Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia/Program for Cooperative Cataloging May 2019

Intro to Wikidata
	Program for Cooperative Cataloging
Event details
Date:	Friday 3 May 2019
Time	1-4pm
Where:	Montpelier Room, 6th floor, James Madison Memorial Building
Slides	Intro to Wikidata
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The PCC (Program for Cooperative Cataloging) is hosting "Intro to Wikidata", a private event for librarians attending PCC Operations Meeting held in the Library of Congress. Wikipedia has been a highly popular source of information for a generation and continues to influence thought in all fields. Increasingly Wikipedia relies on Wikidata, a structured data collection which supports Wikipedia and also curates datasets for reference and general use. Please come prepared to learn about Wikidata by editing it directly on your laptop.

Agenda

0:00-0:05 - Welcome

0:05-0:15 - Introduction to Wikidata, overview of day's activites

0:15-0:20 - Questions, demos

0:20-0:50 - Let's edit!

0:50-1:05 - Wikidata data models - the instructions for editing items and performing queries

1:05-1:30 - (review properties, propose one? some suggestions)

1:30-1:45 - Showcase - participants show and tell what they edited and why

1:45-1:55 - Wikidata Query Service demonstration

1:55-2:30 - (editing items + queries + data models)

2:30-2:45 - Showcase - participants show and tell what they edited and why

2:45-3:00 - Goodbye and overview of possible next steps - Wikidata waits for your return

Advance preparation

To prepare for the event, please do and consider the following:

Create a Wikimedia account now if you do not have one. Be ready to log in at the event!
After you have a Wikimedia account, please register for this event so that the hosts can have a list of participants and report of what people edited.
Please bring your computer
Please have your computer charged.
In the workshop you will create two Wikidata identities (either persons or corporate bodies) for faculty/academic staff members or organizations at your institution. Please be prepared to describe two identities, and for each one, bring two supporting publications for each (think of these supporting publications as the “670” fields of a NACO record you would create for the identity). It does not matter if the entities you create in Wikidata are already represented in the LC/NACO Authority File. If there is a NACO record for the identity, you will link to it from the Wikidata description.
Advance knowledge, reading, or study is not required. However, either before or after the event you may wish to consider these introductory materials: