Browsing by Subject "Latin American Women"

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    Enhancing the Representation of Latin American Women Scholars and their Scholarship in Wikidata
    (2019-06-28) Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys
    Libraries interested in exploring linked data opportunities have been engaging with Wikidata–a freely accessible knowledge base. Wikidata stores structured linked data that can be consumed by other projects that are part of the Wikimedia ecosystem, as well as external sources. The participation of libraries and other communities in Wikidata can be pivotal in modelling and building a more comprehensive data source. The SALALM community has the knowledge expertise needed to start making contributions toward achieving a more balanced representation of Latin American women scholars and their scholarship output in the knowledge base, which will ultimately enhance their discoverability.
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    Wikidata: Celebrating Women Latin Americanists in the Knowledge Base
    (2024-06-11) Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys
    The gender disparity across the Wikimedia ecosystem of projects continues to be prevalent. Wikidata, a project that is part of this ecosystem of free and open projects, offers a relatively low barrier for contributing content that can have an impact beyond these platforms. For instance, Wikidata’s data has been used to populate knowledge graphs as well as train large language models (LLM). In this workshop, you will learn about Wikidata and the tools/services available for contributing, visualizing, and querying data. We will focus on contributing data about women Latin Americanists which will serve as a step toward helping bridge the gender divide, enhancing the representation and visibility to this demographic group, as well as improving results in search engines. Participants are encouraged to bring names and biographical data of women Latin Americanists to contribute to Wikidata.