{"id":240,"date":"2016-06-10T13:18:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T13:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/?p=240"},"modified":"2016-06-11T13:23:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T13:23:45","slug":"coming-soon-wikidata-wikisource-showcase-for-repo-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/coming-soon-wikidata-wikisource-showcase-for-repo-fringe\/","title":{"rendered":"COMING SOON: Wikidata &amp; Wikisource Showcase for Repo-Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"solSDDiv\" class=\"fl w-660\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"poem-detail\">\n<div id=\"solSiirMetinDV\">\n<div class=\"KonaBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_241\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/Wikisource-logo.svg_.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-241\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-241\" class=\"size-full wp-image-241\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/Wikisource-logo.svg_.png\" alt=\"Wikisource logo\" width=\"256\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikisource logo<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_242\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/1024px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg_.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-242\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-242\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/1024px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg_-300x212.png\" alt=\"Wikidata logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/1024px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg_-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/1024px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg_-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/1024px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg_.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikidata logo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/rfringe16.blogs.edina.ac.uk\/programme\/\" target=\"_blank\">Repo-Fringe 2016<\/a>, myself and <a href=\"http:\/\/histropedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Histropedia&#8217;s<\/a> Navino Evans will be co-presenting a showcase of two of Wikipedia&#8217;s sister projects: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Wikisource<\/a>, the free content library, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Wikidata:Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Wikidata<\/a>, the structured data knowledge base. With both projects, it is not about what they hold in their repositories so much as what that knowledge means to the user able to access it; be it the experience of being able to commune with the past through Wikisource for those authentic &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/95\/CILIP_Update_November_2015_Poulter_article_pp42-43.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">shiver-inducing&#8217; moments of digital contact with library &amp; archival materials <\/a>or being able to manipulate &amp; visualise structured data through Wikidata, actually querying &amp; utilising information on Wikipedia, as never before in myriad ways. The possibilities for both projects are endless and highlight the importance of curating &amp; safeguarding repositories of open knowledge such as these.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/falseeconomy.org.uk\/blog\/save-oxfordshire-libraries-speech-philip-pullman\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Pullman &#8211; Leave the libraries alone. You don\u2019t understand their value.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2013\/jul\/12\/library-campaigners-1000-closures-2016\" target=\"_blank\">Library campaigners predict 1,000 closures by 2016 &#8211; The Guardian 12 July 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2013\/oct\/15\/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming &#8211; The Guardian 15 October 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital.hss.ed.ac.uk\/digital-day-of-ideas\/2016-2\/lh_video\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Digital Day of Ideas 2016: Lorna Hughes, \u201cContent, Co-Curation and Innovation\u201d (video)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/media.ed.ac.uk\/media\/OER16+afternoon+parallel+from+Pentland+West+%28Hacking%29\/1_6c495ags\" target=\"_blank\">Open education on Wikipedia\u2019s sister projects (Video &#8211; from 20 minute mark) <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hence our showcase event, as part of Repository Fringe 2016 on 2nd August at the John McIntyre Conference Centre in Edinburgh, will focus on this and provide practical demonstrations of how to engage with the past, present &amp; future with these two projects.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the English teacher part of me has opted for a title which attempts to sum this up:<\/p>\n<div class=\"KonaBody\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"KonaBody\"><em><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s not what you do. It&#8217;s what it does to you.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p><strong>Wikidata and Wikisource Showcase &#8211; 2nd August 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"KonaBody\"><strong>Engaging with the past, present &amp; future with Wikipedia&#8217;s sister projects.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"KonaBody\">\n<p>This is a nod to Simon Armitage&#8217;s poem, <em>&#8216;It ain&#8217;t what you do, it&#8217;s what it does to you<\/em>&#8216;, a hymn of praise to the experiential.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It ain&#8217;t what you do, it&#8217;s what it does to you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have not bummed across America<br \/>\nwith only a dollar to spare, one pair<br \/>\nof busted Levi&#8217;s and a bowie knife.<br \/>\nI have lived with thieves in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>I have not padded through the Taj Mahal,<br \/>\nbarefoot, listening to the space between<br \/>\neach footfall picking up and putting down<br \/>\nits print against the marble floor. But I<\/p>\n<p>skimmed flat stones across Black Moss on a day<br \/>\nso still I could hear each set of ripples<br \/>\nas they crossed. I felt each stone&#8217;s inertia<br \/>\nspend itself against the water; then sink.<\/p>\n<p>I have not toyed with a parachute cord<br \/>\nwhile perched on the lip of a light-aircraft;<br \/>\nbut I held the wobbly head of a boy<br \/>\nat the day centre, and stroked his fat hands.<\/p>\n<p>And I guess that the tightness in the throat<br \/>\nand the tiny cascading sensation<br \/>\nsomewhere inside us are both part of that<br \/>\nsense of something else. That feeling, I mean.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"poet\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/simon-armitage\/poems\/\">Simon Armitage<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"poet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"poet\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"poet\"><strong>In addition, I am reminded of another poem on the power of the experiential:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"poet\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"poet\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"poet\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8qqVRBZO5gc\" target=\"_blank\">High Flight<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"poet\">\n<p>The famous aviation poem written in 1941 by 19-year-old Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee Jr, three months before he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,<br \/>\nAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;<br \/>\nSunward I&#8217;ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth<br \/>\nOf sun-split clouds, &#8211;and done a hundred things<br \/>\nYou have not dreamed of &#8211;Wheeled and soared and swung<br \/>\nHigh in the sunlit silence. Hov&#8217;ring there<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung<br \/>\nMy eager craft through footless halls of air&#8230;<br \/>\nUp, up the long, delirious, burning blue<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace<br \/>\nWhere never lark or even eagle flew &#8212;<br \/>\nAnd, while with silent lifting mind I&#8217;ve trod<br \/>\nThe high untrespassed sanctity of space,<br \/>\nPut out my hand, and touched the face of God.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Repo-Fringe 2016, myself and Histropedia&#8217;s Navino Evans will be co-presenting a showcase of two of Wikipedia&#8217;s sister projects: Wikisource, the free content library, and Wikidata, the structured data knowledge base. 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