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Dear colleagues, Please join us for the next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. *Where*: Zoom (Registration link <https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcuChrz0pHNGU6VOdDk6MsnxuWtGL0cRN> ) *When*: 30 June 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20220630T150000&p1=179&p2=64&p3=75&p4=224&p5=136&p6=tz_cest> ) The German National Library has used Wikibase to transform the authority control regulations of the German Integrated Authority File (GND) into machine-readable structured data, encouraging cooperation and openness in digital transformation. Work continues to develop a "second home" for the GND in Wikibase. Featuring speaker Barbara Fischer, Liaison Counsel at the German National Library’s Agency for Standardization (DNB). Fischer is head of the DFG-research project GND for Cultural data <https://www.dnb.de/EN/Professionell/ProjekteKooperationen/Projekte/GND4C/gnd4c.html> and the communication manager for *GND meets Wikibase*. On behalf of the DNB, Fischer initiated the WikiLibrary Manifesto <https://www.wikimedia.de/projects/wikilibrary-manifest/>. Fischer works to increase the quality of metadata through Authority Control to foster retrieval and linked data. -- Timothy Ryan Mendenhall (he/him/his) Metadata Librarian Columbia University Libraries Original and Special Materials Cataloging 102 Butler Library 535 West 114th Street New York, NY 10027 [log in to unmask] (212) 851-2452 ######################################################################## to manage your DLF-ANNOUNCE subscription, visit https://www.diglib.org/announce