FindingGLAMs/Minor grants/Wikidata, Librarians and Linked Open Data

This project has been approved a grant from WMSE.

This project will introduce Wikidata to Librarians in Accra in an all-day hands-on workshop at the University of Ghana Balm Library. Librarians will:

Learn how Wikidata triple statements are organized
- and use that knowledge to create/contribute bibliographic data to Wikidata
Learn to write basic SPARQL queries (examples will concern Library properties)
Learn how to use Scholia as a tool for visualizing WikiCite data

Item	Details	Unit Ghc	Quantity	Total Ghc
Venue space	Department of physics auditorium - University of Ghana	500	1	500
Projector	Rental of projector and screen	150	1	150
Internet routers	Surline internet router	499	1	499
Refreshment (Light Breakfast + Lunch)	For 25 expected total participants, 5 volunteers from Global Open Initiative, and 5 as contingent	60	35	2100
Water	500ml bottled water 35 people	N/A	N/A	75
T-Shirts	5 total customized printed T-Shirts for facilitators	40	5	200
Stickers	Wikidata', 'Linked Data' and 'GLAM' stickers to go round for all	2	50	100
Printing	Event posters (color), program outline, tutorial, etc	N/A	N/A	100
Transportation for items	To-and-fro transportation for purchase of items	60	2	120
Transportation for event facilitators	To-and-fro transportation (or fuel allowance) for event facilitators	60	5	300
Certificates	For participating	10	30	300
Miscellaneous		300	1	300
1 EUR = 6.26405 Ghc			Ghc	4744
Oanda Historical rates (7 December 2019)			EUR	757.338

Start a conversation about opportunities around Wikidata for librarians
Establish a relationship between the Wikimedia community in Ghana and library institutions that the attendees are affiliated to
Number of participants: 25, excluding 5 volunteers
Number of new editors: 25
Number of items created or improved: 25

I'm a longtime Wikimedian for more than 8 years since 2011, and have been a grantee to a number of projects where I facilitated events at a variety of cultural and educational institutions. For example, in 2017, I was the resource person on Wikidata at the second Africa Open data conference held at the Kofi Annan ICT Center in Accra, Ghana. I am a recent grantee to the Parliament of Ghana working group that added position held (P39) properties to items of all 275 members of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana at a series of editahtons held at the Madina Institute of Science and Technology. I am currently co-editor of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter and one of the co-leads of Art+Femiminsm. I live and work in Accra as an educator. —M@sssly^✉ 00:30, 7 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Masssly: Thank you for the application! We'll handle it shortly and let you know the outcome. --Alicia Fagerving (WMSE) (talk) 07:52, 9 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

We are very happy to grant funding for this project up to the requested amount of €758.

@Masssly: please reach out to us at alicia.fagervingwikimedia.se so that we can keep in touch about the practicalities and your needs as February nears. Thank you for the work you do! --Alicia Fagerving (WMSE) (talk) 12:28, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]