Wikidata:WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/Illinois State University

Aim and Scope

The Illinois State University PCC Wikidata Pilot Project will create Name Authority Records (NARs) and Wikidata items for performers (with a focus on performers from underrepresented and marginalized groups) from circus route books digitized as part of a 4 year CLIR grant. NARs and Wikidata items for some circuses will be created where it will benefit disambiguation or they are judged significant.

Background

This project is the culmination of a $268,139 Digitizing Hidden Collections CLIR Grant received by Milner Library Special Collections at Illinois State University, the Robert L. Parkinson Library & Research Center at Circus World Museum, and The Ringling Archives. The project initially created high quality scans of over 300 circus route books and included keyword searching capability.

This portion of the project will undertake disambiguation of circus performer names and create Library of Congress Name Authority Records (NAR) for the names. The scope includes the most cited performer names and those of notability in the collection. Our attention will also concentrate on performers from historically underrepresented and marginalized groups. We will also contribute these performer names to Wikidata.

Contributors

Angela Yon, Cataloging & Metadata Librarian / Username:baoguo (talk)

Pete Steadman, Serials Cataloging Specialist / Username:PeterJSteadman (talk)

Mariah Wahl, Project Assistant / Username:mkwahl (talk)

Liz Hartman, Project Assistant / Username:bibliorg (talk)

Eric Willey, Special Collections and Formats Cataloger / Username:emwille (talk)

Workflow

Bibliographic records for digitized route books will be created, and Name Authority Records created based on those records.

Project Assistants will perform research to establish and disambiguate personal and corporate identities, and create NARs and Wikidata items describing performers.

LCCN numbers will be included in Wikidata items, and when approved for use the MARC 024 field will be included in NARs to create 5-star linked data.

Tasks

Core Properties for Performers:

Property	Value	Usage note
Label	Name as given in MARC 100 or 600 field	language = English
Also known as	Consider adding 400 fields here per Wikidata guidelines (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Aliases)	language = English
instance of (P31)	Human
date of birth (P569)
date of death (P570)
place of birth (P19)
place of death (P20)
field of work (P101)
occupation (P106)	circus performer (Q17307272)
languages spoken, written or signed (P1412)
pseudonym (P742)
Library of Congress authority ID (P244)

Core Properties for Circuses:

Property	Value	Usage note
Label	Name as given in MARC 110 or 610 field	language = English
Also known as	Consider adding 410 fields here per Wikidata guidelines (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Aliases)	language = English
instance of (P31)	circus (Q47928)
industry (P452)	entertainment (Q173799)
field of work (P101)	circus (Q47928)