Author: Mita Williams
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All your Wikibase are belong to us
What if we built a federation of Wikibases that belong to all of us? What if someone already did?
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How to get through a Scholarly split
We are currently in a very particular period of time for Wikidata.
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How I use Zotero + OpenRefine + QuickStatements to create Scholia profiles from Wikidata
Let’s make scholarly profiles for our colleagues. Together.
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What if we used Ai as an excuse to provide structured open data in plain text to everyone?
Libraries can support people developing and using LLMs by providing an alternative to LLMs
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How I Use Zotero (and Why)
I use Zotero when I am doing research or scholarly writing but I also have a handful of other reasons why I use Zotero which I thought I’d share.
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Libraries can provide alternatives to Ai with queryable databases
I cannot ask my library catalogue to give me a list of Canadian Law Reviews and Journals we currently subscribe to but I *can* ask Wikidata which Canadian Law Review titles are open access..
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Using TRMNL to make digital signs with LibCal
Let’s use old amazon kindles to make meeting room signs at your local library and organize!
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The Bureau of Library Tourism
I just walked back from the lovely Cookie Bar in Ford City, Ontario, where I was one of the six “fun” speakers at the Bike Windsor Essex AGM. The theme was transportation and the format was pecha kucha: 20 slides that auto forward every 20 seconds. This is what I was supposed to have said.
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A Wikidata Query: Would you also like to have intervener added as a property?
I would like to add the property of ‘intervener’ to Wikidata but I cannot do this alone.