Whose (Wiki)Data is it Anyway? Ethics & Consent in Cataloguing People, Places & Things
- Date
- February 12, 2025
- Time
- 12:00 PM EST - 4:00 PM EST
- Location
- Library Collaboratory
- Contact
- Victoria James / victoria.james@torontomu.ca
- Website
- https://calendar.library.torontomu.ca/event/3855376
Wikidata is one of the most open and widely available data tools. It powers Wikipedia and links together data from all over the internet, gathering it together in one searchable space. Can Wikidata be used in your work or research? What purpose does it serve? And how can you contribute to Wikidata? How should you contribute to it? Should you contribute to it at all?
Join us in discussion, to learn about linked data and how it can help to fill in blanks and gaps in marginalized subject areas, while getting a 101 crash course in using and creating Wikidata items. This workshop is framed within the context of ethically gathering data with and without consent, the power of language, terminology and authority files.
Bring a laptop and join the group or work on your own. Stay for the whole session or drop in when you can!
Presented as part of 2025 Love Data Week.