Alexander WinklerJun 14, 2023

Dear #Wikidata community,

what are your favourite use-cases/applications of wikidata in the GLAM-field?

Your suggestions/ideas are very much appreciated!

@wikidata #openglam #GLAM

Show threadSandra Fauconnier

@awinkler @wikidata Modest, but it makes me happy: I'm seeing more and more adoption of @wikidata for #LOD purposes in GLAM databases, including Wikidata links on their websites. This is one of the long-term benefits of Wikidata as a commons: stable identifiers that interlink to the rest of the #LOD web. A few examples in the wild:

Archives of Africamuseum (Tervuren, BE) https://archives.africamuseum.be/agents/people/747
Biodiversity Heritage Library https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/creator/152834#/titles
MOMA https://www.moma.org/artists/6055

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Show threadAlexander WinklerJun 17, 2023
@spinster @wikidata lovely. These are also examples I am looking for: which GLAMs do refer to #Wikidata in terms of e.g. controlled vocabulary?
Show threadSandra FauconnierJun 17, 2023
@awinkler @wikidata I agree! I only gave a few examples that I tend to know, but it would be great to have a curated, editable list of these somewhere (on Wikidata?)!
Show threadAlexander WinklerJun 17, 2023
@spinster @wikidata not sure if the wikidata data model allows for this kind of information, but yes, I'd be definitely very interested in such a list. Maybe a google spreadsheet would do at the beginning?
Show threadAdrianJun 17, 2023
@awinkler We have matched uncontrolled spatial subjects labels in a regional bibliography to Wikidata and created a SKOS classification from it which is now maintained by catalogers in Wikidata. For more see https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/15875
We are very happy with this setup. @spinster @wikidata
How We Built a Spatial Subject Classification Based on Wikidata

From the fall of 2017 to the beginning of 2020 a project had been carried out to upgrade spatial subject indexing in North Rhine-Westphalian Bibliography (NWBib) from uncontrolled strings to controlled values. For this purpose, a spatial classification with around 4,500 entries was created from Wikidata and published as SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) vocabulary. [...]

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Show threadAlexander WinklerJun 17, 2023
@acka47 @spinster @wikidata interesting, thanks, especially the intermediary step between the catalogue and Wikidata. Do we often find Wikidata URIs themselves in the $0 MARC subfields?
Show threadAdrianJun 17, 2023
@awinkler @spinster @wikidata Not in our case. It's https://nwbib.de/spatial# URIs with a Q-ID attached...