Wikidata:WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/MIT

Aim and Scope edit

Be comfortable editing Wikidata manually, through Quickstatements, and using OpenRefine
Complete "archives at" work begun in January 2020 - adding "archives at" statements to already existing Wikidata items
Add MIT Schools, Departments, Labs, Centers to Wikidata
- Data model
Use work as examples at January 2020 [| Wikidata and Public Domain Day edit-a-thon]

Investigation in Wikidata application in MIT Libraries started in 2019 stemming from years of Wikipedia edit-a-thons and interest.
Intro to Wikidata presentation at metadata knowledge series
January 2020 edit-a-thon with Wikidata component, introduced adding "archives at" property to Wikidata items that already exist of people whose archives are at MIT Libraries. All manual edits, used for training purposes.

Greta Suiter (Processing Archivist) Gkuriger (talk) 16:17, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ben Abrahamse (Cataloging Coordinator)

Task	Status	Notes / links
Complete "archives at" work Manuscript collections	Done 12/2020	178 true matches
Practice editing with and check MIT Schools already in Wikidata	Done 11/2020	5 schools
Add DLC data: Confer w/ colleagues	Done 11-12/2020	Wikipedia experts, catalogers, processing team members
Add DLC data: Create model	Done 12/2020	Data model
Add DLC data: Compile DLC data in Excel	12/2020 - ongoing	48 (05/24/2021)
Add DLC data: Upload via QuickStatements	12/2020 - ongoing
Prep and co-host edit-a-thon	12/2020 - 1/2021	Done 1/8/2021