Grants:TPS/Pigsonthewing/PIDapalooza 2018/Report

Event name

Most of the attendees, outside Girona Cathedral

PIDapalooza 2018

Participant connections

• Approx. 30 people attended my presentation on PIDs in Wikidata. Several took up the invitation to discuss the subject with me during the remainder of the event
  • Mentioned on Henry Rzepa's blog post
  • Mentioned on on Twitter ("Super useful tour of WikiData from @pigsonthewing. Looking at how we can add wikidata external ID property values to http://org-id.guide meta-data") by Tim Davies of OpenData Co-op
• Discussion with Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority delegate about supporting development of Wikimedia content and movement in that country and in its Kinyarwanda language; subsequently introduced by email to Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities, WMF with a view to pursing that end [discussion ongoing].
• Discussion with a publisher about a potential Wikipedia Library donation~
• Discussions with two organisations about possible Wikimedian in Residence placements~
• Met Sarala Wimalaratne of European Bioinformatics Institute' identifiers.org project, and had long follow-up discussion about Wikidata's use of their IDs; possible cross-project collaboration; offer assistance in editing Wikidata. Also resulted in data donation in Mix'n'Match catalogue 1035
• Met Laura Cox of Ringgold to offer assistance in editing Wikidata and solicit possible data donation [ongoing]
• Met Joachim Neubert of ZBW Labs in Hamburg and discussed a possible data donation and donation of media to Commons; identified potential new Wikidata PID property [ongoing]
• Met Hideaki Takeda from CiNii in Japan; offered assistance in editing Wikidata and explained Wikidata's use of their various types of identifiers; provided details subsequently by email
• Met two colleagues from the Australian Access Federation, resulting an in invitation to speak about Wikidata at a science conference~ in Australia when I visit later this year.
• Worked with a number of attendees on documentation of PIDs in Wikidata; subsequently started discussions on Wikidata and its mailing list [ongoing]
• Worked with another delegate to rekindle 'identifiers.org prefix' (P4793) PID property on Wikidata

~ Details withheld for obvious reasons of confidentiality

Outcome

As above, plus:

• Identified issues with DOI formatter URLs on Wikidata
  • raised on Wikidata
  • Subsequently fixed once consensus established
• Wikidata items created
  • Q47486848- PIDapalooza
  • Q47486856 - PIDapalooza 2016
  • Q47486859 - PIDapalooza 2018
  • Q47486939 - Palau de Congressos de Girona
• Identified issue with Scholia pages for publishers not being easily findable
  • Subsequently resolved
• I took ~800 photographs, which are in the process of being added to Wikimedia Commons
  • Example: Commons:Category:Conjunt d'habitatges plurifamiliars de la Caixa de Pensions
• I made several improvements to OpenStreetMap, in the vicinity of the hotel/ conference venue

Finances

Figures in GBP.

• Ground travel, UK: 26.90
• Ground travel, Spain: 37.01
• Accommodation: 252.23
• Subsistence: 92
  • Two days standard rate less 50% as breakfast/lunch provided = USD 71.25
  • One day standard rate less 20% as breakfast provided = USD 57

(air travel was covered by the event hosts)

Total: 408.14

Amount left over

n/a

Anything else

This was my first Travel and Participation Support grant. I am grateful to my endorsers for their kind words, and to the WMF grants team for their support, but very sad to see the scheme ending, which I believe is to the detriment of the movement.