Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Wikidata Working Hours/Wikidata Working Hour Summer-Fall Project 2022/2022-September-30 Wikidata Working Hour

September 30, 2022 Wikidata Working Hour edit

Friday, September 30, 2022 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 7:00pm CEST (Time zone converter)

Recording edit

Recording: https://stanford.zoom.us/rec/share/kjhrhntzKjApOahwO9OkkbEy7U6XEa43dHFpF2U_E5VDdqwRfdMrvnOxjPXiEFKy.TZpIBt6abYkzdV0o?startTime=1664556094000

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Background edit

Over the summer and into the early fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by adding data about diverse children’s books from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, love children’s books, or have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to.

The seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be an open editing review session for contributors and publishers.

Relevant Wikidata Policies and guidelines edit

Guidelines for Labels

Guidelines for Aliases

Guidelines for Description

Wikidata Living Person Policy - As you edit, please be cognizant of Wikidata's guidelines concerning description of living people and err on the side of respecting privacy.

Contributors edit

Contributor Examples edit

Creating Contributor Items edit

We'll be looking at the reconciled spreadsheet to determine what names to create in Wikidata. We will be creating names for those contributors who do not already have a Wikidata record.

Steps:

  1. Open this Google spreadsheet
  2. Claim a contributor name (either author or illustrator) that doesn't yet exist in Wikidata (no Q number next to it) by filling in your initials in the adjacent column.
  3. Search the name in Wikidata to double-check that it hasn't been created.
  4. Click "Create a new item" to start the creation process.
  5. The data model below has been created as a basic guide. Feel free to supplement with any relevant fields.
  6. Once your item has been created, add its QID to the Wikidata QID column.
Basic statements edit
Property Value Usage note
Label Person's name as most commonly known Recommended to search name in web browser to see if that's the common usage
Alias Other form of name in use or previously used
Description based on predominant field of work Guidelines: Some examples: American writer, Pakistani-American writer
instance of (P31) human (Q5) no reference needed
occupation (P106) children's writer (Q4853732) also include any other roles
Optional statements edit
A Note on creating Ethnicity Statements edit
  • The documentation for this property suggests that these statements, given their potential sensitivity, require a high standard of proof, such as if the contributor has made this statement about themselves (and the Wikidata statement is properly documented with a reference). An example of a reference could be this declaration about themselves in the contributor's bio from their website.
Property Value Usage note
official website (P856) website if they have one no reference needed, but specify retrieved (P813), language of work or name (P407)
languages spoken, written or signed (P1412) languages spoken, written or signed no reference needed, but specify retrieved (P813), language of work or name (P407)
educated at (P69) Often institution at which you've had highest degree Add qualifiers below as per information available; Example: Kelly Yang
educated at (P69) academic degree (P512), academic major (P812) academic degree and major
educated at (P69) start time (P580), end time (P582), point in time (P585) Use start & end time if known, else just point in time for year or date degree awarded
described at URL (P973) if an author is described in another resource Example: Zetta Elliott
award received (P166) award dependent on whether it exists in Wikidata; Example: Onjali Q. Raúf
country of citizenship (P27) country of citizenship if known and verified
ethnic group (P172) ethnic group subject's ethnicity (consensus is that a VERY high standard of proof is needed for this field to be used. For our purposes, this means that the subject claims it themselves. If in doubt, leave it out is a good rule-of-thumb.
genre (P136) genre typically works in Example: Yoon Ha Lee
Library of Congress authority ID (P244) LCCN from national authority record Can be searched at: https://id.loc.gov/ ; Format should be 1 or 2 letters and then numbers (no spacing), e.g., no2019050143 (no reference needed)
VIAF ID (P214) VIAF ID Can be searched at: https://viaf.org/ (no reference needed); format should be numerical, such as: 5150565527606250501

Publishers edit

Publisher Examples edit

Penguin Random House

Simon & Schuster

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Candlewick Press

Imprint or Publisher? edit

The publisher column in the spreadsheet contains both publishers and imprints. What is the difference?

One way to think of an imprint is that it's often similar to a series in that it brings titles together under a theme. The Wikipedia definition of imprint specifies it is a trade name under which publishers often market titles to specific demographics. Wikidata's description of imprint is "trade name under which works are published; a publishing division of a publishing company." However, unlike series, an imprint is much more than just a phrase put on books: it is its own entity that is part of the larger publisher, often with dedicated editors.

A good example is Beach Lane, which specifies a location and date of inception and only the copyright statement at the very bottom (or the URL) provides a clue that this might be an imprint. If you look at this Worldcat record for "Mother Goose Goes to India", you can see a number of editions identify "Beach Lane Books" in the MARC subfield that usually contains the publisher's name.

Like many elements of metadata work, you may have to research some of the names as well as use your own judgement as to whether a given corporate name can be considered an imprint or a publisher! We will often be specifying the imprints under the publisher property later on when we create items for the books since they are considered in the library sphere as the entities who have "published" the titles.

Creating Publisher Items edit

We'll be looking at the reconciled spreadsheet to determine what publishers/imprints to create in Wikidata that do not already have a Wikidata record. Alternatively you can review ones with existing Wikidata records to see if they need enhancement.

Steps:

  1. Open this Google spreadsheet of publishers which have been pulled from the master spreadsheet.
  2. Claim a publisher by filling in your initials in the adjacent column.
  3. Search the publisher's name in a search engine to obtain more information.
  4. Search the publisher's name in Wikidata to double-check that it hasn't been created (for creation purposes). Or if would like to enhance an already existing publisher, you can search by the Q# adjacent to the name.
  5. If creating a new name, click "Create a new item" to start the creation process.
  6. The data model below has been created as a basic guide. Feel free to supplement with any relevant fields.
  7. Once your item has been created, add its QID to the Wikidata QID column (no need to manually add the other fields to the spreadsheet, they could be pulled in later if necessary by reconcilation).
Basic statements edit
Property Value Usage note
Label Publisher's name as most commonly known Recommended to search in web browser to see how they identify themselves
Alias Other form of name in use or previously used
Description based on predominant field of work Guidelines: Some examples: multinational conglomerate publishing company, imprint by Macmillan
instance of (P31) what class this corporation is a member of book publisher (Q1320047), business (Q4830453), imprint (Q2608849)
industry (P452) what industry the corporate name operates under publishing (Q3972943)
country (P17) country of incorporation only one value is prefered
parent organization (P749) points to the parent organization especially relevant for imprints, example, see Feiwel and Friends
has subsidiary (P355) points to subsidiary companies, such as imprints example, see Crown Publishing Group
official website (P856) website if they have one no reference needed, but specify as qualifiers retrieved (P813), language of work or name (P407)
Optional statements edit
Property Value Usage note
inception (P571) date of establishment, when an entity begins to exist Example: 1991, (Feiwel and Friends)
headquarters location (P159) If in United States, can be city Example: Somerville, (Feiwel and Friends)
VIAF ID (P214) VIAF ID can search at viaf.org, example: 156296327, (Feiwel and Friends)
Library of Congress authority ID (P244) LCCN from national authority record Can be searched at: https://id.loc.gov/ ; Format should be 1 or 2 letters and then numbers, no spacing, no reference needed, Example: no2005044873 (Feiwel and Friends)
official name (P1448) Official name from an authoritative source Reference needed; Example: Candlewick Press, Inc. (English)(Candlewick Press)


Add references for author and publisher items edit

References edit

Most statements on Wikidata should be verifiable in some source of information. They point to a source that supports the data in a statement. References have a property and value like statements. The value is the source. The property is usually:

  stated in (P248) for publications and media
  reference URL (P854) for websites and online databases

References are not required in some circumstances: edit

  • Statement represents common knowledge that isn’t under dispute, such as author is an instance of human or Stephen King is a writer
  • Statement refers to an external source of information that can be easily verified, such as ORCID identifiers
  • Item itself is a source for the statement

References for Websites edit

The most common sources in Wikidata are probably websites. Use reference URL (P854) with the website as the value and retrieved (P813) with the date you accessed the website.

Steps for Adding References edit

  1. Click the "add reference" for any appropriate statement lacking references
  2. Enter a property, usually "reference URL"
  3. Paste the value (URL in this case)
  4. Click the "add" button to add the date retrieved
  5. Enter that property and then the date retrieved (if you have selected the currentDate gadget, it should automatically fill in the date)

Helpful Resources about References edit

Resources edit

  • Today's Working Hour is part of a special series of sessions involving a single data set. You don't have to attend every session to be part of the project, but you can find details about the whole series here.
  • If you are new to Wikidata, there have been two recent Wikidata Working Hours demonstrating basics: