Great, Dario! Scott
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:51 AM, Dario Taraborelli < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > Wikimedia Deutschland and the Wikimedia Foundation hosted the WikiCite > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016> event in Berlin last week, > bringing together a large group > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016#Participant_list> of > Wikidatans, Wikipedians, librarians, developers and researchers from all > over the world. > > The event built a lot of momentum around the definition of data models, > workflows and technology needed to better represent source and citation > data from Wikimedia projects, Wikidata in particular. > > While we're still drafting a human-readable report > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Report>, I thought I'd > share > a preview of the notes from the various workgroups, to give you a sense of > what we worked on and to let everyone join the discussion: > Main workgroups > Modeling bibliographic source metadata > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_1> > > Discuss and draft data models to represent different types of sources as > Wikidata items > Reference extraction and metadata lookup tools > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_2> > > Design or improve tools to extract identifiers and bibliographic data from > Wikipedia citation templates, look up and retrieve metadata > Representing citations and citation events > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_3> > > Discuss how to express the citation of a source in a Wikimedia artifact > (such as a Wikipedia article, a Wikidata statements etc.) and review > alternative ways to represent them > (Semi-)automated ways to add references to Wikidata statements > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_4> > > Improve tools for semi-automated statement and reference creation > (StrepHit, ContentMine) > Use cases for source-related queries > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_5> > > Identify use cases for SPARQL queries involving source metadata. Obtain a > small open licensed bibliographic and citation graph dataset to build a > proof-of-concept of the querying and visualization potential of source > metadata in Wikidata. > Additional workgroups > Wikidata as the central hub on license information on databases > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_6> > > Add license information to Wikidata to make Wikidata the central hub on > license information on databases > Using citations and bibliographic source metadata > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_7> > > Merge groups working on citation structure and source metadata models and > integrate their recommendations > Citoid-Wikidata integration > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_8> > > Extend Citoid to write source metadata into Wikidata > > We're opening up the [email protected] mailing list to anyone > interested in interacting with the participants in the event (we encouraged > them to use the official wikidata list for anything of interest to the > broader community). Phabricator also has a dedicated tag > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikicite/> for related initiatives. > > The event was generously funded > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016#Funding> by the Alfred P. > Sloan Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Crossref. > We'll be exploring the feasibility of a follow-up event in the next 6-12 > months to continue the work we started in Berlin and bring in more people > than we could host due to funding/capacity. > > Best, > > Dario > on behalf of the organizers > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - 415 480 4577 - http://scottmacleod.com - Please donate to tax-exempt 501 (c) (3) - World University and School - via PayPal, or credit card, here - - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - or send checks to - PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 - World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
