I didn't really have a presentation for my demonstration at the NDF, but the event team have asked for presentations, so here are the notes for my practice demonstration that I did within the library. The notes served as an advert to attract punters to the demo; as a conversation starter in the actual demo and as a set of bookmarks of the URLs I wanted to open.
Depending on what people are interested in, I'll be doing three things
*) Demonstrating basic editing, perhaps by creating a page from the requested articles at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Requested_articles
*) Discussing some of the quality control processes I've been involved with (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_pages_patrol)
*) Discussing how wikipedia handles authority control issues using redirects (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect ) and disambiguation (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation )
I'm also open to suggestions of other things to talk about.
Friday, 2 December 2011
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Metadata vocabularies LODLAM NZ cares about
At today's LODLAM NZ, in Wellington, I co-hosted a vocabulary schema / interoperability session. I kicked off the session with a list of the metadata schema we care about and counts of how many people in the room cared about it. Here are the results:
8 Library of Congress / NACO Name Authority List
7 Māori Subject Headings
6 Library of Congress Subject Headings
5 SONZ
5 Linnean
4 Getty Thesauri
3 Marsden Research Subject Codes / ANZRSC Codes
3 SCOT
3 Iwi Hapū List
2 Australian Pictorial Thesaurus
1 Powerhouse Object Names Thesaurus
0 MESH
This straw poll naturally only reflects on the participants who attended this particular session and counting was somewhat haphazard (people were still coming into the room), but is gives a sample of the scope.
I don't recall whether the heading was "Metadata we care about" or "Vocabularies we care about," but it was something very close to that.
8 Library of Congress / NACO Name Authority List
7 Māori Subject Headings
6 Library of Congress Subject Headings
5 SONZ
5 Linnean
4 Getty Thesauri
3 Marsden Research Subject Codes / ANZRSC Codes
3 SCOT
3 Iwi Hapū List
2 Australian Pictorial Thesaurus
1 Powerhouse Object Names Thesaurus
0 MESH
This straw poll naturally only reflects on the participants who attended this particular session and counting was somewhat haphazard (people were still coming into the room), but is gives a sample of the scope.
I don't recall whether the heading was "Metadata we care about" or "Vocabularies we care about," but it was something very close to that.
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