- . Brand new institute that is under the humanities institute, and they are also moving the Digital Studies certificate for under grads and grands under the umbrella of DH
- Albert
- The ADH just started formally this semester so they are still trying to figure out how to deploy some of the conversations that the task force are having in some of the programs that they have. They would be a great audience, for workshops, or even just doing lightning presentations on linked data. Good way of showcasing what we are doing
- In his experience, all students and faculty he is working with is to get the transcriptions done right, so that then they can pull data from those transcriptions. The most they work with structured data is to create social network analysis or map visualizations, so there are a lot of CSVs that they end up putting on a data repository, but he does not have the expertise to transform that yet.
- There is one faculty he is aware that have thought about linked data, but most of the students are not thinking or know much about it
- There is also the issue with privacy. Most of the students are working with individuals that are still alive. There are privacy concerns. Also ethical concerns. Project of mapping communities to the collections, but if they were published in a platform like wikidata, then they would be exposing them to the authorities. But for the historical data, it is definitely something he is interested in exploring.
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30min | Housekeeping: ideas for next steps, plans for next meeting, updates/announcements | All | - We are all trying to find a balance. There is no capacity for any of us to became the linked data reference on campus, 1) because we are still learning also, 2) because we are doing many of this projects on the side, on top of our other responsibilities, and if we have to spend the little time we have for linked data answering reference questions, then we will have not time to work on the projects
- We could
- What type of workshop we should think about? How should it be scoped? Is it a general intro to linked data? Or just wikidata
- Probably we don't want to do a general linked data one. Start small with an edit-a-thon for campus cultural heritage staff (UT Libs, Briscoe, HRC, Blanton, etc...) and then follow up with some targeted presentation
- Edith-a-thon is a great idea. We can come up with a structured project and walk people through how to do the edits. There are also models that we can follow (e.g. Harvard).
- Opportunity for us to share our projects and also invite people to contribute
- Practical aspect of having projects ready to go when we have to deal with working from home again
- It would also be useful to have a follow up with another workshop about tools. Something that demonstrates why we want to put our stuff on wikidata. Showing the value
- Also showing how to use openrefine together with Wikidata. How to contribute through open refine, how to retrieve things from wikidata, etc...
- Summer seems like a good timing to attempt this.
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5min | Review short term goals | All | - Draft on wiki
- "Work to build institutional support needed to integrate linked data technologies into routine metadata workflows" goal might need some fleshed out. Would be good to have more clear deliverable
- On the other hand, these are higher level goals. Is it too high level to be useful?
- Some of them could be broken down in "how tos", is that somethind we want to work on? What level of structure do we want to have?
- Maybe given our bandwidth, we could keep these goals more on the loose side and see how far we go
- We have a good momentum, with our proposal for TDL, and then we can also start thinking about edith-a-tons and workshops for the fall
- Next meeting
- Revisit short term goals and this discussion
- Review suggestions and ideas from Alyssa and Albert
- Continue looking at a potential workshop or edit-a-thon
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