Thanks for sharing the ARL whitepaper Merrilee. I've shared it with my colleagues in the national library of the Netherlands, to foster awareness op Wikiata.
With kind regards, Olaf Janssen Wikimedia & Open data @KB, Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland [email protected] www.kb.nl/wikipedia + 31 70 3140 388 Afwezig op maandag -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Libraries <[email protected]> Namens [email protected] Verzonden: vrijdag 19 april 2019 14:00 Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: Libraries Digest, Vol 82, Issue 14 Send Libraries mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Libraries digest..." Today's Topics: 1. ARL White Paper of interest (Merrilee Proffitt) 2. Fwd: [Commons-l] Depicts statements coming to Commons this week (15 April) (Sandra Fauconnier) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:02:59 -0700 From: Merrilee Proffitt <[email protected]> To: "Wikimedia & Libraries" <[email protected]> Subject: [libraries] ARL White Paper of interest Message-ID: <cadnm1f9s9vikj55f7nv-n59pj9fbja692za2pfdjlccojsr...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Colleagues, The Association of Research Libraries has issued a white paper on Wikidata and how it is / may be utilized by libraries. https://www.arl.org/news/arl-news/4748-arl-white-paper-on-wikidata-highlights-use-of-open-knowledge-in-scholarly-communication-special-collections#.XLkBfehKhPY Many thanks to those of you who commented on and made an earlier draft stronger. Merrilee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/libraries/attachments/20190418/a63a132a/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:54:23 +0200 From: Sandra Fauconnier <[email protected]> To: "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" <[email protected]>, North American Cultural Partnerships <[email protected]>, "Wikimedia & Libraries" <[email protected]> Subject: [libraries] Fwd: [Commons-l] Depicts statements coming to Commons this week (15 April) Message-ID: <CAOafpdjZvE7LVx9jZ4vj8KGWRzV9vBPi9TPe_5RRrVOX7O=d...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hello everyone! Just a quick update on Structured Data on Commons deployments. You may have noticed that we haven't deployed Depicts statements yet yesterday, and this is due to an unrelated bug. The release has been rescheduled to upcoming Tuesday. Cheers! Sandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:48 PM Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Depicts statements coming to Commons this week (15 April) To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <[email protected]>, < [email protected]> Unfortunately the release was blocked by an unrelated bug [1], and must be rescheduled. Releases are not done on Fridays, so the team has \rescheduled for Tuesday, 23 April from 15:00-16:00 UTC [2]. I'll continue to keep the community posted as release approaches. 1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221368 2. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#deploycal-item-20190423T1500 On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:40 PM Keegan Peterzell <[email protected]> wrote: > A notice that the team still plans to deploy depicts statements to > Commons tomorrow, 18 April 2019, between 15:00-16:00 UTC. Feedback > post-deployment is welcome on the SDC talk page: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 4:39 PM Keegan Peterzell > <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> (This message is also posted at the Commons Village Pump, and the SDC >> talk page) >> >> The Structured Data on Commons [0] team plans to release support for >> depicts statements this week, on Thursday, 18 April. The community's >> testing over the past several weeks [1] helped identify and fix >> issues before launch, and the development team spent time setting up >> extensive internal testing to make sure the release goes as well as possible. >> >> This release is very simple, with only the most basic depicts >> statements available. There is a significant amount of technological >> change happening with this project, and this release contains a lot >> of background change that the team needs to make sure works fine live >> on Commons before adding further support. More parts to depicts >> statements, and other statements, will be released within the next few weeks. >> >> A page for depicts has been set up at Commons:Depicts [2] As I can't >> actually write instructive Commons policy or guidelines, I encourage >> those who have tried out simple depicts tagging add a few lines to >> the page suggesting proper use of the tool. I also encourage the use >> to be conservative at first, as we wait for more advanced features >> within the coming month or two as additional statement support goes live. >> >> I'll keep the community updated as the plans progress throughout the >> week, the team will know better within the next day or two if things >> are definitely okay to proceed with release. >> >> 0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data >> 1. >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involv >> ed/Feedback_requests/Depicts_testing >> 2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Depicts >> >> -- >> Keegan Peterzell >> Community Relations Specialist >> Wikimedia Foundation >> > > > -- > Keegan Peterzell > Community Relations Specialist > Wikimedia Foundation > -- Keegan Peterzell Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l -- Sandra Fauconnier (she/her) Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @glamwiki How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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