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Notes for discussion with Federal Enterprise MediaWiki demonstration group, 26 Nov 2018
- Conference was in Columbus, Ohio, at Columbus public library and at Ohio State
- Conference schedule
Topics
- STRUCTURED WIKIDATA: Wikidata training on first days, and hackathon
- Wikidata infoboxes -- used more outside English, but usable on English -- Illustration of such an infobox
- Relatedly: data on Wikimedia Commons under development, analogous to a museum's curation of online files
- LIBRARY/ARCHIVES: Visited real-world libraries and archives
- At Ohio's state archives, saw weekly maps of Europe from U.S. military in WWII, vast rows of records
- at central Columbus public library, saw large scale precise scanners for digitizing documents of many kinds
- ONLINE LIBRARY/ARCHIVES
- Presentation by Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive
- [Submissions:2018/Wikidata in research libraries: community-owned scholarly infrastructure to advance mission Presentation from ARL (Association of Research Libraries) on how librarians can integrate with Wikidata]
- OCLC/Worldcat presenters on the metadata systems of libraries, MARC records, planned improvements
- EDUCATION: Several on use of Wikimedia in classroom
- COPYRIGHT: John Mark Ockerbloom on U of Penn project identifying works out of copyright (federally funded research)
- Almost all works before 1923 are free of copyright in the U.S.; starting in January 2019, more materials will be copyright-free (from 1923 I think); their project covers many magazine/journal works up to 1960s whose copyrights were not renewed
- Maps, automatic timelines, data charts: Submissions:2018/Life beyond TEXT: maps, graphs, data, and the future of interactivity -- can upload a JSON-formatted data file and get a chart out of it
- Effort to gather video and related content from "small languages", Wikitongues
- Other topics
- Possible training for Wikimedia admins
- My lightning talk on (my) patents project on Wikidata
- Effort to gather Wikimedia tools together on a platform with standard info about them (Toolhub, under development by James Hare) -- see subsequent presentations too on tools