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''Facto Post'' – Issue 8 – 15 January 2018
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| Facto Post – Issue 8 – 15 January 2018
=Metadata on the March=
From the days of hard-copy liner notes on music albums, metadata have stood outside a piece or file, while adding to understanding of where it comes from, and some of what needs to be appreciated about its content. In the GLAM sector, the accumulation of accurate metadata for objects is key to the mission of an institution, and its presentation in cataloguing.
Today Wikipedia turns 17, with worlds still to conquer. Zooming out from the individual GLAM object to the ontology in which it is set, one such world becomes apparent: GLAMs use custom ontologies, and those introduce massive incompatibilities. From a [https://medium.com/@alexstinson/wikidata-in-collections-building-a-universal-language-for-connecting-glam-catalogs-59b14aa3214c recent article] by {{noping|sadads}}, we quote the observation that "vocabularies needed for many collections, topics and intellectual spaces defy the expectations of the larger professional communities." A job for the encyclopedist, certainly. But the data-minded Wikimedian has the advantages of Wikidata, starting with its multilingual data, and facility with aliases. The controlled vocabulary — sometimes referred to as a "thesaurus" as term of art — simplifies search: if a "spade" must be called that, rather than "shovel", it is easier to find all spade references. That control comes at a cost.
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Case studies in that article show what can lie ahead. The schema crosswalk, in jargon, is a potential answer to the GLAM Babel of proliferating and expanding vocabularies. Even if you have no interest in Wikidata as such, simply vocabularies V and W, if both V and W are matched to Wikidata, then a "crosswalk" arises from term v in V to w in W, whenever v and w both match to the same item d in Wikidata.
For metadata mobility, match to Wikidata. It's apparently that simple: infrastructure requirements have turned out, so far, to be challenges that can be met.
=Links=
- 1lib1ref campaign starts today, see m:The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref: also [https://videos.mysimpleshow.com/CMygtDdRaE #1lib1ref introductory video] by {{noping|Felix Nartey}}
- [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00104-7 Funders should mandate open citations], article 9 January 2018 in Nature by David Shotton
- [https://hackmd.io/s/B1fhoKWMz# From snowflake to avalanche: Possibilities of using free citation data in libraries], translation from the [https://www.o-bib.de/article/view/2017H4S127-136 German original] of Annette Klein, Mannheim University Library
- outreach:GLAM/Newsletter/December 2017/Contents/WMF GLAM report
- [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/hollywood-says-its-not-planning-another-copyright-extension-push/ Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 copyright extension probably won't happen again: Copyrights from the 1920s will start expiring next year if Congress doesn't act], Timothy B. Lee, 8 January 2018, Arstechnica
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Books and Bytes - Issue 26
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Issue 26, December – January 2018
# 1Lib1Ref- User Group update
- Global branches update
- Spotlight: What can we glean from OCLC’s experience with library staff learning Wikipedia?
- Bytes in brief
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''Facto Post'' – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018
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=Wikidata as Hub=
One way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the semantic web concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of linked structured data, and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites.
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Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8.
Wikipedia:External links speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php Wikidata Resolver tool], these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The [https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/ hub tool] by {{noping|maxlath}} takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL.
=Links=
- [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/29/glam-multimedia-metadata-commons/ What galleries, libraries, archives, and museums can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons], Wikimedia Foundation blogpost, 29 January 2018, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
- m:The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref/Connect, 2018 institutional participation in the #1lib1ref campaign
- Newspeak House queries, created at 3 February 2018 event in London led by {{noping|Magnus Manske}}
- Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative, Wikipedia Signpost special report 5 February 2018, by {{noping|JenOttowa}}
- [https://www.edge.org/the-last-question-1?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y&refsrc=email&iid=c127a5fa4fc34ed4b37a2c5ab39331d0&uid=520433517&nid=244+272699400 What is the Last Question?], 5 February 2018
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=Your March editathon=
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''Facto Post'' – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018
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=Milestone for mix'n'match=
Around the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match mix'n'match] tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author, {{noping|Magnus Manske}}, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal.
Since the [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=114 end of 2013], mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders.
These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. m:Mix'n'match/Manual for more.
For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading.
Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite!
=Links=
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- [https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/wikipedia-goes-3d-allowing-users-upload-stls-digital-reference-129340/ Wikipedia goes 3D allowing users to upload .STLs for digital reference], Beau Jackson for 3dprintingindustry.com, February 22 2018
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRK_MltUezA&feature=youtu.be&t=236 WikiCite report (video)]
- [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185065 Formal publication and announcement of ISBN citation dataset], see [https://twitter.com/i/web/status/967064062616981504 Twitter post], February 23 2018
- [http://dataviz-literacy.wmflabs.org/#section-introduction Plotting the Course Through Charted Waters], workshop on data visualization literacy from Mikhail Popov, Wikimedia Foundation
- [https://blog.ehri-project.eu/2018/02/12/using-wikidata/ Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos], Nancy Cooey, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, February 12 2018
- [https://longair.net/blog/2017/11/29/sparql-wikidata/ Why Should You Learn SPARQL? Wikidata!] Mark Longair, blogpost November 29 2017
- [http://www.zdnet.com/article/back-to-the-future-does-graph-database-success-hang-on-query-language/ Back to the future: Does graph database success hang on query language?], George Anadiotis for Big on Data, March 5 2018
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Women in Red's April+Further with Art+Feminism 2018
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''Facto Post'' – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018
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=The 100 Skins of the Onion=
[https://i4oc.org/news.html#April2018 Open Citations Month], with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that.
Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A [http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/03/22/releasing-1-8-million-open-access-publications-from-publisher-systems-for-text-and-data-mining/ recent LSE IMPACT blogpost] puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron.
Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF.
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From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart.
=Links=
- [https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-r2s234 Crossref as a new source of citation data: A comparison with Web of Science and Scopus], CWTS blogpost 17 January 2018, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy Sugimoto
- [https://figshare.com/articles/Wikipedia_Scholarly_Article_Citations/1299540 Citations with identifiers in Wikipedia, figshare dataset]
- [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/29/increasing-visibility-women-with-wikidata/ Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools!], Wikimedia blogpost 29 March 2018 by Sandra Fauconnier
- Village pump discussion, Turn on mapframe? We’re ready if you are reaches conclusions
- [https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbernick/2018/03/28/the-power-of-the-wikimedia-movement-beyond-wikimedia/#1aa669e75a75 The Power of the Wikimedia Movement beyond Wikimedia], Forbes 28 March 2018, Michael Bernick
- [https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2018/03/26/tracing-stolen-bitcoin/ Tracing stolen bitcoin], blogpost 26 March 2018 by Ross J. Anderson
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Books & Bytes - Issue 27
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Issue 27, February – March 2018
# 1Lib1Ref- New collections
- Alexander Street (expansion)
- Cambridge University Press (expansion)
- User Group
- Global branches update
- Wiki Indaba Wikipedia + Library Discussions
- Spotlight: Using librarianship to create a more equitable internet: LGBTQ+ advocacy as a wiki-librarian
- Bytes in brief
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WikiProject Parenting proposal
I would appreciate your input on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Parenting. Cheers! Mvolz (talk) 08:17, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Bay Area WikiSalon invitation!
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Periodically, on the last Wednesday evening of the month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to munch, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.
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