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Notes for discussion with Federal Enterprise MediaWiki demonstration group, 26 Nov 2018
 
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
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* Conference was in Columbus, Ohio, at Columbus public library and at Ohio State, Oct 18-21, 2018
 
* [https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Schedule Conference schedule]
 
* [https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Schedule Conference schedule]
   
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; Structured data and wikidata
* [[Submissions:2018/Wikidata in research libraries: community-owned scholarly infrastructure to advance mission Presentation from ARL (Association of Research Libraries) committee on how librarians can integrate with Wikidata]]
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* [[Submissions:2018/Wikidata in research libraries: community-owned scholarly infrastructure to advance mission| Presentation from ARL (Association of Research Libraries) committee on how librarians can integrate with Wikidata]]
* [[Submissions:2018/Update:_Structured_Data_on_Commons Structured data on Wikimedia Commons]] under development, analogous to a museum's curation of online files
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* [[Submissions:2018/Update:_Structured_Data_on_Commons|Structured data on Wikimedia Commons]] under development, analogous to a museum's curation of online files
 
* [[Submissions:2018/Introduction to Wikidata-driven infoboxes|Wikidata infoboxes]] -- usable on English Wikipedia now; more common on other Wikipedias; [[w:The Education of Henry Adams|Illustration of such an infobox]]
 
* [[Submissions:2018/Introduction to Wikidata-driven infoboxes|Wikidata infoboxes]] -- usable on English Wikipedia now; more common on other Wikipedias; [[w:The Education of Henry Adams|Illustration of such an infobox]]
   

Latest revision as of 19:36, 28 November 2018

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, Oct 18-21, 2018
  • Conference schedule

Topics

Local libraries and archives
  • We visited real-world libraries and archives and museums
  • 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 archives/library
Structured data and wikidata
Tools

Education: Use of Wikimedia for classwork

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 (all of 1923 I think)
  • their project identifies many magazine/journal works up to 1960s whose copyrights were not renewed, and creates data records so they can be identified and classified

A project of mine: My lightning talk on (my) patents project on Wikidata