About Thing 6
Purpose: One of the best ways of envisioning how linked data could improve our systems is by seeing examples of how other libraries have tried different ways of implementing it. Here’s an opportunity to review projects using Wikidata in their workflows.
Learning Outcomes: Users will explore a range of library projects within Wikidata and recognize the variety of potential projects that could use Wikidata as a tool.
Intended Audience: Beginner
Prerequites: Thing 4. Editing in Wikidata
Author: Violet Fox, Northwestern University
Expected Duration: 25-40 minutes
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Getting Started
If you haven’t done so yet, please complete Thing 4. Editing in Wikidata. Now you can explore the projects of libraries that participated in the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Wikidata pilot project, which ran from August 2020 - December 2021.
Activities
Skim the learning objectives for the PCC Wikidata Pilot:
Explore one particular project:
- Click on the "Participants" tab to see all the institutions that participated in the pilot.
- Click on "University of Nevada, Las Vegas".
- Review the various sprints that constituted the UNLV pilot (under the "sprints" section).
- Run at least two of the SPARQL queries that were made possible by the work done in the pilot project. Find the queries under the "SPARQL Queries" section, run a query by clicking on the words “Try it,” and then press the blue “execute query” button.
Explore another project of your own choosing:
- Return to the "Participants" tab.
- Click on an institution near you, or a random one, to learn more about what that institution’s pilot project consisted of. If details about the project are scarce, feel free to choose another one.
Reflection
Can you think of a collection in your library or a piece of local history that you’d like to bring more attention to? Could a Wikidata project help achieve those goals? Consider sharing your reflection responses in the Comments section at the bottom of the page.
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Three things come to mind right away: Our own local history project that is quite robust but limited to local use unless you stumble across our site; Our Local Music project that features local bands and musicians for whom we have streaming audio, and fairly robust bibliographic records; the last is our extensive collection of in-house produced streaming video of a very wide variety of programming: educational, story-telling, performance, lectures, UNESCO City of Literature panel presentations to name just a few. Wikidata would be a great vehicle to get this material out there.
Our Local Music Project. And, Yes a Wikidata project would help. Only a scant few of our local talent, the ones who've made a name for themselves outside the area are noted in Wikipedia and even then the details could be better developed.
Can you think of a collection in your library or a piece of local history that you’d like to bring more attention to? Could a Wikidata project help achieve those goals?