About ARL
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit membership organization of libraries and archives in major public and private universities, federal government agencies, and large public institutions in the US and Canada. ARL advances research, learning, and scholarly communication, fosters the open exchange of ideas and expertise, promotes equity and diversity, and pursues advocacy and public policy efforts that reflect the values of the library, scholarly, and higher education communities. ARL forges partnerships and catalyzes the collective efforts of research libraries to enable knowledge creation and to achieve enduring and barrier-free access to information.1
ARL Task Force on Wikimedia and Linked Open Data
- Stacy Allison-Cassin, York University
- Alison Armstrong, Ohio State University
- Phoebe Ayers, MIT; former trustee. Wikimedia Foundation
- Tom Cramer, Stanford University
- Mark Custer, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Yale University
- Mairelys Lemus-Rojas, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
- Sally McCallum, Library of Congress
- Merrilee Proffitt, OCLC Research
- Mark A. Puente, Association of Research Libraries
- Judy Ruttenberg, Association of Research Libraries
- Alex Stinson, Wikimedia Foundation
Contributors and Editors
The ARL Task Force on Wikimedia and Linked Open Data made a draft of this paper available for public comment from November 19 through November 30, 2018. Many people (librarians. Wikimedians, and others) provided valuable and constructive feedback including the following:
