2020-10-28

Show and tell for those who have wikidata projects

Architecture

• KPM, Alyssa Anderson, mostly tell

• As we work on putting info from finding aids into wikidata, does this inform how we create finding aids?

• How to handle irregularities like entity name changes? (Question from Nicole)

  • When to create new wikidata entry? 

  • Superseded/Preceded-by notation?

  • DC relation?

• Need for citations beyond finding aids as required authority for Wikipedia publication

  • Organized pushback against this status of finding aid citations?

  • Aren’t collection decisions and research effort in finding aids/archival collections considered authoritative?

  • MPLP complicating this, at odds with need for certainty, how to clarify assumption-based assertions.

Texas State

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_PCC_Wikidata_Pilot/Texas_State_University_Libraries 

  • Props to Mary on this example

  • Looking at other examples is helpful

  • HRC has one, too

  • Quick Statements(?) and challenges with those

• Nicole also has oral history project/s

  • Finds she is curating ~4 pages, to link to

  • Does winning one award warrant creating another page? Where to draw the line?

• SIDENOTE: TDL webinar on oral history tomorrow https://www.tdl.org/tdl-events/toha-webinar-series/

• Nicole and Mary willing to show and tell batch editing

Michael

• Wikidata-data-processor.py demo

  • Running sparql query on https://query.wikidata.org/sparql, adds records to the neo4J database

  • Pulls in info about particular buildings

  • Thinking about consumption/use of wikidata

    • Assessing existing available data, to inform local projects/decisions, identify existing data, gaps that we could help fill

  • Exploring options for automating data collection/processing/publication to wikidata