The following article was recently published by Code4Lib.
Title
Wikidata: A Platform For Your Library’s Linked Open Data
Authors
Stacy Allison-Cassin
York University
Dan Scott
Laurentian University
Source
The Code4Lib Journal
Issue 40, 2018-05-04
Abstract
Seized with the desire to improve the visibility of Canadian music in the world, a ragtag band of librarians led by Stacy Allison-Cassin set out to host Wikipedia edit-a-thons in the style of Art+Feminism, but with a focus on addressing Canadian music instead. Along the way, they recognized that Wikidata offered a low-barrier, high-result method of making that data not only visible but reusable as linked open data, and consequently incorporated Wikidata into their edit-a-thons. This is their story.
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