Wikidata:WikiProject The Women’s Library LSESuffrageInterviewsProject

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Introduction[edit]

The Women's Library LSE Suffrage Interviews project, beginning March 2023, intends to make metadata for the The Suffrage Interviews, otherwise known as Oral evidence on the suffragette and suffragist movements: the Brian Harrison interviews, available on Wikidata to increase the discoverability of this unique collection.

Aim and scope[edit]

Using metadata held by The Women's Library Archives at LSE the project aims to create or update Qids for all the person entities contained in the interviews (interviewees and all the people they talk about) as well as creating Qids for each of the interview recordings.

Project dashboards[edit]

Names data[edit]

All names associated with the project have been given a P5008 statement on the focus list of Wikimedia project The_Women’s_Library_LSESuffrageInterviewsProject

By recording as many names as possible the project potentially brings to light new connections or relationships and widens research possibilities. This list identifies all names that have a connection to the project https://w.wiki/9Bc4.


These names can be further broken down into 4 categories, which will support more detailed research. Determining the category into which each person falls is supported by the data model for Qids representing each individual interview.

  • Category 1: People who were notable in the suffrage movement and have been interviewed about themselves.

https://w.wiki/7y$f (Names in personLabel column)

Category 1 people with a Wikipedia page https://w.wiki/7$zB

Category 1 people with a Wikimedia Commons image https://w.wiki/9Du5 (Note multiple images for some individuals which allows linking to each of the different interviews they gave). For images alone see https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/Z5YTxmwCW0Es2u2kIiiqysuSu4ougSeG6CiaO4C4gCS where you will need to run the query using the blue triangle on the bottom left of the page. 

The interview participant is also named as the main subject of the interview - eg suffrage interview with Connie Lewcock
  • Category 2: People who were notable in the suffrage movement and a family member or friend has been interviewed about the notable person.

https://w.wiki/7y$R (Names in subjectLabel column)

Category 2 people with a Wikipedia page https://w.wiki/7$zQ

Category 2 people with an image in Wikimedia Commons https://w.wiki/9Dqx 

The person named as the main subject of the interview is not the interview participant – eg suffrage interview with Fiona Billington Greig
  • Category 3: People who were not notable in the suffrage movement themselves, or were on its fringes, but were interviewed about a notable family member or friend.

https://w.wiki/7y$a (Names in personLabel column)

Category 3 people with a Wikipedia page https://w.wiki/7$za

Category 3 people with an image in Wikimedia Commons https://w.wiki/9Dr4 

The interview participant is not named as a main subject of the interview - eg suffrage interview with Fiona Billington Greig
  • Category 4: People who have been mentioned during the course of an interview.

https://w.wiki/7ykE (Names in personLabel column)

Category 4 people with a Wikipedia page https://w.wiki/7$zh

Category 4 people with an image in Wikimedia Commons https://w.wiki/9DrN (Note multiple images for some individuals which allows linking to the different interviews in which the individual was mentioned). 

The person is listed as a P3342 significant person in the Qid for an interview – eg Charlotte Despard or Donald Munro-Ashman in the suffrage interview with Dorothy Adams about Anna Munro

SPARQL queries[edit]



All the visualisations below link LSE metadata with other data available in Wikidata, and so results are not necessarily complete. Wikidata evolves continually and so these datasets will change over time - please re-visit periodically to see if further relationships and connections have been exposed!


  • Graph of all individuals connected to the Suffrage Interviews and institutions holding their archives https://w.wiki/6c73
  • Graph of people who were notable in the suffrage movement & interviewed about themselves and institutions holding their archives https://w.wiki/84uR
  • Graph of all individuals connected to the Suffrage Interviews and institutions holding their oral history https://w.wiki/9BhX


  • Graph, with images where available, of awards won by all individuals connected to the Suffrage Interviews https://w.wiki/6dfi
  • Table of awards won by individuals connected to the Suffrage Interviews https://w.wiki/6dfg


  • Bubble chart showing occupations of all individuals connected to the Suffrage Interviews https://w.wiki/9BkL
  • Bubble chart showing occupations of individuals interviewed as part of the Suffrage Interviews project https://w.wiki/9Bm3
  • Bubble chart showing employer of all individuals connected to the Suffrage Interviews https://w.wiki/9BmB
  • Bubble chart showing employer of individuals interviewed as part of the Suffrage Interviews https://w.wiki/9BmG
  • Bubble chart showing educational establishments attended for all individuals connected to the Suffrage Interviews https://w.wiki/9DMq
  • Bubble chart showing educational establishments attended for individuals interviewed as part of the Suffrage Interviews https://w.wiki/9DMy


Maps[edit]


Images & Timelines[edit]

  • See also image grids for each person category in Names data above
  • Image grid of all individuals connected with the Suffrage Interviews project, where available in Wikimedia Commons https://w.wiki/9DNF
  • Image grid of individuals who gave an interview, where available in Wikimedia Commons https://w.wiki/9DqX


Tasks[edit]

  • Stage 0: Project prep (Complete March 2023)
    • Data Protection Impact Assessment (Complete March 2023)
    • Create project page and project Qid (Complete March 2023)


  • Stage 1: Create Qids for all person entities not yet represented in Wikidata (Complete April 2023)
    • Automate Qid creation for basic person metadata (Complete April 2023)
    • Include oral history at and on focus list of (Complete April 2023)


  • Stage 2: Enhance person Qids related to the project (Complete August 2023)
    • Enhance new and existing Qids with interview and authority free text fields (Complete August 2023)
    • Enhance new and existing Qids with images (less images available than anticipated. Complete August 2023 - as far as possible using existing Commons or Flickr images)


  • Stage 3: Create Qids for each interview contained within the project (complete November 2023))
    • Automate Qid creation for basic interview metadata, with links to name Qids (Complete July 2023)
    • Enhance interview Qids using free text CALM metadata (complete November 2023)
    • Automate addition of significant names where contained in biographical info (complete November 2023)
    • Investigate enhancing significant names using transcript metadata (on hold December 2023)


  • Stage 3a: Restructured interview data to support the splitting of project names into 4 categories (complete October 2023)
    • SPARQL queries to identify names in each category (complete November 2023)


  • Stage 4: Wikipedia - Add links to interviews on relevant Wikipedia pages for individuals/topics
    • Create template text for each category of person above (in progress December 2023)
    • Using the SPARQL generated lists for people with Wikipedia pages, in each category, edit Wikipedia pages to provide relevant information about the suffrage interviews project and relevant interviews, with appropriate hyperlinks and references.
    • Investigate organisations mentioned in suffrage interviews and any useful information which could be contributed to Wikipedia.


  • Stage 5: SPARQL queries (in progress October 2023)
    • SPARQL queries to support interrogation of the metadata
    • SPARQL queries to support potential discovery of unexpected connections and relationships


  • Stage 6: Widen scope (in progress November 2023)
    • Search for overlap between names on focus list of Suffrage Interviews project and Beyond Notability project (Analysis run November 2023, but no overlap)
    • Investigate potential links with Women in Red WikiProject
    • Investigate using Wikidata and CALM metadata to create Wikipedia pages for notable people related to the project.

Related links[edit]

The_Women's_Library_LSESuffrageInterviewsProject represented on Scholia https://scholia.toolforge.org/wikiproject/Q117322976

Participants[edit]

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