[Metadatalibrarians] LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group: Next Wikidata Working Hour September 2nd on Creating Book Items (Works and Editions)!

[Hilary K Thorsen]

Hi everyone,


Over the summer and into the early fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group> will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours> to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by adding data about diverse children’s books<https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/literature-resources/ccbc-diversity-statistics/> from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide  hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, love children’s books, or have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to.


The fifth and sixth Wikidata Working Hours (Friday, September 2 and Monday, September 12) in the series will cover creating items for books (works and editions) in Wikidata. We are having two sessions on this activity to allow for maximum attendance.


You do not need to have attended the previous Wikidata Working Hours in the series to attend this one.


Date and time: Friday, September 2, 2022 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 7:00pm CEST  CEST (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1662138015>)

Zoom link to join: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99711525447?pwd=NHNpUS80YnFTRHlwMTEyU0tRTG9JZz09
Password: 154018

Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/Wikidata_Working_Hour_Summer-Fall_Project_2022/2022-September-2_Wikidata_Working_Hour


Subsequent Working Hours after September 12 will cover an open editing review session for contributors and publishers, uploading batch metadata to Wikidata using OpenRefine and Quickstatments, and using SPARQL to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata.


You don’t have to attend every session to benefit from the series, but attending whenever possible will offer the best experience in terms of applying skills and tools to a single data set. We’ll also record the demo portions of each Working Hour, so you can always catch up on anything you miss.


To be sure to receive announcements about future Wikidata Working hours, subscribe to the ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata>.


Other ways to follow what’s going on with the Affinity Group:

Ld4-wikidata Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata<https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata>

#wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: <http://bit.ly/ld4slack> https://join.slack.com/t/ld4/shared_invite/zt-1dkz2hlo3-bAwUs0V7cAUfq28U0~ajkQ

Notes in public LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n>

Website: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>


We hope to see you on Friday!