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Item ARL White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations(Association of Research Libraries (ARL), 2019-04-18) Allison-Cassin, Stacy; Armstrong, Alison; Ayers, Phoebe; Cramer, Tom; Custer, Mark; Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys; McCallum, Sally; Proffitt, Merrilee; Puente, Mark; Ruttenberg, Judy; Stinson, AlexItem Bringing archival collections to Wikipedia with the Remixing Archival Metadata Project (RAMP) editor(2017-07-03) Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys; Thompson, Timothy A.Wikipedia has been in existence for 16 years, but it was not until recently that GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) institutions started to see it as a trusted source and one they were interested in contributing to. Libraries and archives, in particular, have been slowly embracing the idea of contributing to Wikipedia, often motivated by the prospect of increasing the visibility and impact of their distinctive collections, which have been carefully curated by librarians and archivists alike. Different approaches have been taken by libraries and archives when it comes to contributing to Wikipedia. Some institutions have focused on adding links to Wikipedia articles in order to point back to their unique archival collections, whereas others have concentrated on enhancing the content of existing articles. Another way in which librarians and archivists can work together to share our collections is to collaborate on projects to enrich and repurpose the metadata that has already been created to describe them. The University of Miami Libraries took this approach and developed a tool to facilitate the creation of Wikipedia articles using relevant metadata from the libraries’ finding aids (documents that describe the scope, content, and context of archival collections). In this chapter, we will introduce the RAMP (Remixing Archival Metadata Project) editor and share our experience working on a pilot project conducted to test its viability.Item Bringing Indiana Libraries and their Collections to Wikidata(2018-08-21) Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys; Odell, Jere D.Item Bringing the Canadian Archive of Women in STEM to Wikidata: How Wikidata can be used in an archival context(2020-06-08) Lee, Yoo Young; Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys; Bokovay, MarinaLibraries and archives can play a critical role in the creation and curation of data in Wikidata to ensure underrepresented communities are not only included, but also properly described in the knowledge base. This workshop will provide a brief overview of Wikidata in the archival context and its possible uses. We will also share our experiences using Wikidata for the the Canadian Archive of Women in STEM initiative (https://biblio.uottawa.ca/en/women-in-stem/about) based on the WikiProject Archival Description initiative (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Archival_Description). The goal of the Canadian Archive of Women in STEM is to bring attention to and promote the discovery of the archival records of women in STEM held by Canadian institutions–a bilingual portal containing descriptive metadata, a biographical sketch/admin history about the women/organizations and information about the host institution–in order to provide a simplified avenue for researchers to discover all available holdings. Contributing the archival metadata and the biographical sketch, as well as links to the host institutions to Wikidata could further increase the visibility of collections, finding aids, as well as the institutions themselves, beyond archival or library systems. This workshop is designed to be interactive with a series of hands-on activities which includes a demonstration of how to contribute content from archival finding aids to Wikidata as well as an introduction on efficient workflows and useful tools for contributing, visualizing and querying the data. This workshop aims to encourage archivists to participate in the open knowledge movement and contribute their unique collections to Wikidata to expand their findability and reach.Item Bringing Wikipedia to IUPUI University Library: #1lib1ref Participation(2017-05-04) Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys; Odell, Jere D.A good Wikipedia article is one that contains citations to reliable sources so that readers can verify the information and find even more information related to that topic. Many Wikipedia articles, however, are missing a needed citation. For that reason, the Wikipedia Library came up with an initiative last year in an effort to bridge the citation gap. They launched the #1lib1ref campaign in January 15, 2016, which coincided with Wikipedia’s 15th birthday. The idea behind this global campaign was to encourage every librarian to provide Wikipedia with the gift of one citation to an article in need.1 The success of this initiative motivated the Wikipedia Library to host this event again in 2017 where a noticeable increase in participation was recorded. There was also an increase in the number of Wikipedia workshops and sessions held at libraries across the globe in order to provide new editors with the necessary tools to undertake the task of adding citations to the online encyclopedia. 2 Reflecting the library’s strong interest in supporting free access to quality information, IUPUI University Library was one of the institutions that participated in this effort.Item Building an on-RAMP to Wikipedia(The Wikipedia Library, 2015-04) Thompson, Timothy; Lemus-Rojas, MairelysItem Building Bridges with Structured Linked Data at IUPUI University Library(InULA, 2018-11-29) Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys; Odell, Jere D.Item Contributing Open Citations to Wikipedia: An OA Week OAbot Edit-A-Thon(InULA, 2017-11-29) Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys; Odell, Jere D.; University LibraryItem Contributing to the Portuguese Wikipedia with the Wikipedia Translation Project at Brown University(2024-06-11) Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys; Sobral, Patricia; Figueroa, PatriciaProviding equitable access to the consumption and creation of knowledge is at the core of organizations like the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia, which is part of the ecosystem of open knowledge projects under the umbrella of Wikimedia, is available in over 300 languages. However, having this reach doesn’t mean all languages have the same coverage. With efforts underway carried out by the global community of users to try and mitigate the prevalent gender gap in the online encyclopedia, at Brown University, we have taken a step toward helping bridge the content and gender gap in the Portuguese-language version of Wikipedia. This is how the Wikipedia Translation Project was developed and has been implemented in the POBS 0400 course on Writing and Speaking Portuguese. The project mainly focuses on improving the coverage of those who lack representation, for example, women biographies in the Portuguese-language version of Wikipedia given that women biographies account for 20% of all biographies. In this presentation, we will share our experience in conceptualizing and implementing this project as well as its outcomes.Item Contributing to the Representation of Women Artists in Wikidata(2019-11-07) Lemus-Rojas, MairelysOpen knowledge projects that are part of the Wikimedia ecosystem allow users to consume, contribute, and reuse the data. Wikidata, the structured linked data knowledge base that serves as a hub for all Wikimedia projects, offers interesting opportunities for GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) institutions. Despite the fact that Wikidata holds over 60 million items, and that it is constantly growing, there is a noticeable gender disparity favoring entries for males. In this presentation, I share details of my efforts toward bridging the gender divide and hope to encourage GLAM professionals to join me in reshaping the art historical narrative in ways that can positively help bridging the gender gap in Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects while also providing more visibility to female artists in museum and library collections.