ARL White Paper on Wikidata Highlights Use of Open Knowledge in Scholarly Communication, Special Collections | Association of Research Libraries® | ARL®

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Summary:

"In a new Association of Research Libraries (ARL) white paper, a task force of expert Wikidata users recommend a variety of ways for librarians to use the open knowledge base in advancing global discovery of their collections, faculty, and institutions.

Librarians are using Wikidata’s structured data about people, topics, concepts, and objects to populate open source faculty profiling systems, to enhance bibliographic records in online catalogs, and to collaborate with communities on meaningful, culturally relevant, descriptive metadata for special collections and archives. The white paper, circulated for public comment in fall 2018, contains examples of Wikidata applications, screenshots, and recommendations for involvement on an individual or organizational level...."

Link:

https://www.arl.org/news/arl-news/4748-arl-white-paper-on-wikidata-highlights-use-of-open-knowledge-in-scholarly-communication-special-collections

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Tags:

oa.new oa.arl oa.wikidata oa.scholcomm oa.lod oa.metadata oa.glam oa.libraries

Date tagged:

04/20/2019, 13:28

Date published:

04/20/2019, 09:28