Hi, everyone --

Mark your calendars for our upcoming event series on the Wikidata graph split project and SPARQL skills!

We will be kicking off our next Wikidata Affinity Group Series on June 3rd, where we will begin learning about the recent scholarly article graph split project from members of the Wikidata Search Team, Lydia Pintscher and Guillaume Lederrey.  Bonus fun: the LD4 Discovery Affinity Group will be joining the call!

On June 10th, guest speakers Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry will provide an update about Scholia and their ongoing work to navigate the changes with the Query Service.

Next, Mary Aycock and Sarah Kasten will lead two sessions on developing SPARQL skills and using federated queries, which will be a mix of discussion and hands-on work, on June 24th and July 8th.

All events will take place at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 5pm CET (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1748966400>).

Series Event Page
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/GraphSplit

Use this Zoom link to join our June 3rd session:
https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/91560597667?pwd=gSQJ2X4KHQ8fj5zJWTfg9d2vYfcOqj.1

Meeting ID: 915 6059 7667
Passcode: 120869

The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the LD4 Community and investigates how libraries can contribute to and better integrate library metadata with Wikidata to improve access to library resources on the web. The Affinity Group calls provide an informal space to share information and learn more about Wikidata.
Communication:
Ld4-wikidata Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata
#wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: https://ld4.slack.com/
Website: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group


On behalf of the Wikidata Affinity Group Co-Facilitators,

Susan Radovsky
Metadata Management Program Coordinator
Metadata Management and Project Strategy
Harvard Library