Browsing by Subject "Open Data"

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    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, Alex
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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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    Using Wikidata to Provide Visibility to Women in STEM
    (2019-09-24) Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys; Lee, Yoo Young
    Wikidata is an open knowledge base that stores structured linked data. It contains over 58 million items (“Wikidata:Statistics,” n.d.), but its data reveal a noticeable and prevalent gender disparity. In an effort to contribute to the growth and enhancement of women entries in Wikidata, the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) University Library and the University of Ottawa Library collaborated to embark on pilot projects that broaden the representation and enhance the visibility of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). In this article, we share the methods used at both institutions for collecting faculty data, batch ingesting data using external tools, as well as mapping archival data to existing Wikidata properties. We also discuss the challenges faced during the pilot projects.
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    Wiki Learning Event: Wikidata
    (2019-01-03) Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys; Odell, Jere D.
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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.
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    Wikidata: Open Linked Data for Library Publishing
    (2019-05-10) Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys; Odell, Jere D.; Polley, David E.
    Wikidata, a collaboratively edited, open, linked data knowledge base hosted by the Wikimedia foundation, includes a growing collection of open citation data. As of November 2018, more than 20 million publications and 160 million citations have been contributed to Wikidata (http://wikicite.org/statistics.html). Many of these data items have been added by bots that contribute data from open bibliographic databases, including PubMed Central, and from data made available by Crossref and the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC). Although this approach may be the most efficient way to build a large corpus of open citation data, many scholarly journals will be missed. Journals that cannot meet the requirements of a Crossref contract (for financial or technical reasons) will be invisible in growing open citation network. The journals that are likely to be missed are also those that have not been well-served by for-profit publishers and large university presses–including print journals that flipped to open access and journals in fields that are unfamiliar with or unconvinced of the value of a Crossref DOI (e.g., law reviews and some arts and humanities journals). In this presentation we demonstrate how a library publisher can contribute bibliographic data to Wikidata. By using both manual and batch-processing methods, we contributed complete runs for selected journals hosted on our library’s instance of Open Journal Systems. We share our methods for contributing data for journals that mint DOIs and for journals that do not. We also provide a demonstration of the short-term benefits of building this collection in Wikidata and reflect on the challenges of including Wikidata in a library-publishing program.