Wikipedia:Meetup/Canadian Music

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About this campaign

The “Music and Belonging: Music in Canada at 150 Wikipedia Project” is a multifaceted campaign which pairs the professional skills of librarians and archivists with academics, music historians, musicians, students and local music communities to increase the quality and amount of content about Canadian musicians in Wikipedia and Wikidata thereby increasing the accessibility to music culture for all Canadians and the wider online community. Please see the project webpage for detailed information and training and outreach materials.

The project is being funded through a Wikimedia Foundation Project Grant and the York University Canada 150 fund.

Dates & locations

Editing events will be held across Canada during the month of October, 2017. This is coordinated with the Canadian National Contribution month and Open Access week.

Thursday, October 19th

• Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland. Sign-up

• 55 York Blvd, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library, Hamilton, Ontario, L8N 4E4. Map, 11 am - 5 pm, Sign-up, Meet-up page.

• D.B. Weldon Library atrium, Western University, London, Ontario. Sign up.

• Eckhardt-Gramatté Music Library, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Sign-up

Tuesday, October 24th

• Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI. Sign-up

• Scott Library, York University, Toronto, Ontario. Sign-up

• Music Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. Sign-up

Friday, October 27th

• MacEwan University (in collaboration with the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. Sign-up
• J.N. Desmarais Library, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario. Sign-up, Meet-up page

Virtual participation

• Participants are also welcome to participate virtually. Sign-up

Articles and items to edit/create

• Murray Adaskin (needs citations)
• Frances_James_(soprano)
• Richard_Margison
• Ronnie_Hawkins
• Richard_Manuel
• Andrew_Ager
• Robert_Aitken_(composer)
• Violet_Archer
• Allison_Cameron_(composer)

Editing activities are organized through a dashboard. Please sign-up through the dashboard.

Resources for research

• Encyclopedia of Music in Canada

Sources for adding authority data

This sources are useful for finding identifiers that can be added to Wikidata and will populate the authority control area in Wikipedia articles, no matter the language.

• Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
• Musicbrainz music encyclopedia
• Discogs
• Soundexchange ISRC search
• Allmusic.com
• International Movie Database (IMDb)
• Library of Congress linked data service
• Library of Congress list of identifiers

Training materials

Many excellent introductory tutorials and other training materials exist. This section includes links to a few examples.

• Getting started with Wikipedia
• Try to ensure all participants have an account.

Music-specific materials

• In-person Workshop on Wikidata and music by Dan Scott was recorded and the video has been made available. Slides and text and have been posted.
• Online tutorial video on Wikidata and music by Dan Scott
• Editing Wikipedia for music biographies: introduction. Slides and notes from a workshop. by Stacy Allison-Cassin User:Smallison
• Editing Wikipedia for music biographies: infoboxes, categories and authorities. Slides and notes from an online tutorial. by Stacy Allison-Cassin User:Smallison
• Editing music biographies [1] User:Smallison

External links

• Project website
• Project grant page