Presentation about the creation of a German handbook on Wikidata and authority files. Accepted at OpenSym (WikiSym) conference 2014 (August 28th). More about the book at http://hshdb.github.io/normdaten-in-wikidata/

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Collaborative Creation of a
Wikidata handbook
Jakob Vo
Verbunzentrale des GBV (VZG) Hochschule Hannover
OpenSym (WikiSym), Berlin, 2014-08-28

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Normdaten in Wikidata
Authority

3. les in Wikidata
ISBN 978-1-291-85658-3
68 pages
Available as HTML, ePUB, PDF
print on demand
http://hshdb.github.io/
normdaten-in-wikidata/

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Topic: Authority

5. les in Wikidata
I Wikidata
I Great wiki database that anyone can edit
I See tomorrow's Wikidata talk for details!
I Authority

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I Also known as knowledge organization systems (SKOS)
I Many authority properties identi

7. ers in Wikidata, e.g.:
I Dewey Decimal Classi

8. cation: P1036
I ORCID author identi

9. er: P496
I IMDb movie ID: P345
I . . .

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Outline of the book
I Introduction (Wikidata, authority

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I Basic Wikidata concepts (items, properties, statements)
I Authority

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I How to search, edit, con

13. gure, reuse Wikidata
I Glossary, FAQ, Bibliography
general Wikidata handbook

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Project Background
I Conducted by 9 students and me
I 6th semester Bachelor of Information Management
I Hannover University of Applied Sciences
I March { June 2014 (13 meetings a 5 hours)
book sprint by non-experts

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Project management
I Face-to-face meetings discussion (rarely mail)
I Trello for organizing
I intuitive interfaces
I task lists appointments
I less is more!
I Blackboard and paper cards
I Feedback by continuous builds

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Collaborative Writing
I Pen
ip
I Simple visual web editor
I Markdown syntax with highlighting
I Document stored as git repository ($ local, GitHub. . . )

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Continuous builds
I Pandoc for document conversion
(Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, ODT, DOCX, ePUB. . . )
edit (Pen
ip/git) ! build (Pandoc) ! deploy (HTML/PDF)
I Not fully supported by current tools
I Custom pre/post-processing required for specialized content
I Layout templating requires skills in LaTeX HTM/CSS/JS

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Revision Proofreading
I GitHub issues or Trello cards (not used)
I Pen
ip issues (rarely used)
I Annotator (great tool, but technical problems)
printed copies are still important

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Shortcomings
I Non-experts need time to get familiar with the topic
I better mix of experts and newbies
I Great tools (Trello, Pen
ip, git, Pandoc, Annotator)
but dicult integration stability
I report bugs feature requests
I Missing connection Trello $ Document (in git)
I workarounds may exist
I Moving around rearranging content poorly supported
(as envisioned with Hypertext by Ted Nelson)
I open research topic in collaborative writing

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Lessons learned
I Creation of a handbook is possible with untrained students
I Cross-media publishing (PDF, HTML, ePUB. . . ) is possible
I Required tools
I Project management (e.g. with Trello)
I Collaborative Writing platform (e.g. Pen
ip)
I Document conversion (Pandoc + custom scripts)
I Proofreading feedback (e.g. Annotator)
I But tools are just tools, people matter most

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References
book Vo, Jakob et al. (2014). Normdaten in Wikidata.
ISBN 978-1-291-85658-3
urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-4381
paper Vo, Jakob (2014). Collaborative creation of a
Wikidata handbook.
sources at GitHub (book, paper slides)
http://hshdb.github.io/normdaten-in-wikidata/
https://github.com/jakobib/opensym2014