GLAM-WIKI 2015/Proposals/Museums' Linked Open Data publication with Wikidata

This is an accepted submission for GLAM-WIKI 2015.

Submission no. GW15.1017

Title of the submission

Museums' Linked Open Data publication with Wikidata

Type of submission

Pitch

Author of the submission

Barbara Dierickx

Country of origin

Belgium

Affiliation

PACKED vzw

E-mail address

barbarapacked.be

Username

Barbara_packed

Personal homepage or blog

http://wwww.packed.be

Twitter username

Facebook url

Abstract (How) Can Wikidata help you to spread information about your museum collection?

Detailed proposal PACKED vzw is a Belgian Centre of Expertise in Digital Heritage (non-profit). Currently we're running a project involving 7 museums (of contemporary and fine arts) whereby we're helping them to create persistent URI's for over 34.000 works of art they hold in their collections. Wikidata's Q-numbers have been used in one of the first project phases to identify artists having a Wikipedia page, and adding this info to the artwork record in the museum's system. We're now looking to not just enrich the museums' data, but also contribute it back to the Wiki community. Our aim is to submit the persistent URIs about these works of art to Wikidata. This would also allow the museums to publish Linked Open Data about their collection through an already existing infrastructure, while also enriching Wikipedia. The data would act as a placeholder on the work of art, eventually paving the way for actual content (not just data) contribution to Wikimedia. In this pitch session we want to a) explain our project proposal b) learn from Wikidata experienced users how we could go about handling this c) get to know Wikimedia-community people who want to work with us on realising this project (and yes, we have some funding).

Track

None of these above

Length of presentation/talk

10 Minutes + discussion

Target audience

We're looking for Wikidata entusiasts or volunteers with some degree of experience in the field of Wikidata data submission. Looking for tips&tricks to model our data and upload them to Wikidata.

Expected outcomes

We would get an insight in how Wikidata works/what is expected from the side of Wikimedia in a project like ours

Will you attend GLAM-WIKI 2015 if your submission is not accepted?

Yes, but only on Friday

Slides or further information (optional)

n/a

Special requests

Can only present on Thursday or Friday (i.e. NOT in the weekend)

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