Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Wikidata Working Hours/Wikidata Working Hour Summer-Fall Project 2022/2022-August-5 Wikidata Working Hour
August 5, 2022 Wikidata Working Hour
[edit]Friday, August 5, 2022 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 7:00pm CEST Time zone converter
Recording
[edit]View recording: https://stanford.zoom.us/rec/share/IHS88Uua-9_iQnS5B8EYaDW9ryf09JWJXZll7pxKItC1bq439qC_N8CX-eJmIHtb.6mD8hYSD6UCHnDbe?startTime=1659718234000
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Metrics
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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 third Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover creating and editing items for authors from our spreadsheet of children's book metadata using work from previous Working Hours.
Relevant Wikidata Policies and guidelines
[edit]Wikidata Living Person Policy - As you edit, please be cognizant of Wikidata's guidelines concerning description of living people and err on the side of respecting privacy.
Examples
[edit]Creating Contributor Items
[edit]We'll be looking at the reconciled spreadsheet to determine what names to create in Wikidata. We will be creating names for those contributors who do not already have a Wikidata record.
Steps:
- Open this Google spreadsheet
- Claim a contributor name (either author or illustrator) that doesn't yet exist in Wikidata (no Q number next to it) by filling in your initials in the adjacent column.
- Search the name in Wikidata to double-check that it hasn't been created.
- 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.
Basic statements
[edit]| Property | Value | Usage note |
|---|---|---|
| Label | Person's name as most commonly known | Recommended to search name in web browser to see if that's the common usage |
| Alias | Other form of name in use or previously used | |
| Description | based on predominant field of work | Guidelines: Some examples: American writer, Pakistani-American writer |
| instance of (P31) | human (Q5) | no reference needed |
| occupation (P106) | children's writer (Q4853732) | also include any other roles |
Optional statements
[edit]- Can search for additional properties on Wikidata List of Properties page.
A Note on creating Ethnicity Statements
[edit]- The documentation for this property suggests that these statements, given their potential sensitivity, require a high standard of proof, such as if the contributor has made this statement about themselves (and the Wikidata statement is properly documented with a reference). An example of a reference could be this declaration about themselves in the contributor's bio from their website.
| Property | Value | Usage note |
|---|---|---|
| official website (P856) | website if they have one | no reference needed, but specify retrieved (P813), language of work or name (P407) |
| languages spoken, written or signed (P1412) | languages spoken, written or signed | no reference needed, but specify retrieved (P813), language of work or name (P407) |
| educated at (P69) | Often institution at which you've had highest degree | Add qualifiers below as per information available; Example: Kelly Yang |
| educated at (P69) | academic degree (P512), academic major (P812) | academic degree and major |
| educated at (P69) | start time (P580), end time (P582), point in time (P585) | Use start & end time if known, else just point in time for year or date degree awarded |
| described at URL (P973) | if an author is described in another resource | Example: Zetta Elliott |
| award received (P166) | award | dependent on whether it exists in Wikidata; Example: Onjali Q. Raúf |
| country of citizenship (P27) | country of citizenship | if known and verified |
| ethnic group (P172) | ethnic group | subject's ethnicity (consensus is that a VERY high standard of proof is needed for this field to be used. For our purposes, this means that the subject claims it themselves. If in doubt, leave it out is a good rule-of-thumb. |
| genre (P136) | genre typically works in | Example: Yoon Ha Lee |
| Library of Congress Authorities 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), e.g., no2019050143 (no reference needed) |
| VIAF cluster ID (P214) | VIAF ID | Can be searched at: https://viaf.org/ (no reference needed); format should be numerical, such as: 5150565527606250501 |
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.
- If you are new to Wikidata, there have been two recent Wikidata Working Hours demonstrating basics:
- Wikidata Working Hour on June 6, 2022 demonstrating Wikidata basics: showing how to create items, add statements to items, add references, and use gadgets/user scripts
- Wikidata Working Hour on March 14, 2022 demonstrating Wikidata basics: showing how to create items, add statements to items, add references, and use gadgets/user scripts