Wikidata:Events/LkPast-WD

Wikidata and Archival Metadata : opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions

Slides

Version 05.12.2019

Context

Study day on Linked Data, November 22, 2019, City of Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium.

hastag : #LinkingThePast

Free registration.

Title

Wikidata and Archival Metadata : opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions

Author

Baptiste de Coulon (le lieu imaginaire)

Biography

Baptiste de Coulon is an archivist and information manager in Switzerland. He works at his own company called « le lieu imaginaire » and is at the same time employed by the Library of the University of Lausanne as metadata manager in the Manuscript's Department. He has been conducting many projects for heritage institutions and societies for over ten years. He is involved in introducing a large use of the Wikimedia platforms in the daily job of the patrimonial institution's professionals.

Summary

The knowledge base Wikidata is a collaboratively edited online centralised repository, the use of which is free. The data are structured according to Resource Description Framework (RDF) specifications and published under the CC0 free licence. Wikidata do not store original information, all statements (entity–attribute–value) must have references. From our point of view, Wikidata will be the next key tool for heritage institution's professionals, if it is not already. We see three main uses : find information, clean and link autorities, give visibility to their collections.

See also

• WikiProject Archival Description
  • Data structure
  • Uses cases
• Wikidata:Data access
• Workshop "Archives et Wikidata" in Forum des archivistes 2019 (Q60812618)
• archives at (P485) in Wikipedia Infobox

SPARQL Queries

• Sample Queries for archives
• Exemples #AAFSaintÉ19
• Exemples

Use cases

• Desingel.be (Isabelle Faust)
• Tate.org.uk (Emily Kame Kngwarreye)
• https://archivfuehrer-kolonialzeit.de/
• gender gap in Wikimedia Project monitoring
• (video) Marina Gallet (Cinémathèque québéquoise), Pierre Choffet, " Partager ses données culturelles sur Wikidata", 3ème colloque sur le web sémantique au Québec, 2018.

Bibliography

• Mairelys Lemus-Rojas, Yoo Young Lee, Using Wikidata to Provide Visibility to Women in STEM, 2019 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Conference.
• Dina Herbert, Robbie Hott, Lettuce Into the Meal: A SNAC Update, WikiCon 2019.
• Katrina Cohen-Palacios, Wikidata & Archivists, Archives Association of Ontario Institutional Issues Forum 2019.
• Joachim Neubert, Wikidata (für Archive), AK Archive der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, October 1th, 2019.
• Baptiste de Coulon, Archives et Wikidata, arbido 2018/2.
• Julien A. Raemy, Un PID pour (enfin ?) les gouverner tous, Recherche d'idées, billet de blog, 2 septembre 2019.
• Beat Estermann, "How Wikidata Is Solving Its Chicken-or-Egg-Problem in the Field of Cultural Heritage", SocietyByte, Berne, 2018.
• Gautier Poupeau, "Les technos du Web sémantique ont-elles tenu leurs promesses ?", billets de blog, Les petites cases, 6 octobre 2018.
• calimaq (Lionel Maurel), "L’émergence de la figure d’un Etat "contributeur aux Communs numériques"", billet de blog, 30 décembre 2017.

Tutorial

• video : A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners (including non-techies!), Video par Ijon, 9 février 2017, 3 heures.
• video : Querying Wikidata with SPARQL for Absolute Beginners, Video par Ijon, 15 juin 2018, 2 heures.