Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Wikidata Working Hours/Wikidata Working Hour Summer-Fall Project 2022/2022-August-15 Wikidata Working Hour
August 15, 2022 Wikidata Working Hour
[edit]Monday, August 15, 2022 at 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET / 18:00 UTC / 8:00pm CEST (Time zone converter)
Recording
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Background
[edit]Over the summer and into the early fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by adding data about diverse children’s books from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, love children’s books, or have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to.
The fourth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover creating and editing items for publishers from our spreadsheet of children's book metadata.
Relevant Wikidata Policies and Guidelines
[edit]Examples
[edit]William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Imprint or Publisher?
[edit]The publisher column in the spreadsheet contains both publishers and imprints. What is the difference?
One way to think of an imprint is that it's often similar to a series in that it brings titles together under a theme. The Wikipedia definition of imprint specifies it is a trade name under which publishers often market titles to specific demographics. Wikidata's description of imprint is "trade name under which works are published; a publishing division of a publishing company." However, unlike series, an imprint is much more than just a phrase put on books: it is its own entity that is part of the larger publisher, often with dedicated editors.
A good example is Beach Lane, which specifies a location and date of inception and only the copyright statement at the very bottom (or the URL) provides a clue that this might be an imprint. If you look at this Worldcat record for "Mother Goose Goes to India", you can see a number of editions identify "Beach Lane Books" in the MARC subfield that usually contains the publisher's name.
Like many elements of metadata work, you may have to research some of the names as well as use your own judgement as to whether a given corporate name can be considered an imprint or a publisher! We will often be specifying the imprints under the publisher property later on when we create items for the books since they are considered in the library sphere as the entities who have "published" the titles.
Creating Publisher Items
[edit]We'll be looking at the reconciled spreadsheet to determine what publishers/imprints to create in Wikidata that do not already have a Wikidata record. Alternatively you can review ones with existing Wikidata records to see if they need enhancement.
Steps:
- Open this Google spreadsheet of publishers which have been pulled from the master spreadsheet.
- Claim a publisher by filling in your initials in the adjacent column.
- Search the publisher's name in a search engine to obtain more information.
- Search the publisher's name in Wikidata to double-check that it hasn't been created (for creation purposes). Or if would like to enhance an already existing publisher, you can search by the Q# adjacent to the name.
- If creating a new name, click "Create a new item" to start the creation process.
- The data model below has been created as a basic guide. Feel free to supplement with any relevant fields.
- Once your item has been created, add its QID to the Wikidata QID column (no need to manually add the other fields to the spreadsheet, they could be pulled in later if necessary by reconcilation).
Basic statements
[edit]| Property | Value | Usage note |
|---|---|---|
| Label | Publisher's name as most commonly known | Recommended to search in web browser to see how they identify themselves |
| Alias | Other form of name in use or previously used | |
| Description | based on predominant field of work | Guidelines: Some examples: multinational conglomerate publishing company, imprint by Macmillan |
| instance of (P31) | what class this corporation is a member of | book publisher (Q1320047), business (Q4830453), imprint (Q2608849) |
| industry (P452) | what industry the corporate name operates under | publishing (Q3972943) |
| country (P17) | country of incorporation | only one value is prefered |
| parent organization or unit (P749) | points to the parent organization | especially relevant for imprints, example, see Feiwel and Friends |
| child organization or unit (P355) | points to subsidiary companies, such as imprints | example, see Crown Publishing Group |
| official website (P856) | website if they have one | no reference needed, but specify as qualifiers retrieved (P813), language of work or name (P407) |
Optional statements
[edit]- Can search for additional properties on Wikidata List of Properties page.
| Property | Value | Usage note |
|---|---|---|
| inception (P571) | date of establishment, when an entity begins to exist | Example: 1991, (Feiwel and Friends) |
| headquarters location (P159) | If in United States, can be city | Example: Somerville, (Feiwel and Friends) |
| VIAF cluster ID (P214) | VIAF ID | can search at viaf.org, example: 156296327, (Feiwel and Friends) |
| Library of Congress authority ID (P244) | LCCN from national authority record | Can be searched at: https://id.loc.gov/ ; Format should be 1 or 2 letters and then numbers, no spacing, no reference needed, Example: no2005044873 (Feiwel and Friends) |
| official name (P1448) | Official name from an authoritative source | Reference needed; Example: Candlewick Press, Inc. (English)(Candlewick Press) |
Add references for created or enhanced author items
[edit]References
[edit]Most statements on Wikidata should be verifiable in some source of information. They point to a source that supports the data in a statement. References have a property and value like statements. The value is the source. The property is usually:
stated in (P248) for publications and media reference URL (P854) for websites and online databases
References are not required in some circumstances:
[edit]- Statement represents common knowledge that isn’t under dispute, such as author is an instance of human or Stephen King is a writer
- Statement refers to an external source of information that can be easily verified, such as ORCID identifiers
- Item itself is a source for the statement
References for Websites
[edit]The most common sources in Wikidata are probably websites. Use reference URL (P854) with the website as the value and retrieved (P813) with the date you accessed the website.
Steps for Adding References
[edit]- Click the "add reference" for any appropriate statement lacking references
- Enter a property, usually "reference URL"
- Paste the value (URL in this case)
- Click the "add" button to add the date retrieved
- Enter that property and then the date retrieved (if you have selected the currentDate gadget, it should automatically fill in the date)
Helpful Resources about References
[edit]- Help:Sources includes a good overview as well as steps for adding different types of resources as sources.
- Wikidata:Verifiability discusses what Wikidata considers are verifiable sources.
- LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group slides on references includes steps for adding an article and a book as a source for a reference.
- Stanford Libraries page on references including a list of properties used with references
- Slides on references
- DuplicateReferences and currentDate gadgets
Resources
[edit]- Today's Working Hour is part of a special series of sessions involving a single data set. You don't have to attend every session to be part of the project, but you can find details about the whole series here.