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This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue X, October 2024

Latvia report

Wikidata Workshop 2024: National Library of Latvia

Overview

From the 1 to 3 October, Alan Ang from Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikidata volunteer, Camillo Pellizzari user: Epìdosis (talk · contribs), were invited to run a three-day Wikidata workshop for 25 librarians from the National Library of Latvia.

You can read more about the workshop here. All the presentation material, which we think constitute a pretty comprehensive set of resources for the onboarding of librarians onto Wikidata, can be accessed via commons:Category:National Library of Latvia - Wikidata workshop 2024 presentations

Synthetic program

Day	Time	Theme	Slides and reference materials	Presenter(s)
October 1st	9:30-11:00	Introduction (general; to LOD; to Wikidata); use case sharing (Wikidata in libraries)	File:NLL2024- Introduction LOD, Wikidata & Use Cases.pdf	Alan Ang (WMDE)
	11:15-12:15	Basic editing + demo	File:NLL2024- Editing Wikidata.pdf	Alan Ang (WMDE)
	13:15-13:35	Data modelling	File:NLL2024 - Data modelling in Wikidata.pdf	Epìdosis + Alan Ang (WMDE)
	13:35-14:55	Babel and gadgets + demo + practice	File:NLL2024 - Advantages of an account in Wikidata.pdf	Epìdosis
	15:15-15:30	External IDs	File:NLL2024 - External IDs in Wikidata.pdf	Epìdosis
	15:30-16:30	Reconciliation I (Mix'n'match + demo + practice)	[Live use of Mix'n'match]	Epìdosis
October 2nd	9:30-9:35	Overview of day 1: LOD, editing, properties, reconciling catalogs	/	Alan Ang (WMDE)
	9:35-10:35	Reconciliation II (Mix'n'match + demo + practice)	[Live use of Mix'n'match, including live import of catalog 6497]	Epìdosis
	10:35-11:25	Bulk imports (QuickStatements + demo + practice)	File:NLL2024- Importing into Wikidata QuickStatements.pdf	Alan Ang (WMDE)
	11:40-12:20	Wikibase (introduction; use case sharing; Wikibase Cloud + practice)	File:NLL2024- Wikibase.pdf	Alan Ang (WMDE)
	13:20-14:55	Querying Wikidata I (introduction; Query Builder + demo; WDQS + demo)	File:NLL2024 - SPARQL queries in Wikidata.pdf	Epìdosis + Alan Ang (WMDE)
	15:10-16:30	Querying Wikidata II (Query Builder practice + WDQS practice)	[Live use of WDQS]; see Wikidata:WikiProject Latvia/NLL 2024/Queries	Epìdosis + Alan Ang (WMDE)
October 3rd	9:30-10:00	Overview of day 2	/	Alan Ang (WMDE)
	10:00-10:30	Accessing Wikidata's data	Wikidata:Data access	Alan Ang (WMDE)
	10:30-10:45	Using Wikidata to correct mistakes in authority files	File:NLL2024 - Wikidata for authority files.pdf (slides 1-23)	Epìdosis
	10:45-11:00	Use case sharing (NLCZ)	File:NLL2024 - NLCZ and Wikidata.pdf	Epìdosis + Alan Ang (WMDE)
	11:15-11:35	Use case sharing (SBN)	File:NLL2024 - SBN and Wikidata.pdf	Epìdosis
	11:35-12:15	VIAF and ISNI	File:NLL2024 - VIAF and ISNI in Wikidata.pdf	Epìdosis
	13:15-13:45	Data enrichment (from catalogs to Wikidata, from Wikidata to catalogs)	File:NLL2024 - Wikidata for authority files.pdf (slides 24-31)	Epìdosis + Alan Ang (WMDE)
	13:45-14:15	Wikidata's ontology and controlled vocabularies	File:NLL2024 - Ontology and controlled vocabularies in Wikidata.pdf	Epìdosis
	14:15-14:45	Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects (PetScan)	[Live use of PetScan]	Epìdosis
	15:00-16:15	Lexicographical data; reusing Wikidata's data; Wikimedia projects and WikiProjects on Wikidata; Wikimedia affiliates	File:NLL2024- Lexicographical data.pdf	Alan Ang (WMDE)
	16:15-16:30	Possible follow-ups	See below #Possible follow-ups	Epìdosis