Wikidata:WikiProject Black Teacher Archive
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Aim and Scope[edit]
The aim of the Black Teacher Archive (BTA) WikiProject is to create linked data for the organizations, publications, K-12 schools, and education leaders represented in the BTA digital collection. Composed of nearly 1,900 items, published between 1906-1984, the collection is mainly composed of bi-monthly and monthly journals and newsletters of state and national Black educator organizations. Within the publications feature convention reports, articles on pedagogy, statistics, and community news. The creation and editing of Wikidata entries based on information in the publications and supplemented with other resources such as newspapers, dissertations, scholarly articles, and geographic databases will help to develop datasets for re-use.
The BTA is an open-access project. Through the coordination of digitization, centralizing items in a digital portal, and commitment to digital preservation of these items we aim to increase access to this body of material that is geographically scattered across institutions for research and study from any place with an internet connection. While the items in the collection were published by distinct educator associations, the membership was engaged in multiple networks, and thus the BTA believes that the project must also be an open-data project too.
We have chose the Wikidata platform to serve the project for the following reasons:
- free platform that places data in the public domain
- encourages collaboration to create and maintain entries
- the defined information boxes and statement-based input, eliminates the need for editorial language
- information is formatted as structured data format which enables machine computation
- supports other Wikis
Background[edit]
The Black Teacher Archive (BTA) is a digital portal centralizing materials created by professional organizations of African American educators in the 20th century, historically referred to as Colored Teachers Associations (CTAs). As early as 1861, the first documented CTA was formed in Ohio, state-wide associations began to proliferate in southern states during the late nineteenth century, and in some Northern and Midwestern states during Jim Crow. Black teachers founded CTAs to enhance educational opportunities for Black children, to develop themselves as professionals, political actors, and intellectuals, as well as to organize around broader socio-political concerns in the Black Freedom Movement.
The project is based at Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education and is made possible through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Spencer Foundation. The BTA brings together materials physically stewarded in over 70 archival repositories across the United States. The bulk of the collection is comprised of digitized serial publications published by state educator organizations and nationally.
Contributors and Contact Information[edit]
Goals of the Project[edit]
- Demonstrate the network of people, spaces, and organizations that supported the intellectual, political, and professional contributions of Black teachers in the United States during Jim Crow.
- Develop and refine entries on Wikidata using the Black Teacher Archive collection for reuse and secondary publication
- Engage with multiple publics (scholarly, librarian, and general) to improve discovery and familiarity with digital humanities exploration of "archives as data"
Getting Started[edit]
- 3-Min Video Introduction to WikiData
- Workflow document (in process)
- 5-Min WikiData Tour
- Wikidata Glossary
Wikidata Items to Create[edit]
[Link to spreadsheet]
Describing Organizations[edit]
Essential properties[edit]
| Property | Value | Usage note | Add reference? |
|---|---|---|---|
| instance of (P31) | organization (Q43229) | This is required by Wikidata, and should be the first statement added to a new item. | no |
| country (P17) | United States of America (Q30) | no | |
| located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) | name of state | no | |
| field of work (P101) | education (Q8434) | no | |
| on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008) | Black Teacher Archive Wikidata Project (Q126195971) | This exists for tracking purposes. It is essentially administrative metadata that indicates the item was created or edited as part of this project, which gives us the ability to create lists and reports. | no |
Additional properties[edit]
| Property | Value | Value may be new entity? | Usage note |
|---|---|---|---|
| inception (P571) | date or year | no | |
| dissolved, abolished or demolished date (P576) | date or year | no | |
| has subsidiary (P355) | name of organization | yes | |
| parent organization (P749) | name of organization | yes | |
| founded by (P112) | name of person | yes | |
| follows (P155) | preceding name of organization, if applicable | yes | |
| followed by (P156) | succeeding name of organization, if applicable | yes |
Describing People[edit]
Essential properties[edit]
| Property | Value | Usage note | Add reference? |
|---|---|---|---|
| instance of (P31) | human (Q5) | This is required by Wikidata, and should be the first statement added to a new item. | no |
| occupation (P106) | teacher (Q37226), pedagogue (Q1231865), professor (Q121594), or other values as appropriate | A person can have multiple occupation statements. | no |
| has works in the collection (P6379) | Black Teacher Archive (Q123909278) | This statement should only be applied if an article of reprint of a speech is authored by the person in The BTA collection. | yes (you can use CURIOSity site as a reference URL (P854)) |
| on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008) | Black Teacher Archive Wikidata Project (Q126195971) | This exists for tracking purposes. It is essentially administrative metadata that indicates the item was created or edited as part of this project, which gives us the ability to create lists and reports. | no |
| at least one identifier property (see table below for specific properties) | (see table below for lookups) | Add at least one identifier, if available. These are helpful for disambiguation, especially when there are few other statements about an item, and may also help to establish the item's notability. The table below contains a non-exhaustive list of likely identifiers and their lookups. | no |
Additional properties[edit]
Please familiarize yourself with Wikidata's guidelines concerning description of living people and err on the side of respecting privacy.
The column header Value may be new entity? means "Might I need to create another Wikidata item to use this property, or should all the items I would need to refer to exist already?" For example, values for country of citizenship (P27) should be existing countries, so it is marked "no". Whereas employer (P108) might need to refer to an organization that isn't yet represented in Wikidata, so it is marked "yes".
| Property | Value | Value may be new entity? | Usage note |
|---|---|---|---|
| date of birth (P569) | date or year | no | |
| date of death (P570) | date or year | no | |
| place of birth (P19) | most specific place known (e.g. city instead of country) | no | |
| place of death (P20) | most specific place known (e.g. city instead of country) | no | |
| given name (P735) | first name | yes | |
| family name (P734) | surname | yes | |
| country of citizenship (P27) | country | no | |
| ethnic group (P172) | African Americans (Q49085) or other values that reflect an individual's self-identified ethnicity or race | no | Do not add without referenceable sources. Do not make inferences or assumptions. When in doubt, omit. |
| sex or gender (P21) | male (Q6581097), female (Q6581072), non-binary (Q48270), or other values that reflect an individual's self-identified gender | no | Do not add without referenceable sources. Do not make inferences based on given names. When in doubt, omit. |
| educated at (P69) | name of institution | yes | Names of high schools may need to be created as new items. |
| employer (P108) | name of institution | no | |
| work location (P937) | most specific place known (e.g. city instead of country) | no | |
| field of work (P101) | education (Q8434), pedagogy (Q7922), or other values as appropriate | no | |
| academic degree (P512) | type of degree | no | |
| affiliation (P1416) | name of organization | yes | |
| member of (P463) | name of organization | yes | The state teachers associations can be used as values here. |
| employer (P108) | employer |
Identifiers[edit]
Describing Publications[edit]
Essential properties[edit]
| Property | Value | Usage note | Add reference? |
|---|---|---|---|
| instance of (P31) | magazine (Q41298), periodical (Q1002697), or other appropriate value | This is required by Wikidata, and should be the first statement added to a new item. | no |
| on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008) | Black Teacher Archive Wikidata Project (Q126195971) | This exists for tracking purposes. It is essentially administrative metadata that indicates the item was created or edited as part of this project, which gives us the ability to create lists and reports. | no |
Additional properties[edit]
| Property | Value | Value may be new entity? | Usage note |
|---|---|---|---|
| publisher (P123) | name of organization | yes | |
| place of publication (P291) | most specific place known (e.g. city instead of country) | no | |
| language of work or name (P407) | English (Q1860) | no | |
| publication date (P577) | year | no | Can be qualified by start time (P580) and end time (P582) |
| main subject (P921) | education (Q8434), pedagogy (Q7922), or other appropriate value | no |
Identifiers[edit]
| Property | Value | Usage note | Requires reference? |
|---|---|---|---|
| OCLC control number (P243) | no | ||
| ISSN (P236) | no |
Describing Schools[edit]
Essential properties[edit]
| Property | Value | Usage note | Add reference? |
|---|---|---|---|
| instance of (P31) | school (Q3914), primary school (Q9842), secondary school (Q159334), high school (Q9826), or other value as appropriate | This is required by Wikidata, and should be the first statement added to a new item. | no |
| country (P17) | United States of America (Q30) | no | |
| located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) | name of state | no | |
| on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008) | Black Teacher Archive Wikidata Project (Q126195971) | This exists for tracking purposes. It is essentially administrative metadata that indicates the item was created or edited as part of this project, which gives us the ability to create lists and reports. | no |
Additional properties[edit]
| Property | Value | Value may be new entity? | Usage note |
|---|---|---|---|
| inception (P571) | date or year | no | |
| dissolved, abolished or demolished date (P576) | date or year | no | |
| motto (P1546) | phrase | yes | |
| coordinate location (P625) | latitude and longitude | no |
Queries[edit]
- Has works in the collection Black Teacher Archive
- Statements by property