2021-03-24

Presentation: PCC Wikidata pilot project at TAMU

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Goals for getting involved

Project description - focus on authors and faculty advisors for dissertations from Mechanical Engineering 

What they have done so far

Consideration when drafting application profiles - what entities to create entries for? What properties to include? What properties should be core? Reviewed existing application profiles from Stanford and Guidelines for WIkiProject Books on recommended properties.

Properties of interest to Scholarly Communications: Year, Gender, Academic subject/disc, etc. 

Uploading metadata from their repository OakTrust to Wikidata

Screenshots of Wikidata schema in OpenRefine, Schema tab 

Example of Wikidata items batch created or enhanced via OpenRefine

Lessons Learned: plenty of existing metadata for use in automation; think it is ok to put embargoed titles on Wikidata; batch create items first before adding statements to link them

Next steps: test how this can work in practice; explore other tools provided by Wikidata Institute; design and carry our queries

Q/A - jaho@library.tamu.edu

• Subjects? using "Mechanical Engineering" when batch uploading all. Reconciling various terms in existing metadata in OpenRefine takes too long. 
• Linking to Wikidata from repository records? Not yet, but going the other way, from Wikidata to repository

Presentation: PCC Wikidata pilot project at TSU

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TSU has 4 different projects.

Why they chose to participate

Initial Setup - presenting on Wikidata, demonstrating creation of record to gain interest and buy-in

Faculty authority work

• moving towards reliance on unique identifiers as opposed to detailed names; reassessing effort put into NACO (NACO-lite) records
• Preparatory steps for Faculty Authors
• Increasing visibility for faculty mentioned in campus news
• Progress on faculty pages: 84 out of 100 record target - potential good capstone project for student?

University Archives Oral History Project - why oral histories, notability 

• uses "has work in collection" and "archives at" properties for connection to oral history collection
• Starting points: surveyed what was already in Wikipedia/Wikidata, and collected links, looked at Stanford project for ideas
• Compiling data, starting with master oral history spreadsheet - minimums vs. how far to go with research/gathering?
• Bulk entry tools: Quickstatements and OpenRefine, mentions of pros and cons, learning curve is there but enabled participation in project
• Examples of brand new  and enhanced existing Wikidata records
• Looking forward: how to assess impact? Reflections on value

Wittliff Archives Collections - adding "archives at" statements for subjects

• Example of enhancement of existing Wikidata page
• Researching adding images to WIkiCommons to use in Wikidata
• Links may change on finding aids
• As of mid-March: nearly 300 edits of 68 articles
• Google search of name + "archives" consistently brings Wittliff archives as top hits

Digital Collections Journals - five journals currently published in IR

• Goal is to add or enhance records in Wikidata - Done

Further avenues: adding citations to Wikidata, Assessment of Wikidata, Developing best practices, Editing in Wikipedia, Addressing questions of sustainability

Resources shared

Q/A

• Citations in Wikidata would be selected publications? How to choose which to include? Author priority over editor status. 
• Profile for citations? Mary provided this example, and mentioned Guidelines for WikiBooks helpful on this.

Sharing what their project will be once up and running - demonstrating their project page on Wikidata

• Inspired by PnP WikiData Tool LOC Labs project
• Opportunity to demonstrate value of Linked Data for organization by linking Wikidata entities to finding aids. 
• Allyssa Anderson capstone student's recent work/presentation demonstrated process, possibilities, and increased visibility of HRC collections.
• Currently developing best practices, quality control metrics, and project questions, ideas and further research (e.g. how many and what properties exist to link to a specific item in a GLAM institution?) for their pilot. 
• Discussing questions around appropriate use/protocols for using "archives at" property - ok for partial archives? 
• Exploring possibility of creating Wikidata elements for RBMS/MARC 510 field citations - similar to Yale project idea, to get special collections more visible

Brief description of standard group meeting format/agenda going forward:

• Round-robin updates, announcements, FYIs, calls for collaboration
• One or more of the following topic-focused & group-facilitated activities:
• Group member-led demo, presentation, or tutorial
• Hands-on activity that everyone follows
• Guest speaker
• Review of action items, planning for next meeting 

Shared 3-question survey to gauge group member interests in topics and participation levels.