All of the branches of the Los Angeles Public Library are in Wikidata. The list is here: http://w.wiki/45D
These are a mix of very-well-described historical landmarks and bare-bones placeholders. My original idea was to use the placeholders as starter items for new editors to expand in a datathon, using the more complete items as examples. Paula On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 8:56 AM Merrilee Proffitt <[email protected]> wrote: > You might also find this Wikidata in One Page resource useful in doing a > general introduction before you get folks to dive into editing. > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:In_one_page > > Figuring out how to structure organizations and their parent / child > relationship is important. As Olaf mentioned, they library system is the > overall administrative home and the branch is a physical location -- some > things belong with the parent, some with the child. It would be great to > model this consistently. > > In the work that OCLC did to acquaint librarians with WIkidata, people on > that project did an discovery and exploration exercise that I think was > good and gave people a chance to explore Wikidata before diving into > editing. I can't take any credit for that whatsoever but you might consider > structuring an activity like that. I can share a copy of that with anyone > who is interested. > > Merrilee > > > > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 7:49 PM Mylee Joseph <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm looking for resources to teach absolute beginners how to add a >> library (public, academic, etc.) to Wikidata. In my case it would be an >> instance of a public library in Australia. >> >> I found this blog post that looks very good >> https://coffeecode.net/creating-and-editing-libraries-in-wikidata.html >> but thought I'd check in case there's anything else people know of? >> >> I've also tried doing it ... see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63873691 >> and would be happy to have any tips on how to improve it, or pointers to >> some best practice examples. >> >> sincerely, Mylee >> user [[Aliaretiree]] >> >> *Mylee Joseph* >> @myleejoseph >> +61 407450739 >> _______________________________________________ >> Libraries mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >> > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >
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