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* ([[User:Mtindia|Mtindia]] 23:29, 5 February 2006 (UTC)); This section is a place where I easily visualize the credibility of the members. This, contrasts, directly with invisible colleagues in other sections of Wiki (who wish to remain anonymous). Members in this section must be congratulated for their authority as they continue to contribute to the area of middleware and facilitate building better methods of knowledge organization. I, as a librarian, like to call this process as [http://akbani.blogspot.com information visualization].
* ([[User:Mtindia|Mtindia]] 23:29, 5 February 2006 (UTC)); This section is a place where I easily visualize the credibility of the members. This, contrasts, directly with invisible colleagues in other sections of Wiki (who wish to remain anonymous). Members in this section must be congratulated for their authority as they continue to contribute to the area of middleware and facilitate building better methods of knowledge organization. I, as a librarian, like to call this process as [http://akbani.blogspot.com information visualization].
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Revision as of 22:58, 27 April 2006

We librarians flatter ourselves that we know a thing or two about organizing information. It's time we stepped up and contributed to Wikipedia: not just to its content but to its structures and technologies. This project page is intended to provide a rallying point for these activities. --Helperzoom 06:20, 16 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Goals

  • Coordinate maintenance of library-related content
  • Develop and discuss proposals for improvements to Wikipedia based on library experience
  • Assist at the Wikipedia Reference Desk
  • Assist with categorization
  • See also the similar but much more developed project page on the German Wikipedia.

Current tasks

Writing New Articles

Develop articles on Wikipedia:Library and Information Science basic topics. See also content at LISWiki.com

Article Improvement Collaboration

  • Add articles here!

See Category:Library_and_information_science and its subcategories, as well as Category:Library stubs, for other articles to improve. Post them here if you will need help from others.

ISBN linking

  • ISBN linking. What should a typical ISBN page look like? (e.g. ISBN 0-12-345678-9). The current page knows about xISBN (see the bottom of the page), but doesn't know what to do with it. Should use of xISBN be expanded?
Some options:
  • convert each ISBN from xISBN into a link - easy to do, but could produce lots and lots of links to check
  • convert list of ISBNs from xISBN into a combined query to RedLightGreen etc. - have to work out the syntax for this, might fail for large sets (maybe just do the top 10? they are sorted in order of frequency in WorldCat, so the top few are the most common)
  • Also: how about making the standard ISBN link produce a latent OpenURL like this: <a name='isbn=0-120345678-9' rel='alternate' title='OpenURL'>? Users with suitable browser plugins could then bypass the Wikipedia ISBN page and be directed to their home library's link resolver. --Helperzoom 17:23, 26 May 2005 (UTC).[reply]
    • Note that work is still being done on a spec for latent OpenURL.--openly
  • In the meantime, articles citing books which need ISBNs are collected in the ISBN needed category.
  • Will there be any problems with Wikipedia ISBN linking when ISBNs are expanded to 13 digits?

Portal

Design and maintain a Portal for Library and information science or Finding information (the latter title might encourage more non-librarians to use and contribute). There are already Library Science Portals in the German [1] and French [2] Wikipedias -- can we get together to start and maintain one in English?

Introduction to Wikipedia Culture for Librarians

Under construction at /Introduction

Introduction to librarians for Wikipedians

Some Wikipedians who have identified themselves as librarians on Wikipedia have generously volunteered their practical expertise in the management and maintenance of information on Wikipedia. These tasks have included activities such as:

  1. Annotating articles with verifiable references
  2. Indexing of authoritative sources for articles
  3. Verifying the factuality of cited sources
  4. Creating navigational aids (such as links) for retrieval of encyclopedic information
  5. Organizing
  6. Managing
  7. Classifying
  8. Disseminating

We need a coherent statement of what we think we have to offer, based on what we do as librarians.

Members

Please sign up here and introduce yourself.

  • Helperzoom - digital librarian (my blog). So far all I've done is tinker; expanded the Z39.50 article; drafting article on OpenURL. --Helperzoom 06:20, 16 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neschek - I'm a final semester library school student and am moving to Ohio for a librarian job within the month. I got the job in Ohio in part because of a well-received talk I made last year on Wikipedia and wikis in general. I make a lot of minor edits to articles but have only started one non-library related article. -- — I. Neschek | talk 15:01, 18 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Bill Drew - Systems Librarian at SUNY Morrisville College Library, Morrisville, NY (20 years). I want to keep up with the newest technologies and thislooks like the place to do that. See my blog (BabyBoomerLibrarian).
  • Omassey - Rare books cataloguer in London, UK. Tinkerer and tidier by nature. Omassey 12:23, 2005 May 19 (UTC)
  • Chapman - Metadata librarian for a research library. Nothing completed yet.-- 16:21, 20 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Brassratgirl -- I'm graduating June 2005 with my MLIS from the University of Washington's iSchool, and have been more or less active in the Wikipedia since 2003. I've also done a couple of research projects on the WP for coursework and have been arguing the merits of the site during my time in library school. Hopefully, I'll be going to the Wikimania conference.
  • Jenny Blower -- Trainee librarian (I will finish my degree soon..) who loves to tinker about and fix spelling mistakes, add missing graphics, add ISBNs and add appropriate categories. Hoping to expand Category:Children's books.
  • Elizabeth McKenty aka lislemck -- Public librarian for 10 years. Previously a proofreader, factchecker, advertising copywriter, beauty magazine editor, um, cataloguer, bibliographer (3 books), and trainer. I am missing some, but I love to pull things apart, critique, edit. I have been called a perfectionist more than once. I have edited Wikipedia articles in the past, but not lately. Will see what I can do here. Visit my blog (Biblioblatherblog). Recently blogged for LITA at ALA annual (LITA Blog}
  • Joshua Lambert -- Academic librarian and contributor to Wikipedia and Wikibooks since early 2004. Not a lot of Wikipedia contributions lately but monitor many articles. Liblamb 18:59, 21 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • FeanorStar7 -- Cataloger at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC; I have edited several hundred articles on Wikipedia, of all kinds, chiefly biographical. I think Wikipedia is a great resource. Librarians can only make it better!
  • Jenelle Cleary -- Librarian - Parliamentary Library, Victoria, Australia. Love cleaning up wiki-mess and making things pretty. You can find out more at (Jenelle.net)
  • Her Pegship -- Librarian at a Northern California private school; previously I worked for other public libraries in the Central Valley and Sacramento areas. I'm big on wikitidying as well, and my pet projects are films based on books and stuff on The Da Vinci Code, about which I'm co-teaching a workshop in April. Cheers, Her Pegship 06:06, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Supporters of Librarians who contribute to Wikipedia

  • Ta bu shi da yu 03:59, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Jmabel | Talk 01:47, May 20, 2005 (UTC)
  • —thames 18:18, 23 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Chris 73 Talk 19:40, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
  • — Catherine\talk 01:09, 24 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • MarkSweep 06:32, 24 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Apwoolrich 19.28, 24 March, 2005 (UTC)
  • DanKeshet 02:35, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
  • sounds like an interesting and good project JesseW 04:19, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • --Alterego 21:51, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)
  • (Mtindia 23:29, 5 February 2006 (UTC)); This section is a place where I easily visualize the credibility of the members. This, contrasts, directly with invisible colleagues in other sections of Wiki (who wish to remain anonymous). Members in this section must be congratulated for their authority as they continue to contribute to the area of middleware and facilitate building better methods of knowledge organization. I, as a librarian, like to call this process as information visualization.[reply]
  • Tennessee Wood

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