time presents opportunities to promote core library values of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the collaborative creation of descriptive metadata.
Providing background on the Wikidata community and knowledge base, this white paper includes use cases exploring projects and initiatives in the broader cultural heritage community, including:
- Using Wikidata and Wikibase to expand the scope of applications of linked open data that have until now been domain or academic-subject specific
- Establishing the relationship between Wikidata and authority files
- Increasing the visibility of institutions, content, people, events, and more in Wikipedia through structured data in Wikidata
- Using Wikidata for bibliographic/archival description and discovery
- Using Wikidata within an emerging system of open scholarly communication and scholarly infrastructure
- Deploying Wikibase as infrastructure for linked open data (including open, authoritative data not open to edit)
- Wikibase and Wikidata as infrastructure for FAIR (Findable, Accessable, Interoperable, Reusable) data33
- Librarians learning from and influencing the Wikidata community by contributing to documentation and tool development that will reduce the barriers to participation
Most active LOD projects in libraries have been concentrated in large institutions in the US and Europe—the kind of organizations with dedicated information technology and systems departments, and staff with capacity to invest in retooling basic infrastructure and data models. The Task Force encourages library leaders to take a broad-based view of how their organizations might discuss and implement its recommendations, convening staff across their organizations to see Wikidata as part of:
