Wikidata:WikiProject University of Maryland Libraries

This page is the main home for Wikidata editing projects at the University of Maryland Libraries. From 2020-2022, we carried out the SCUA/SCPA archival names project, and in 2025 we began the DRUM scholars project.

Best practices

Local practices

External resources

Recommendations of the Archives Linked Data Interest Group, in particular:
- Describing People
- Describing Organizations
WikiProject Music (includes recommended properties for musicians, ensembles, and musical works)
Penn State University Libraries' WikiProject page
Other WikiProject Libraries pages
Practical Wikidata for Librarians (tips for getting started and setting preferences, plus lots of tools and gadgets to enhance your editing capabilities, collected by the LD4P program)

Wikidata resources

Notability requirements
Basic membership properties (discussion of instance of (P31), subclass of (P279), and part of (P361))
Sources and references
Main Wikidata help page
Wikidata policies and guidelines

Participants

The following editors have contributed to at least one Wikidata editing project at the UMD Libraries. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list! Many people from the Libraries have participated, and we greatly value their contributions.

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The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:
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Sehovde (talk) 19:41, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
Dhneil (talk) 19:59, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
Squintil (talk) 21:04, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
Beth Iseminger (talk) 21:17, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
Starker rules (talk) 22:52, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
Jadoherty (talk) 17:53, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
BethGuay (talk) 21:35, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
Osccequable (talk) 20:04, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
RobinReiss (talk) 14:54, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

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