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American Folklife Center’s Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon: Biographical Entries on Women Folklorists, Ethnomusicologists, and Fieldworkers

Join the American Folklife Center on February 8th for an Edit-A-Thon to expand the online presence of women who documented the world. This event is part of its multi-year initiative to highlight, explore, and celebrate the contributions of women as ethnographic fieldworkers and scholars and call attention to the instrumental role of women in establishing many of the seminal collections that now enrich the AFC archive and ethnographic archives throughout the world. During the Edit-A-Thon, we plan to add and/or expand entries for approximately 25-30 women, both historic and contemporary, who documented traditional culture. We will focus of those whose collections are now housed in the AFC archive. Activities will be centered at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, but off-site participation is encouraged. AFC staff will be on hand to assist on-site and off-site researchers and provide archival materials.

No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Training will be provided.

Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Lunch will be provided.

The American Folklife Center Reading Room is located on the ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Room G53. Participants can enter through the ground floor “carriage entrance” for researchers. The closest metro stops are Capitol South (blue, orange, and silver lines) or Union Station (red line). 2 hour street parking in the area is limited; participants are highly encouraged to use public transportation to avoid parking issues.

All participants should bring a fully charged laptop, as outlets in the rooms are limited.

Registration is required.

When

Saturday, February 8, 2020 Time: 11am - 3pm

Where

American Folklife Center
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave.
Washington, DC

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Presentation[edit]

Slides American Folklife Center edit-a-thon 2020

Safe Space Policy[edit]

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Wikipedia Policies[edit]

Quick Editing Tips[edit]

  • Information about alt text: https://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/ and https://accessibility.psu.edu/images/alttext/

    • Tools, Resources and WikiProjects[edit]

    Coordination[edit]

    TO AVOID EDITING THE SAME ARTICLES AS OTHER ATTENDEES, please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes. REMEMBER TO PUBLISH (SAVE) OFTEN.

    ETHERPAD

    Library resources for research[edit]

    Resources for Research at the Library - American Folklife Center

    Suggested Work List[edit]

    Section headings indicate article rating. Read more about the Article Assessment Quality Scale

    For Creation[edit]

    Dates Active1946-1947
    Area/Topic: Cuba
    LC Catalog: AFC 1948/025: Katharine Beardmore Recordings of Cuban Folk Music
    Dates Active: 1920s
    Area/Topic: Cochiti, Hopi, Navajo, and Taos cylinder recordings
    LC Catalog
    Area/Topic: Ozarks
    Associate: Brewer, Vaughn
    LC Catalog
    Area/Topic:Appalachia; Protestant revival meetings
    Area/Topic:1979 interview with MI collector; major collections in NY & Michigan; we only have interview, but people should know we have it
    Associate: Lynch, Joanne C.
    Area/Topic: Ohio
    Dates Active: 1939
    Area/Topic: Trinidad; Brazil
    Associate: Herskovits, Melville J.
    Sarah Gertrude Knott
    Dates Active: 1895-1984
    Area/Topic: National Folklife Festival; not a lot on her AFC, but as founder of NCTA's festival related to large collection
    Associate: Korson, George
    Area/Topic: Multi-faceted career both with and after Alan Lomax
    Associate: Lomax, Alan
    Area/Topic: OFP-Baton Rouge workers
    LC Catalog: Symposium and archie green
    Area/Topic: Domincan Republic
    Associate: Boggs, Mrs. Ralph Steele (later)
    Area/Topic:AFC field projects
    Area/Topic: Native American (Seri)

    Stub[edit]

    Area/Topic: Chicana/Latinx
    LC Catalog, AFC 2006/043
    Margot Mayo and Bascom Lamar Lunsford
    Dates Active: 1940s-
    Area/Topic: Appl; NY; various; square and folk dance
    Area/Topic: Romania
    Associate: Popescu-Judetz, Gheorghe

    Start[edit]

    Dates Active: 1950s
    Area/Topic: Venezula
    Associate: Ramon y Rivera, Luis Filipe
    Area/Topic: NA; NM
    LC Catalog
    Area/Topic: China, Burma
    LC Catalog AFC 2006/004
    Dates Active: 1906-1908
    Area/Topic: Luiseno and Diegueno tribes, Southern CA
    Associate: Lummis, Charles
    LC Catalog, AFC 1956/010
    Source, Cornell
    Area/TopicAfrica
    Area/Topic: Pottery;NC; crafts; Armenia
    Area/Topic: Haiti
    Area/Topic: ND-FL, GA, AZ, CA
    Area/Topic: Mexico; Ireland
    Area/Topic: ND-CA, South, MW

    C[edit]

    Dates Active: 1915-1978
    Area/Topic: ND-KY, Fl, TN, NYC; Bahamas
    Associate: Lomax, Alan
    LC Catalog: 5 AFC collections
    Source, Harvard Library
    Area/Topic: New Guinea; Africa
    LC Catalog
    Area/Topic: NA
    Associate: McLellan, Catherine
    LC Catalog, AFC 1964/024
    Additional Sources :Source, University of Alaska
    Source, Bryn Mawr College
    Area/Topic: NA
    LC Catalog: AFS 10,515-10,744: American Indian Recordings; AFS 21,266: Frances Densmore Clayoquot Recordings; AFS 21,267: Frances Densmore Makah Recordings
    Dates Active: 1885-1976
    Area/Topic: Appalachian; ICTM; Cecil Sharp; etc
    Associate: Robertson Cowel, Sidney
    Area/Topic: TN, NC; British Isles
    Associate: Pickow
    LC Catalog: AFC 1959/013: "Música de los cultos Africanos en Cuba" compiled by Lydia Cabrera
    Source, University of Miami
    LC Catalog

    B[edit]

    Associate: Seeger, Pete
    Area/Topic: ND-FL, SC, Haiti


    Knowledge Graph and Table[edit]

    Wikidata Graph Builder view of the "folklore" ontology:

    TABernacle table of the 31 unique women in the list above:

    tabernacle-session-folklorist-women

    A new tool called Knowledge Grapher assists in the creation of Wikidata knowledge graphs to show connectedness among Wikidata items. It can take a list of Wikipedia articles or Wikidata items to find the relationships and visualize them. A graph with the women listed above and their professions:

    Wikidata Knowledge Graph related to women in folklore - 2020-02-06

    Attendees[edit]

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