User:Clifford Anderson/sandbox/grant
Project summary
- Project Name
- WikiCite for Librarians: A Series of Video Tutorials
- Start/End dates
- November 2020 to May 2021
- Amount requested (and the currency you wish to receive it in)
- $5,000 USD
- Amount requested (in US$ equivalent)
- $5,000 USD
The people
- Contact person name/Wikimedia username
- Clifford Anderson/Clifford_Anderson
- Contact person e-mail address
- clifford.anderson
vanderbilt.edu
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- Organisation (optional)
- Vanderbilt University
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- Project participants
- Who is working on this project. For each member of the team, please describe any project-related skills, experience, or other background you have that might help contribute to making this idea a success.
- Clifford Anderson, program management
- Steve Baskauf, video production
- Greg Weldy, curriculum design
- Andrew Wesolek, marketing and promotion
The project
Description
Describe the project or event.
Librarians at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries of Vanderbilt University have embarked on a collaborative project to bring metadata about faculty and their works into Wikidata. Through this WikiProject, known as VandyCite, we have learned a number of practical lessons about how to effectively train beginners to work in the Wikidata environment and to learn how to scope the parameters of a project to locate and move data into Wikidata. We will share what we have learned by building a set of video-based training materials that will make it easier for others to carry out similar projects in the future.
(not sure if or where VanderBot fits in. Maybe nowhere, although I mention capacity building in the next section.)
Motivation
Why is this project needed? What will it solve or improve?
By documenting what we have learned from our experience, we will make it easier for librarians in the future to get similar projects up and running faster and more easily. Building capacity in this area will prepare knowledgeable Wikidata users who will be better propared for developing and using more sophisticated tools that may automate or streamline the upload process in the future.
Activities
Tell us how you'll carry out your project. What will you and other organizers spend your time doing? What will you have done at the end of your project?
We will create a series of videos designed to help beginners get started editing in Wikidata, and install and use Wikidata tools. We will discuss how to deal with typical problems such as determining whether an item exists, dealing with duplicates, and identifying key properties associated with particular item types.
The modules will consist of several short videos that can be viewed while practicing. They will be freely available through an open platform (YouTube? OER?)...
Videos will have captions or dubbing – English, Spanish, Chinese, and other languages that we can muster up. Hire students to dub and check translations; we provide technical translations.
Proposed episodes for a "Wikidata for Libraries" tutorial series
1. Introduction: What is Wikidata? What is it used for? What’s in it for me and my institution?
Relax – the community is helpful
Linked data (RDF) -- click on anything in WD for more info/example entries
2. Setting up your account and home page
--Conflict of interest statement
--Babel language box (affects languages displayed to you)
--Join a WikiProject
3. Mechanics of editing/publishing/removing
4. See and create a typical record for a person [since the videos are short we could make some for other specialties like artworks]
5. See and create a typical journal article entry
6. Completeness [Everybody asks about it, but is there a good answer?]
--follow good examples from WD
7. Searching Wikidata for people and things, and checking for duplicates
--Wikibase statement searching from the search box
--Beginners can put duplicates on a list for other users to merge
8. Tips and tricks for finding Wikidata subjects and “fields of work”
--follow good examples from WD
--Use Wikipedia articles to find Wikidata QIDs
--Check items in drop-down menus (that have no description) to make sure that they’re subjects and not publications
--Keep a notebook of the WD properties that you find useful
9. Whoops! I created a duplicate record again – Fix with your first basic tool
--Install and use "merge.js"
10. Basic tool installation and use – Reasonator
11. Basic tool installation and use – "DuplicateReferences" gadget to copy citations
12. How to find more tools
Measures of success
What are criteria you will define success for your project, and how do you intend to measure for them? What are your targets for these measurements?
--(Are we offering some kind of live training? If so, we could gauge participation.)[Offer live training oriented to each video, as Steve does with his programming seminars now]
--We will monitor the use of the videos over time by tracking the video analytics (easily done on YouTube, not sure about other platforms.)
--Offer gift cards or prizes to testers who complete a certain number of edits.
Community
Who is your target audience for this project, and how will you ? How will you engage the community you’re aiming to serve at various points during your project?
Although our target will be librarians, the videos may be useful for professionals working in other venues like galleries or museums who would like to make metadata on collections or works freely available through Wikidata. As we generate the videos, we will generate feedback by engaging testers. Because the video segments will be short, they can easily be edited, moved, or replaced based on the feedback we recieve. After the video series is completed, we will... (have a workshop? advertise? ...)
The Budget
How you will use the funds you are requesting? List bullet points for each expense. (You can create a table or link to a separate (public) document if needed.
- Adobe Premiere Pro licenses
- Outsourcing (via Fiverr) of Video Intros and Outros
- Zoom Microphones
- Closed captioning in English (and other languages?)
COVID risk assessment (for in-person events)
If the project is for an in-person event, you must complete the WMF risk assessment tool and checklist, and provide a link to copies of these documents here. Events must not include any international travel, and must follow all applicable local health guidelines.
The WMF risk assessment will be published in early-September. You may submit a draft application for in-person events before then, and edit the proposal before the submission deadline (1 October).
Feedback
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Please provide links below to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions.
- Wikimedia and Libraries
- Wiki Clinical Trials
- VandyCite
- WALRUS participants
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Questions
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