User:Jneubert/Economists project

Aims at having the "most important" economists in Wikidata, in particular as a linking point for different external identifiers, such as GND/VIAF and RePEc.

April 2017
Create RePEc Top and RePEc Top Female Mix-n-match catalogs
Manually match to existing WD items
Generate items which are missing (from Repec top female list)
May 2017
Use external mapping for adding GND ID (P227) and RePEc Short-ID (P2428) identifiers
Add 12,000 GND identifiers derived from VIAF
Create catalog GND economists with more than 30 publications in EconBiz
Manually match to existing WD items
Generate missing items derived from the above mapping
October 2017
Generate items for all missing Repec entries from the above catalogs
July 2018
Update GND economists catalog with current data from EconBiz and GND (18,246 -> 19,739 entries)
Internship by User:Nantucket at ZBW, manually matching catalog entries