Communication. We've got a great lineup for you today, but first of all, I just wanted to welcome you, to thank you for attending today, and also to give you just a very short introduction and orientation to the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group, and to invite you

warmly to join us in our activities. And I'm just going to step through just a few slides, and then answer any questions that you have, and also invite my colleague, Simon Cobb,

who's also on the Wikimedia and Libraries Group, to add some additional commentary. So, what does our user group do? We've been around, I think, for about three years now. We are, as an affiliate, we are a thematic user group, so we are globally oriented

and focus on that intersection, that special, special intersection of Wikimedia projects

and libraries and librarianship. So, we're really here to offer guidance and encouragement for Wikimedians who want to engage with libraries and librarians, and also for libraries and librarians who want to engage with Wikimedia projects. As you probably know, there are many,

many entry points into the Wikimedia universe, and we are just here to listen to what people's particular interests are, and to encourage them in the right direction to give exemplars of really great projects going on, and to just be kind of like a place to listen

for emerging projects and to give encouragement. We're also a venue for the exchange of ideas around collaborations and opportunities for Wikimedia and libraries. We're certainly not the

only place that this happens. Of course, very many regional chapters also foster this type of activity. The Wikidata community is very welcoming to libraries. We've certainly seen a lot of activity with libraries and Wikipedia, but we just really see ourselves as kind of like

a switchboard for those things. We're not claiming any sort of ownership over this space. We just see ourselves as a place that people can come as a starting point and then launch themselves into whatever the right direction is. And then, finally, we really look to provide

representation. So, we strive to show up at Wikimedia conferences like this one, and also encourage the submission of sessions on Wikimedia projects at library conferences. So, again, kind of providing that dual role. Very many people on our steering committee are

Wikibrarians, people who are kind of at that intersection naturally of Wikimedia projects and also libraries. So, we just want to be able to kind of show up in both of our universes,

both in the Wikimedia spaces and in library spaces. There's a bunch of places that you can find us. Of course, we have a space on Meta, and you can sign up and join us in the usual manner. You can also, we have a Facebook group that we help to manage, the Wikimedia and

libraries user group on Facebook, and we have pretty lively discussions there as well. And then, we also have a Wikimedia mailing list. So, those are kind of the three places that you

can join us. We also have a Twitter account, and I will add that to the slides retrospectively so that you can have a link to that as well. So, we hope that you follow us on Twitter as well. So, our steering committee is global. I'm on the west coast of the United

States, and then we go all the way to Australia. So, this makes our steering committee meetings somewhat of a challenge, but we all pitch in and make it work. But one of the really

great things about our group and one of the things that I love and value is that is passionate about the same things. And you'll hear from some other steering committee

members during the session today. So, switching to today's session, we are going to be taking a look at Project VandySite, which is a project related to scholarly communications efforts

and looking at how a campus can support research information management and the promulgation of scholarly outputs at Vanderbilt University in the U.S. We're taking a look at metadata from the National Library

of Israel, Good Citizenship and Bad Metadata. What a title. I'm very excited that we're going to be welcoming Alice Kimbobo, who is the Wikimedia, excited to hear about her project.

And finally, we'll be hearing about Skolia from one of my fellows during committee members, Husey Mindin Turkey from Tunisia. So, that is kind of an overview of today's session.

For those of you who have been attending WikiCite sessions, we invite you to please help us take notes. And hopefully, I haven't actually dropped out. Let's see, am I still,

looks like I'm still streaming. And we encourage you to ask questions in Telegram or on the Etherpad. And I understand that also people can put questions into YouTube,

and we can see those as well. But either of those three ways of asking questions is just great. So, Telegram, you can put things on the Etherpad if you don't want to get signed up for Telegram

or find that to be a barrier to participation or on the YouTube channel. So, any of those things would be great. We have ample time for questions. So, I'm going to come back over here

and switch off the slides. And I'm going to invite Simon to come into the stream with me. Hello, Simon. Hi, everybody. So, thanks for that introduction to the session. There's a lot to look forward to

this afternoon or this morning, respectively, wherever anyone is in the world. Afternoon for me, but obviously, there's people… Only morning for me. Yeah. I think this is also a good opportunity to start a conversation about the user group

and what we're doing, what people might want us to focus on over the next year. Because I know that's come up a few times in our meetings and we've been talking about it again recently about trying to get some input from the group about the sort of activities and sort of focuses that we should have. I think this is a great opportunity to start that

conversation. So, if people have thoughts or ideas, please just deposit them in the Etherpad or send us messages through YouTube or Telegram so we can get that dialogue going. Even if we don't have the full conversation today, at least just get some ideas and then we can come back to them at a later date. Yeah. Just scanning right now Telegram for questions.

There was a… Yeah, WikiLibrary seems to be a general group. It's a very general group.

I would say that our activities are pretty wide and broad. We don't have a per… I mean, one of the advantages of our group, I think, is that we do kind of take that broad focus, but one of the disadvantages of our group is that we're not very narrowly focused because,

of course, librarian-ship takes many different forms. You have people who are working in special collections who may be interested in digitization or discovery of special resources. And they may be interested in putting resources on Wikimedia Commons, describing those resources

in Wikidata, making sure that those resources are described on Wikipedia. You may have metadata librarians who are very, very interested in Wikidata and the future of Wikibase as a platform.

You may have scholarly communication librarians who you'll be hearing from next who are really interested in what they can do to support research and the promulgation of research in a campus environment. You may have public librarians who are interested

in supporting information literacy and how editing Wikipedia can be a tool to support that. We've seen a lot of very varied interest within libraries. So, if I had one piece of advice for Wikimedians, it's to listen to your librarians and to know what their goals and

missions are and then think about what projects are ongoing that match those interests and those needs rather than pre-assuming advice for librarians would be similar to listen to what

Wikimedians are working on and not just assume that everybody's laboring away on Wikipedia. But if you're here, you probably already know that. You mentioned content donations to Commons there and I think over the next year there's going to

be some really interesting opportunities for working with structured data on Commons rather than having to do some work in Wikidata and after you upload your images to Commons, being able to do it all in Commons is potentially very powerful for tagging library collections and being able to query them all in that one place. I think that's an area where

we could focus on and perhaps see if we can find some early adopters to put some collections in and see what we can do with them. Of course, documentation is valuable, so if we did that we could maybe write a guide of how others can replicate that. I think that's something we get

a lot of requests for and that's documentation, how people should be doing things as a community. I think we struggle a bit there and I personally really enjoy doing things I don't like stopping doing to document them. I don't think you are alone. Let's see, there is a question on the etherpad, so I'm

running to the etherpad to see what that question is. See, we've got one about narrative locations, but I know I've looked about a narrative location in Wikidata when I've been

doing book imports, sorry, big bibliographic metadata imports for a collection of books. It's really quite a difficult property to use unless it's explicitly stated somewhere in the metadata you're working with, otherwise you're going to have to have familiarity with the text to be able to use that property. It's not something that you can just infer from

the subject that the narrative location is going to be a particular place. Yes, it's a similar property to sort of talking about the characters in a work as well.

It's perhaps going one level further than just a data import, it's doing some further curation. Very valuable if you can do it, but quite time consuming I think. Yeah. I'm not sure if I've answered that question, particularly if it's just thoughts on that.

Yeah, I think that representing things like, you know, that's the kind of thing that I think would be represented in a subject heading, and those types of things aren't even really necessarily

handled well or consistently within bibliographic cataloging. So, transferring that thinking thoughtfully about how to represent that in, I would think that looking to library models

and how those are represented in library models may be a good place to start and then think about transferring over. Certainly, since you're working on identifier models, you're going to have, rather than strings, you're going to have less of a chance for misspelling or misrepresenting

a place, the setting for a novel, for example. You can more specifically say, this novel is set in this place, and then be able to link to the Wikidata property, which is for that place, which is already set up, which is marvelous.

A little more challenging, I suppose, if you have truly fictional locations, you've got to set those up yourself. Let's see. Interested in the comment from Gavin Wilshaw, saying the University of Edinburgh would be

interested in experimenting with structured data on Commons. I know there's a Wikimedian in residence, you and me, through Edinburgh, so it might be quite easy to facilitate a project around that, if there's interest. Certainly interested in

advising or following that project. I'm happy to help if I can. Very good. You've got an instant response right there. I think it's quite an attractive new development on Commons for any sort of content, really,

not just images. It's very new, so I don't know exactly what we can really do with it, and obviously still in development as well. But having early adopters could even form the development at the moment, so there are a lot of opportunities, and I hope we can be involved in

that. Just have a look on the etherpad again. There are some other comments coming in. I know you can watch them in real time being typed. I know. It's quite tantalizing, isn't it, waiting for the end of a sentence?

Right, right, right. Well, at least it's not German, and you don't have to wait for the end of the sentence to see what the verb is. So the question about showcases where libraries use Wikidata to better display maps of keywords.

I'm wondering whether we can use Lexemes for that at all. It's not really an area that I've been that active in, but there are others on the call who might be able to comment on that. So Lexemes kind of seem like they'd be ideal for doing maps of keywords.

Just throwing that out there. I could be completely wrong, and do tell me if I am, but if there's anything in that to work with, then let's see. What else have we got? Who outside Wikidata has data on narrative locations, eras, etc.

Does OCLC have anything like that merrily? Yeah, I mean, there's quite a bit of that embedded in, so WorldCat is huge. If you're

looking for a specific type of metadata, we probably have it. I think that we have an experimental service called Fiction Finder, which was developed to, it's one of our

Ferber-based experiments within OCLC research. And if you look at Fiction Finder, specifically, I think that that service has a place to search by or to cluster things by

setting or place. After the session, I'll go look at that and add that to the Etherpad, because I'm not very good at managing this many tabs all at once. But I think if you have a look at Fiction Finder, you can see that kind of exemplified, and it's basically

pulling that data out of wherever it lives in the MARC record and kind of showcasing it. So, I mean, I think that there's MARC-based examples of that. In terms of Wikidata-based examples, I'm really not sure who's doing that. Is that anything that you've looked at

in your work with the National Library of Wales, kind of looking at settings in particular for books? No, no. I only worked with what was already in the metadata and then mainly focusing on author disambiguation, which is just massively time-consuming. So, no, I didn't get

onto that. But maybe look in Skolia, because I know the sort of visualizations of topics you can do in there. That might be a starting point for finding some data in Wikidata. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. All of these mentions of drinking in the comments is far,

far too early here. I've got coffee. That's about it. I think it's about time for our next presentation, isn't it? It is. We're chatting away here. Yeah. We'll just pull ourselves out of the stream and bring up our next speakers.

So, thank you guys so much for making us feel welcome here today, and we'll switch over to our next speakers. Thanks so much.