Wikidata:WikiProject University of Maryland Libraries

This is a WikiProject for work done at the University of Maryland Libraries (Q7895690) to create and enhance Wikidata items with information from the UMD Special Collections and Archives and Special Collections in Performing Arts. The UMD Libraries' central Wikidata editing project took place between June 2020 and September 2022. Since then, UMD editors have continued to explore and enhance Wikidata via a selection of smaller-scale projects; local practices and other information on this page may change as we progress. At this time, all new items are created performed manually by participants.

Best practices

Local practices

(UMD participants: much of this information is duplicated in the "Wikidata Training Resources" Google Doc, but the WikiProject page should be considered the primary source of information.)

• Wikidata project procedures
• Core and recommended properties
• Newspaper properties and procedure
• Frequently asked questions
• Selected tools and gadgets

External resources

• Recommendations of the Archives Linked Data Interest Group, in particular:
  • Describing People
  • Describing Organizations
• WikiProject Music (includes recommended properties for musicians, ensembles, and musical works)
• Penn State University Libraries' WikiProject page
• Other WikiProject Libraries pages
• Practical Wikidata for Librarians (tips for getting started and setting preferences, plus lots of tools and gadgets to enhance your editing capabilities, collected by the LD4P program)

Wikidata resources

• Notability requirements
• Basic membership properties (discussion of instance of (P31), subclass of (P279), and part of (P361))
• Sources and references
• Main Wikidata help page
• Wikidata policies and guidelines

Queries

All of these queries are offered for monitoring purposes.

• Any entities whose papers are archived at the UMD Libraries
• Corporate names (not humans) whose papers are archived at the UMD Libraries
• Persons whose papers are archived at the UMD Libraries
• Newspaper archives at the UMD Libraries
• Oral histories held at the UMD Libraries

• Number of entities that use archives_at by repository, (courtesy of @erussey). This visualization aims to trace the evolution of UMD Libraries WD work compared to other institutions.
• A few stats:

Month	Total Entities	Corporate	Persons
May 2020	7	0	7
August 2020	343	68	275
December 2020	774	172	602
April 2021	966	221	745
August 2021	1058	243	815
December 2021	1175	284	891
February 2022	1241	304	937
April 2022	1288	324	964
June 2022	1346	352	994
August 2022	1419	411	1008
October 2022	1537	491	1046
May 2023	1539	491	1048

Data provenance

New items generated by this project are identifiable through the triplet ?item wdt:P485 wd:Q7895690 and do not include any further provenance metadata.

Project leads

As part of a team of selectors, metadata experts and archivists, the creation of entities pertaining to this project is led by Sarah Hovde (sehovde); Neil M. Frau-Cortes (dhneil) co-led this project from its inception in June 2020 to August 2021. The team is composed of catalogers of the University of Maryland Libraries (Q7895690)

Participants

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The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:
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• Sehovde (talk) 19:41, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
• Dhneil (talk) 19:59, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
• Squintil (talk) 21:04, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
• Beth Iseminger (talk) 21:17, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
• Starker rules (talk) 22:52, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
• Jadoherty (talk) 17:53, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
• BethGuay (talk) 21:35, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
• Osccequable (talk) 20:04, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
• RobinReiss (talk) 14:54, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Subpages

• WikiProject University of Maryland Libraries/Core and recommended properties
• WikiProject University of Maryland Libraries/FAQ
• WikiProject University of Maryland Libraries/Newspaper properties and procedure
• WikiProject University of Maryland Libraries/Participants
• WikiProject University of Maryland Libraries/Punk zines and venues
• WikiProject University of Maryland Libraries/Tools and gadgets
• WikiProject University of Maryland Libraries/Wikidata project procedure
• WikiProject University of Maryland Libraries/Wikidata project procedure/Creating items for UMD-related corporate names