[Heb-NACO] Wikidata training

[Gabriel Angulo]

I would be interested in joing the Judaica group. How do I sign up?

On Thursday, September 10, 2020, Neil Manel Frau-Cortes via Heb-naco <
heb-naco at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Following our conversation at the AJL conference, I wanted to touch base
> regarding an initiative.
>
> As you know UMD has just started several projects for Special Collections
> that use Wikidata as the authority management platform. In the last few
> months we have been training a small group of our catalogers, briefly
> reviewed their progress, and involved them in the projects. The projects
> are also part of the PCC WIkidata pilot program.
>
> At this point there are a few more UMD people that have manifested
> interest in going through the same training, which is essentially a 90
> minutes session taught by Sarah Hovde and myself. We are pondering
> expanding this to other institutions. I wanted to check with the Hebraica
> cataloger community and see if enough people would be interested either in
> joining our small UMD cohort or organizing a separate, Judaica specific
> group. Please share your thoughts on this.
>
> A quick additional note regarding the RAS cataloging committee: we are
> closing down on membership. At this point we are still missing one member
> and we hope to ultimate details in a few weeks. Once everything is settled,
> we are considering having a Winter zoom meeting in addition to the annual.
> We'll keep you posted.
>
> Looking forward to the New Year, which we hope to be much better!
>
> Kol tuv, Shannah Tovah.
>
> --
>
> *Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D. *(he, him, his)
>
> *Senior Catalog Librarian*
>
> *Supervisor for Non-Roman and Special Collections Cataloging*
>
>
> University of Maryland
>
> 2200 McKeldin Library
>
> College Park, MD 20742
>
> Phone (301) 405-9337
>
> nfrau at umd.edu
>
> ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1881-1405
>
>
>
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