Open Knowledge Report (2017-2018)

IUPUI University Library's Open Knowledge Report (2017-2018).This report includes all Wikimedia-related activities from January 1st, 2017 to December 31, 2018. It covers events hosted at IUPUI University Library and the Ruth Lilly Medical Library, and projects focused on making our archival collections, library-hosted publications, and the scholarly output of our faculty members more accessible. In addition, it includes a list of relevant publications as well as presentations given at various conferences as a way of sharing ongoing efforts and increasing awareness of Open Knowledge projects

Contributing to the Representation of Women Artists in Wikidata

Presentation given at the 2019 MCN (Museum Computer Network) Conference.Open 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

Wikidata and Libraries: Facilitating Open Knowledge

Book chapter preprint. Chapter published (2018) in "Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge" (pp. 143-158). Chicago, IL: ALA Editions.Libraries and archives are increasingly embracing the value of contributing information to open knowledge projects. Users come to Wikipedia—one of the best-known open knowledge projects—to learn about a specific topic or for quick fact checking. Even more serious researchers use it as a starting point for finding links to external resources related to their topic of interest. Wikipedia is just one of the many projects under the umbrella of the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit charitable organization. Wikidata, for its part, is a sister project to Wikipedia. It stores structured data that is then fed back to the other Wiki projects, including Wikipedia, thus providing users with the most up-to-date information. This chapter focuses on Wikidata and its potential uses for libraries. We hope to inspire information professionals (librarians, archivists, library practitioners) to take the next step and start a conversation with their institutions and colleagues to free their data by contributing it to an open knowledge base like Wikidata

Facilitating Open Knowledge: The Intersection of Wikidata and Libraries

Presentation given as part of the AALL TS/OBS Joint Summi

Social Networks & Archival Context (SNAC) for Improved Archival Research

Presentation slides from the 2018 SIA (Society of Indiana Archivists) annual meeting.Despite our best efforts to make our collections accessible to the public through online finding aids, they’re still relatively invisible to researchers who don’t know where to look. SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context) was developed as a discovery service for archival collections from institutions around the world, using data that has been already created (i.e. finding aids, MARC records, and EAC-CPF) as a starting point. Using SNAC as a search tool allows researchers to quickly access specific information about the subjects they are researching, including links to collections (archival collections, related resources, related external links) and related names (people, families, organizations). Data visualizations help users to understand connections among these entities and suggest new avenues for research. This presentation focuses on how researchers can use SNAC to find archival collections. It also includes information on the SNAC Cooperative’s plans for training editors, efforts toward bulk importing data, and developing cross-functionality with ArchivesSpace to improve quality and access

Bringing Wikipedia to IUPUI University Library: #1lib1ref Participation

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

Creating Structured Linked Data to Generate Scholarly Profiles: A Pilot Project using Wikidata and Scholia

INTRODUCTION Wikidata, a knowledge base for structured linked data, provides an open platform for curating scholarly communication data. Because all elements in a Wikidata entry are linked to defining elements and metadata, other web systems can harvest and display the data in meaningful ways. Thus, Wikidata has the capacity to serve as the data source for faculty profiles. Scholia is an example of how third-party tools can leverage the power of Wikidata to provide faculty profiles and bibliographic, data-driven visualizations. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM In this article, we share our methods for contributing to Wikidata and displaying the data with Scholia. We deployed these methods as part of a pilot project in which we contributed data about a small but unique school on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus, the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. NEXT STEPS Following the completion of our pilot project, we aim to find additional methods for contributing large data collections to Wikidata. Specifically, we seek to contribute scholarly communication data that the library already maintains in other systems. We are also facilitating Wikidata edit-a-thons to increase the library’s familiarity with the knowledge base and our capacity to contribute to the site

Bringing archival collections to Wikipedia with the Remixing Archival Metadata Project (RAMP) editor

Book chapter preprint. Chapter published (2018) in "Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge" (pp. 197-213). Chicago, IL: ALA Editions.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

Wiki Learning Event: Wikidata

Event hosted as part of the IUPUI University Library's biannual Org Wee