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Call details

 * Date: 2023-05-02
 * Topic: Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects
 * Presenters: Fudie Zhao, University of Oxford
 * Link to original agenda with link to recording:

Presentation material
A systematic review of Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects https://academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/llc/fqac083/6964525

Questions

 * Question to ask audience:
 * How can we better collaborate? Feedback from GLAMs are always welcome!
 * Illinois State University: Is looking to hire a digital humanities librarian. Scholarly Communications librarian there did a survey and discovered that technology support is something their university community wanted the library to be more active in, so that’s one area the library can work to assist them with.
 * At Oxford, several institutes exist related to digital humanities. Now have a digital humanities degree. Libraries are quite active in organizing events related to DH.
 * Q: Curious to know more about pedagogical use of Wikidata.
 * A: Not a common use in terms of what projects report, so that’s why she noted the one archaeological one. Teachers had the students curate entities on Wikidata in order to generate and visualize linked data sets.
 * She has also created a 3 week-mini course.
 * Some problems in some properties (e.g., "citizenship" in the historical context). But it is a great way to teach students with little background in data to understand how it all works.
 * Comments about other DH projects:
 * There have been a number of presentations in the Affinity Group which were DH projects (like the Scottish witches https://wikimedia.org.uk/2018/03/data-on-the-history-of-scottish-witch-trials-added-to-wikidata/) - seems like Wikidata is more a tool to enable relationships not available in other ways
 * For Wikidata pedagogy you might also be interested in Stacy Allison-Cassin and Cora Coady, Adam Cavanaugh, and Devin Frede's talk on Wikidata in the classroom. Link to agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Tl0ox1wh4T9dXagcidt9EspR8am29n9DamGggxczF0/
 * Q: From your activities, have you proposed some sort of model/properties that could be better used? Asian materials, particularly rare historical sources, are unique in their needs.
 * A: This is what we’re often facing as historians. Can you see what projects have already exported/used Wikidata in the area? Each researcher has own analytical framework/historical sources. One place in which an unified model can be developed is when researchers curate their metadata (such as a bibliography). As for primary sources and analytical framework, found it is difficult to establish a general model for everyone in the community to use.