Wikidata:Events/FindingGLAMs: Wikidata, Librarians and Linked Open Data
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A Wikidata workshop at Madina Institute of Science and Technology on 27 February 2020, organized by Global Open Initiative Foundation as part of the FindingGLAMs project by Wikimedia Sverige (Sweden), UNESCO and the Wikimedia Foundation.
After attending the workshop, participants will
- Learn how Wikidata triple statements are organized
- and use that knowledge to create / contribute bibliographic data to Wikidata.
- Learn to write basic SPARQL queries (examples will concern Library properties).
- Learn how to use Scholia as a tool for visualizing WikiCite data.
Program[edit]
Facilitators[edit]
- Mohammed Sadat Abdulai
- Zita Ursula Zage
- Sadik Shahadu
- Emmanuel Yeboah
- Gabriel Amuzu Joe
Time[edit]
Thursday February 27, 10:00 - 15:00 UTC
Location[edit]
Multipurpose Building, Madina Institute of Science and Technology (on Google maps)
Schedule[edit]
- Introductions, snacks, coffee (10am - 10:30am)
- General introduction to Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects (10:30am - 10:45am)
- Structured Data & Linked Open Data (10:45am - 11:00am)
- Introduction to Wikidata for Librarians (11:00 - 11:30pm)
- Scholia as a tool for visualizing Wikidata bibliographical data (11:30 - 12pm)
- Lunch (12pm- 12:30pm)
- Contributing new data to Wikidata (12:30pm - 2pm)
- Basic SPARQL queries (2pm - 2:45pm)
- Next steps, group photos (2:45pm - 3pm)
- Closing - 3pm
Resources[edit]
- Presentation slides by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai
- Presentation slides by Zita Ursula Zage
- Wikidata:Main Page
- Wikidata:List of properties
- Wikidata Query Service
- Example Queries
- Library and Information Science journals
- List of authors unsuccessfully nominated for Nobel prize in literature
- Birth places of Ghanaian poets
- Works by women that were born between 1800 and 1900, are in the WomenWriters database and are translated
- Make a list of the most used authority control properties for people for painters
- Actors who played the same role more than 40 years apart
- Books by a given Author including genres, series, and publication year
- Most common Zika author
- Suriname citation corpora
- Most popular subjects of scientific articles
- Scientific journals with editors on Twitter
- Politicians who died of cancer (of any type)
- Inventors killed by their own invention
- Universities of main programming language authors
- Biologists with Twitter accounts
- Find drugs for cancers that target genes related to cell proliferation
- Number of ministers who are themselves children of a minister, per country
- Where were Ghanaian politicians educated at
- What are the occupations of Ghanaian politicians
- List of more example Queries
- Example Queries
- Scholia
- Wikidata third-party editing tools
- User scripts: Display Wikidata Info on sister projects
- Games
- Finding Wikipedia articles with no Wikidata item