2019:Libraries/Wikidata and bibliographic infrastructure - Dream big!
 | This is an Accepted submission for the Libraries space at Wikimania 2019. |
- Notes
- This session is a lightning talk and will take place from 10:25 to 10:40 on Day 3 (August 18) in Alexievich (D416).
- If you are interested to attend please add yourself here.
- To view the overall program of the Libraries space, please visit 2019:Libraries/Program.
Description
[edit | edit source]SLIDES. This session will look at how Wikidata could help to revolutionize bibliographic infrastructure. Marc 21 was designed to bring bibliographic data into the 21st century, but the rapid growth of linked data and Wikidata presents an exciting opportunities to make data better. The talk will draw on the speakers experience in exploring the possibilities around sharing the complete Welsh Bibliography via Wikidata, and will focus on ideas and potential for the future.Wikidata helps to disambiguate authors and provides richer information about publishers. Using Identifiers can help standardize data across multiple institutions. Looking at exciting examples such as the work of the National Library of the Netherlands in using Wikidata entities on Newspaper OCR data, the speaker will explore possibilities and the potential of applying this combination of machine learning and Wikidata to the digit al texts of Books. Can the IIIF image standard play a role in understanding and mapping the contents on a book in a machine readable way? and how does all of this fit in with the growing WikiCite initiative? The session will hopefully get attendees thinking about the options open to Libraries in the future, rather than simply reporting on what is happening now.
Relationship to the theme
[edit | edit source]This session will address the conference theme — Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals — in the following manner: The session focuses on ideas for the future which would potentially improve access to knowledge and help gain access to reliable information. This would benefit education and access to free knowledge.
Session outcomes
[edit | edit source]At the end of the session, the following will have been achieved:
- attendees will be inspired to think about and discuss the possibilities around bibliographic data
- attendees will have a better understanding of how multiple technologies could be applied in order to enrich and revolutionize the way we think about bibliographic data.
Session leader(s)
[edit | edit source]Jason Evans
Session type
[edit | edit source]Each Space at Wikimania 2019 will have specific format requests. The program design prioritises submissions which are future-oriented and directly engage the audience. The format of this submission is a:
- Lightning talk
Requirements
[edit | edit source]The session will work best with these conditions:
- Room:
Anywhere would be fine
- Audience:
No limit on numbers. A basic understanding or interest in Bibliographic data would be useful but not essential.
- Recording:
Yes, fine
- Time requested:
7-10 minutes
Interested attendees
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