC authority work/incoming links (Mandy suggests Lighthouse browser plugin)

    • Local use/integrations in our discovery environments 

  • General assessment overview would be helpful, some members don't have that support at their orgs

  • Survey of US institutions using "Archives At" - visual result

  • aim for inviting UTL assessment expert/s as guest speakers for June or July

Looking ahead

Paloma/Melanie 

  • Next meeting topics/plan?

    • Come prepared to discuss measurable outcomes members are aiming for/want to assess

    • Find examples of LD assessment done by others - e.g. PCC wikidata pilot assessment?

Action items

@Melanie Cofield  will ask Assessment experts at UTL to join us in June or July for general overview
@Melanie Cofieldand @Paloma Graciani Picardo will post follow-up questions and prompts to the group list (ongoing batch update topics, assessment topic homework)