[Metadatalibrarians] LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group: Summer/Fall Wikidata Working Hour Series Seventh Session November 20th!

[Hilary K Thorsen]

Greetings, everyone –



Over the summer and into the fall the <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group> 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/Wikidata_Working_Hour_Summer-Fall_Project_2023> to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it 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, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to.



The seventh Wikidata Working Hour will cover the Author Disambiguator tool, which helps users assign authors to articles. During the session we will demonstrate how to use the tool on an author who was created during a previous working hour, and another who doesn't exist in Wikidata yet. After the demonstration, participants are encouraged to try the tool themselves during the rest of the working hour. This session will build on the work done in previous Working Hours by connecting authors to the articles they have written.


Date and time: Monday, November 20th, 2023 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 18:00 UTC / 7:00pm WAT / 7:00pm CET (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1700503200>)

Zoom link to join:  https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95381033252?pwd=dFU4WXBXS1JySEhzemJvNktHQURUdz09

Password: 073880

Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-November-20_Wikidata_Working_Hour



Subsequent Working Hours will cover an open editing hour and analyzing and visualizing data with SPARQL and Scholia.


This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page.


To be sure to receive announcements about future Wikidata Working hours, <https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata> 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: https://join.slack.com/t/ld4/shared_invite/zt-23u674xs5-_E7sS0SWJwsBNsNvrILo7Q

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

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

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