2022-02-23

• Some new faces
  • Stacy Olavide
    • Cartographic cataloger at PCL. Has been cataloging books during the past 2 years due to the lockdown. Has get pretty interested in metadata work through the conversations around reparative metadata initiatives. Understands linked data as an expansion upon cataloging work. Very fascinated about non-MARC cataloging and where things are going  with linked data projects.
  • Albert Palacios
    • Digital Scholarship Coordinator at Lillas Benson Latin American Collections. Took the wikidata course from the Seiler workshop series. Haven't had the change to get very deep into it yet. Current grant project around creating models to transcribe Spanish Colonial era materials. Expects to extract large loads of textual materials as data, and very interested in learning more about linked data.
  • Elliot Williams
    • DPLA metadata aggregation service coordinator for the TDL. Interested in thinking about different ways in which people create metadata and how to use linked data to connect different resources and collections across institutions.
  • Alyssa Guzman
    •  Digital Scholarship Librarian and the Diversity Resident Coordinator. Came to earlier meetings of the group. 

Katie  

• Paloma
  • Descriptive metadata related to resources on the Architecture Archives
  • Projects (2)
    • Creating Wikidata entries for people in the archives that don't have a wikidata item yet using the finding aids as reference source
    • GIS data set from one of the collections – reconciling names and places (building names) with wikidata and creating new missing items on wikidata – using a GIS specific database to explore the data
• Questions
  • Albert - Is the group sharing workflows on how to create and contribute to wikidata? 
    
    • Katie – they have very robust documentation of the workflows that they are happy to share. There have also been many opportunities to share about these projects and workflows within this group. Need to move 
  • Albert - I wonder if that could be transformed into a general workflow guide for faculty and students to use for thrown work
  • Alyssa – If interested in sharing documentation with faculty and students, then they can be added to the digital humanities libGuide (https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/sb.php?subject_id=115239). There is also a scholarship LibGuides (https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/sb.php?subject_id=115239). If we were interested in creating a specific libguide of linked data, then that is a larger project.

• Melanie - we are looking for ways to expand out the group of people that comes to these meetings, and looking for networking and potential collaboration opportunities on campus or locally. The Digital Humanities and Digital Scholarship communities seem to be an potential ally for us. Any low hanging fruit that we could start with in terms of promoting this visibility and get the networking started? Do you see potential in hosting Wikidata edit-a-thons?
  • Alyssa
    • Any announcements that you want to share with the campus DH community can be sent to the listserv digitalhumanities@utlists.utexas.edu. Anyone 
    • had a very well attended workshop on editing Wikipedia. A Wikidata workshop would probably be great. Would love to have us do something on the Fall series
    • Folks who have been doing wiki-edit-a-thons have had a lot of success. Gina Bastone (English Librarian) has been very involved on those. 
    • Another potential venue would be ADH
• Can you describe the landscape of the communities you are engaged with in your roles?
• Are you aware of other Wikidata or linked data-related projects around campus?
• We have some ideas about raising visibility for our Wikidata projects  - what do you think, and do you have other ideas/suggestions?
• Open floor to other questions