Submissions:2025/From Sounds to Solidarity: Jazz, Student Protests, and Wikidata
This submission has been noted and is pending review for WikiConference North America 2025.
Title:
- From Sounds to Solidarity: Jazz, Student Protests, and Wikidata
Type of session:
- Lecture (15-30 min)
Session theme(s):
- Missing pieces
Abstract:
The records of a single archival collection are inherently linked via a complex web of interrelationships between topics, people, places, and historical events. Current archival practices and metadata standards, however, do not easily facilitate the discovery of these relationships. In January 2025, Archivists at Dana Library on the campus of Rutgers University - Newark launched a pilot project utilizing Wikidata to make the complex data-sets about a jazz collection and a collection about an historic Rutgers-Newark student protest available to researchers. This presentation will explore how the archivists repurposed existing metadata to create new records in Wikidata, as well as provide an overview of the challenges, surprises, and successes.
Author name(s):
Wikimedia username(s):
- dbiunno and RUNewarkArchives
Affiliated organization(s):
- NA
Estimated length of session
- 20-30 minutes
Will you be presenting remotely?
- I will present in-person
Okay to livestream?
- Livestreaming is okay
Previously presented?
- No
Special requests:
- PowerPoint presentation (ability to project our laptop to a screen and share audio/video); We can't present on Thursday, the 16th but the other days work well.