Implications of New TARO – need to update links for finding aids that Architecture has contributed to external projects (e.g. wikidata)
Buildings of Texas (KPM)
Back in July, Josh Conrad presented on the work he's done with Buildings of Texas Collection
Contribution to wikidata items pointing out to the collection
Josh created a wikidata item for the collection, so that the link to the FA was only in one page, vs. having it in many items (knowing that FAs URLs were going to change, they did not wanted to have an outdated FA link on many wikidata items)
Have not yet decided what they are going to do with the wikidata item for the Collection. Right now it is barebones, so still deciding if that is the right approach, and if so, what the collection application profile should be
Archives at for AAA (ST)
Alysha did a pilot project to explore the process of creating wikidata items for AAA collection creators
Goals: understand how the info on FAs map to Wikidata properties
Small sample of 20 creators
Exploring of core properties for the type of entities that AAA was going to create (architects and architect firms)
TARO old URLs will be redirecting to the new URL between October 27 to the end of 2022. Interested in addressing the update of the old URLs everywhere they have been used for reference
Use this opportunity to learn more about batch editing → Used quick statements guidance and SPARQL queries that other folks on the group had presented on earlier in the year.
Workflow:
SPARQL query to retrieve all items with the property "Archives at" = AAA, and exported the data as a table
Openrefine to associate the new URLs to the wikidata items
Quick statements to update the data in wikidata
SUCCESS! but also...
Failure:
Using Wikidata query service to return results for all items that have "legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utaaa" as a reference URL
Returning results from query that are needed to batch edit
Hoped that they would be able to return everything with a legacy AAA TARO URL no matter where in the graph the URL is, but that was not possible
Goal – getting not just reference URLs added by them, but reference URLs added by others using the TARO AAA FAs
They found a sample query on wikidata query service documentation that they thought would address they needs, but even that sample was timing out. They were able to make it work by limiting the number of results
The have customized the query to the legacy TARO URL prefix, but couldn't make it work, even when limiting the results
What are people's thoughts on creating wikidata items for the collections?
Paloma – It depends how it fits within your workflows. One of the reason for institutions to create items in wikidata is to be able to assign Persistent identifiers with little overhead work. Is there any chance that TARO would eventually provide URIs for the finding aids eventually? Would the Wikidata URIs for the collections be used for anything else than reference on the wikidata items for the creators? Would you be creating wikidata items for all your collections, or just the ones you will use as reference of another wikidata statement?
Mandy – Exploring new workflows for vocabulary management for the DAMs project, and using wikidata for local authorities is being considered