[Metadatalibrarians] Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, July 27th

Hilary K Thorsen thorsenh at stanford.edu
Fri Jul 23 17:36:43 PDT 2021


Hello everyone,

We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210727T160000&p1=tz_pt&p2=tz_et&p3=1440&p4=tz_cest>). Andra Waagmeester will be joining us to share work on using Shape Expressions in Wikidata to describe the genomics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The Shape Expression language is used to represent schemas in Wikidata<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Schemas>. You may find this call helpful if you are interested in creating and using schemas for types of Wikidata items.

The call details are below. Everyone is welcome to attend. If you aren't able to attend, the meetings are recorded and meeting notes are available on Google Drive<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n>. To receive notifications about upcoming calls and meeting notes you can subscribe to the ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ld4-wikidata>.

The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the LD4 Community and investigates how libraries can contribute to and better integrate library metadata with Wikidata to improve access to library resources on the web. The Affinity Group calls provide an informal space to share information and learn more about Wikidata.

Call Details:
Date and Time: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210727T160000&p1=tz_pt&p2=tz_et&p3=1440&p4=tz_cest>)
Zoom link to join meeting:
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99294383180?pwd=MER6a01XWWQyU1I0YVVKdTBRM0tDQT09
Password: 968808
Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bHs82DQhlpJq5nD3vq8590r9F9BRFiLSl6VTSrpLzaA/edit?usp=sharing


Working Hours:

Join us for a collaborative hour of editing and Wikidata practice. We will provide a project for the hour, and you’re always welcome to bring your own projects to work on. This is a space for community and skill-building. We welcome your questions and your expertise about all things Wikidata. Subscribe to the ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata> for an announcement of the next working hour.


Upcoming Working Hour dates:

  *   Friday, August 6, 2021 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 7:00pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210806T170000&p1=tz_pt&p2=tz_et&p3=1440&p4=tz_cest>) on Structured Data on Commons with a summer theme
  *   Monday, August 16, 2021 at 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET / 18:00 UTC / 8:00pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210816T180000&p1=tz_pt&p2=tz_et&p3=1440&p4=tz_cest>)


Communication:
Ld4-wikidata Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata
#wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: http://bit.ly/ld4slack
Notes in public LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n
Website: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group

On behalf of the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group co-facilitators



Hilary Thorsen
Resource Sharing Librarian
Stanford Libraries
thorsenh at stanford.edu
650-285-9429


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