Submissions:2018/WikiData, Mix'n'Match, and Libraries

This submission has been noted and is pending review for WikiConference North America 2018.

Title

WikiData, Mix'n'Match, and Libraries

Theme (optional)

Tech & Tools

Academic Peer Review option

No

Type of submission

Presentation

Author

Rachel Helps

E-mail address

Rachel_Helpsbyu.edu

Wikimedia username

Rachel Helps (BYU)

Affiliation(s) (optional)

Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University

Abstract

Academic libraries often have databases of information. It is possible to automatically match a database to corresponding Wikidata items with the Mix'n'Match tool. I'll walk through the process of how to import a database into Mix'n'Match from start to finish. I'll start with evaluating a database to see if it should have its own property, and how to propose a new property on Wikidata. I'll explain how the Mix'n'Match upload tools work, and when it is better to try to manually upload your database. I'll show how to approve automatic matches, and recommend it as an introductory editing task for librarians. For unmatched entries, I'll briefly go over Wikidata's notability criteria and when to make a new Wikidata item for an unmatched item. If there's time, I'll demonstrate a few SPARQL queries surrounding a Mix'n'Match database. For this instruction, I'll draw on my own experience manually uploading one database and getting a property approved for another.

If this proposal is accepted, I'll ask Magnus more about exactly how items are matched and how the scraping import tool works and incorporate the information into my presentation.

Length of presentation

20 minutes

Special requests

I am open to collaborating with another person on a longer presentation. I'm definitely not an expert, but I'm happy to share what I've learned.

Preferred room size

10 people

Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?

No

If you will be incorporating a slidedeck during your presentation, do you agree to upload it to Commons before your session, with a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, including suitable attribution in the slidedeck for any images used?

Yes

Will you attend WikiConference North America if your submission is not accepted?

maybe

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