Wikidata:WikiProject Stanford Libraries
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A WikiProject for work done at Stanford Libraries to connect library data with Wikidata.
Stanford Wikidata Working Group[edit]
The Stanford Wikidata Working Group meets weekly for one hour in person and online. For more information, see the group overview (requires Stanford login), or contact Arcadialib.
Description guidelines[edit]
Data models and vocabularies[edit]
Quick reference guides[edit]
- Merging duplicate items
- Indicating that similar items are not duplicates or that duplication is questionable
- Using Wikidata help pages
- Batch loading data
Current projects[edit]
- Adding LCNAF identifiers to people currently or formerly employed at Stanford (worksheet)
- Adding "archives at" property to people and organizations for which Stanford holds an archival collection (worksheet)
- Resolving violations of unique value constraint for LCNAF identifiers, i.e. same LCNAF associated with multiple items (workflow, worksheet)
- Linking Mozart works to different editions of the Köchel catalogue (items with edition link)
- Describing Stanford schools, research centers, research laboratories, named professorships, and faculty
- Replacing author name strings with author QIDs for Stanford faculty (author disambiguation tool)
Queries[edit]
- People employed by Stanford at any time with no LCNAF (all)
- People employed by Stanford at any time not linked to English Wikipedia
- Same LCNAF assigned to different items (instances of humans only, limit 1000)
- Same VIAF assigned to different items (limit 50)
- Human writers without LCNAF identifiers (limit 50)
- Human writers with LCNAF identifiers who have a label in Russian but not in English (query can be edited to use languages other than Russian)
Getting started[edit]
- Create a Wikidata account
- Join the project and configure your account
- Introduction to Wikidata
- Wikidata glossary
- Main help page
General resources[edit]
Property resources[edit]
- List of all Wikidata properties with descriptions
- List of properties about people
- List of properties related to name authority control
- List of properties about organizations
- List of properties about different kinds of works
- List of properties related to citing sources
- List of properties related to identifiers
- List of qualifiers
- List of data types
Query resources[edit]
- Wikidata SPARQL query interface
- Introduction to SPARQL in Wikidata
- Wikidata SPARQL tutorial
- Wikidata help portal for SPARQL queries
- Wikidata sample queries
- Request a query from a Wikidata volunteer
Wikidata policies and guidelines[edit]
- Distinguishing between instance and subclass
- Describing living people
- Notability in Wikidata
- Referencing data sources (also includes information on Wikidata's interpretation of FRBR)
- Criteria for verifiability of statements
- Weekly status updates for Wikidata
Working in multiple languages[edit]
- Wikimedia language codes (primarily ISO 639-1)
- Main Wikidata multilingual help page
- Activate the LabelLister gadget for editing labels, aliases, and descriptions in multiple languages
- Babel extension to set user language preferences
- View your language fallback chain
Related WikiProjects[edit]
- Wikidata:WikiProject_Archival_Description
- Wikidata:WikiProject Biographical Identifiers
- Wikidata:WikiProject_Books
- Wikidata:WikiProject_Cultural_heritage
- Wikidata:WikiProject_Events
- Wikidata:WikiProject_Historical_Place
- Wikidata:WikiProject_Informatics/Software
- Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies
- Wikidata:WikiProject_Music
- Wikidata:WikiProject_Periodicals
- Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData
- Wikidata:WikiProject_Theatre
- Wikidata:WikiProject_Universities
- Wikidata:WikiProject_Video_games
Wikidata and libraries[edit]
- ARL white paper on Wikidata
- Library of Congress blog post on integrating Wikidata into authority files
- Library of Congress reports on ongoing bulk loads of Wikidata identifiers into authority files
- Slides from Wikidata for Librarians Workshop at UC DLFx 2019
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group
- "Creating structured linked data to generate scholarly profiles: a pilot project using Wikidata and Scholia" by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas and Jere D. Odell, 2018
- Wikidata for catalogers workshop by Ruth Kitchin Tillman, 2019
- Archives and Linked Data Interest Group
- PCC Wikidata Pilot
Metrics[edit]
Project statistics are tracked using Event Metrics and monthly reports made available here.
Participants[edit]
The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:{{Ping project|Stanford Libraries}}
- JoannaKwikdat
- Premadesai (talk) 20:12, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
- RJRohrbacher (talk) 19:24, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
- SchneiderJosh (talk) 18:40, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
- Arcadialib (talk) 18:16, 31 May 2019 (UTC) (coordinator)
- Jkalchik (talk) 20:12, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
- Krt0317 (talk) 15:09, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
- Glen Worthey (talk) 12:24, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
- LauraWilsey (talk) 17:08, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
- Hexonxon (talk) 18:08, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
- Kristen StJohn (talk) 20:54, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
- Pollockc (talk) 18:56, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
- Metadatum (talk) 16:22, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
- Cebraj (talk) 16:10, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
- Itrapido (talk) 18:21, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
- Silentdivas (talk) 18:39, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
- Richendalea (talk) 18:21, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
- Peterchanws (talk) 18:52, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
- Magda Gad (talk) 18:56, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
- Celloheidi (talk) 16:07, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
- Njmar (talk) 19:45, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
- Spitzc (talk) 18:28, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
- Chicagohil (talk) 18:44, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
- Gracebrindle (talk) 01:23, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
- ThalassaLib (talk) 22:50, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
- Kind data (talk) 22:57, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
Subpages[edit]
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Account configuration
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Batch loading data
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Data models
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Describing people
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Describing people/Application profiles
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Indicating that similar items are not duplicates or that duplication is questionable
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Merging duplicate items
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Metrics
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Metrics/2019-06
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Metrics/2019-07
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Metrics/2019-08
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Metrics/2019-09
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Metrics/2019-10
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Metrics/2019-11
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Metrics/2019-12
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Metrics/2020-01
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Metrics/2020-02
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Metrics/2020-03
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Metrics/2020-04
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Metrics/2020-05
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Metrics/2020-06
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Metrics/2020-07
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Metrics/2020-08
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Participants
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Properties
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Providing aliases
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Resolving violations of unique value constraint for LCNAF identifiers
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Sourcing statements via references
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Theses
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Theses/StanfordThesisDashboard
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Theses/StanfordThesisDashboard People
- WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Using Wikidata help pages