Wednesday, September 15, 9am PDT / 12pm EDT
The PCC Wikidata Pilot Project Team at University of Washington Libraries set a goal to create Wikidata items for all of their open-access institutional electronic theses and dissertations. While items for thesis authors, faculty, departments, and subjects have largely been created and edited by hand, the UW team is using a semi-automated workflow harnessing OpenRefine's schema extension to create batches of Wikidata items based on MARC21 metadata already in their catalog.
Crystal Clements of the University of Washington Libraries will demonstrate the workflow in detail, share useful tools and reusable code, and provide guidance for adapting the workflow for use with any MARC21-to-Wikidata project.
There will be plenty of time for Q&A and discussion. It will be a great opportunity to talk about any other participants' experiences with MARC-to-Wikidata workflows, compare notes on different approaches as well as their successes and challenges.
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