Celtic Knot Conference 2019/Submissions/Working with the International Year of Indigenous Languages
This is an open submission for the Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference 2021. |
- Submission no.
- Title of the submission
- Working with the international Year of indigenous Languages
- Type of submission (Lightning talk, panel, tutorial/workshop, Presentation)
- Presentation/tutorial
- Author of the submission
John Cummings, Navino Evans, Sean Mcbirnie, Ana Brandusescu
- Language of presentation
English
- E-mail address
mrjohncummings@gmail.com
- Username
- John Cummings
- Country of origin
UK
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
UNESCO
- Personal homepage or blog
- Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal)
The United Nations has designated 2019 is the International Year of Indigenous Languages to “raise awareness of Indigenous Languages to appreciate the important contribution they make to our world's rich cultural diversity”.
The IYIL is led by UNESCO where I am Wikimedian in Residence and has a broad range of partner organisations who are experts in different aspects of languages
We are working with the partners to understand their goals and the value of sharing their knowledge on Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects.
Our first project is to work with the experts to understand the databases available which map languages and to import them into Wikidata and to document issues and solutions we faced while importing them and potential new projects which can be done based on the work we have achieved.
- What will attendees take away from this session?
- The state of mapping languages on Wikidata, strategies that worked, things that didn’t.
- Potential new projects which can be done based on the work we have achieved mapping languages.
- Strategies for working across many partners at once on a project
- Theme of session
Language data
- Will you attend Celtic Knot if your submission is not accepted?
Yes, probably
- Slides or further information (optional)
- Slides
Coming soon
- Special requests
- Is this Submission a Draft or Final?
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