# Wikidata Workshop - Practical part, UM professors - Maastricht University - 15 October 2024

This video explains the basics of Wikidata (What it is, and how it works, both technically and socially) and shows why Wikidata is relevant for research, science and cultural heritage.

This video guides workshop particpants in making their first practical steps in working with Wikidata. The goals of this video tutorial are

Get familiar with basic data editing via the Wikidata interface

Understand Wikidata data models and structures related to professors (of Maastricht University)

Extend existing Wikidata items about UM professors, based on information in public sources.

If time allows: Create new Wikidata items about UM professors

This video

is part of the workshop Navigating the World of Wikidata for Research, Science, and Cultural Heritage at Maastricht University on 15 October 2024.

is a recording of the tutorial File:Wikidata Workshop - Practical part, UM professors - Maastricht University - 15 October 2024.pdf

has a separate subtitles (closed captions) file : TimedText:Wikidata Workshop - Practical part, UM professors - Maastricht University - 15 October 2024.webm.en.srt

The video for the theoretical part of this workshop (about the basics of Wikidata) is available here.

Additional links, workshop materials and recordings

All workshop materials can be downloaded from Zenodo:

https://zenodo.org/records/13837957 - for the slidedecks(.pptx and .pdf) and the handout for participants (.docx and .pdf)

https://zenodo.org/records/13984149 - for the subtitled…

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 51 min
- By: Olaf Janssen
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Workshop_-_Practical_part,_UM_professors_-_Maastricht_University_-_15_October_2024.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Olaf Janssen
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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