- Data can also be added ad hoc after being exported from Zotero86 into the QuickStatements tool.87
- Institutions can consider running Wikidata edit-a-thons88 (for staff and/or as public events), especially during events like Open Access Week, Open Data Day, Mozilla Global Sprint, or Ada Lovelace Day, to add faculty and researcher profiles and publications to Wikidata.
Wikibase and Infrastructure for Linked Open Data
The software that drives Wikidata, Wikibase,89 can offer value to the broader library community independent of Wikidata. The relatively lightweight technology stack and easy-to-use human-readable interface make Wikibase a viable piece of infrastructure for developing a linked data store. Wikibase is particularly useful in cases where data and data models are highly specialized or there are considerations that require greater control over the data. Wikibase has a growing community of users in the GLAM and research sectors.
There are a number of benefits to using Wikibase, as Matt Miller of the Library of Congress describes:
- Statement level provenance (what Wikibase calls references)
- Revision tracking and history
- A nice user interface for manual editing and curation
- An API to do bulk data work
- SPARQL endpoint90
Wikibase provides something that a number of other platforms in the linked data environment have not: a dynamic, machine- and human-contributable and readable environment that supports diversity of language and data structure from the beginning. The growing number of Wikibase implementations (examples below) suggests opportunities for scholarly and GLAM reuse of the software as a generic data
