Wikidata:WikiProject Linked Data for Production/Harvard Film Archive Project
BackgroundEdit
Describing filmmakers whose work is held by the Harvard Film Archive.
Contributors and Contact InformationEdit
- Fernsebner - Christine Fersebner Eslao, eslao@fas.harvard.edu
- Sradovsk - Susan Radovsky, sradovsk@fas.harvard.edu
- Teyilee - Te-Yi Lee, te-yi_lee@gse.harvard.edu
- HLLean - Leo Evangelista, evangel@fas.harvard.edu
- Tina.RuaHL - Albertina Rua, amrua@fas.harvard.edu
- Wheelerrd - Ryan Wheeler, rwheeler@fas.harvard.edu
- JBH23 - John Hostage, hostage@law.harvard.edu
- OliviaQuintana - Isabel Quintana, quintana@fas.harvard.edu
- Garcia Catherine - Catherine Garcia, garcia5@fas.harvard.edu
- June of PBH - June Rutkowski, rutkowsk@fas.harvard.edu
- Threadleaf050 - Mary Jane Cuneo, cuneo@fas.harvard.edu
- John Dickson04 - John Dickson, john_dickson@harvard.edu
Describing film directors, producers, screenwriters, and othersEdit
Before you begin, please familiarize yourself with Wikidata's guidelines concerning description of living people and err on the side of respecting privacy.
If the following properties are missing from an item, please add them for any person whose works are held by the Harvard Film Archive:
Essential propertiesEdit
Here's an example of an item that uses the following properties and references HOLLIS and other sources: Karen Aqua
| Property | Value | Usage note | Requires reference? |
|---|---|---|---|
| instance of (P31) | human (Q5) | This is required by Wikidata, and should be the first statement that you add to a new item. | no |
| occupation (P106) | film director (Q2526255), film producer (Q3282637), screenwriter (Q28389), or other values as appropriate | A person can have multiple occupations. It's best to add this (and instance of (P31)) before adding any other statements. | yes (you can use a HOLLIS record as a reference URL (P854)) |
| has works in the collection (P6379) | Harvard Film Archive (Q14715515) | This applies to anyone who contributed to work that's in the HFA collection. If the Harvard Film Archive's collections page includes a collection named for them, use archives at (P485) to create an additional statement. | yes (you can use a HOLLIS record as a reference URL (P854)) |
| on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008) | Harvard Film Archive Project (Q111249030) | This exists for tracking purposes. It's basically administrative metadata that indicates that the item was created or edited as part of our project, which gives us the ability to create lists and reports. | no |
| at least one identifier property (see table below for specific properties) | (see table below for lookups) | Add at least one identifier, if available. These are helpful for disambiguation, especially when there are very few other statements about an item, and may also help to establish the item's notability. The table below contains a non-exhaustive list of likely identifiers and their lookups. | no |
IdentifiersEdit
| Property | Value | Usage note | Requires reference? |
|---|---|---|---|
| BFI Films, TV and people ID (P4438) | Use Google to search name followed by site:https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/
(because BFI Filmography lookup is currently not returning results for a number of films and people with known BFI IDs) |
no | |
| ISNI (P213) | ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) lookup | A previous Harvard Library project generated ISNIs for large proportion of HFA filmmakers, so this may be your best bet | no |
| Library of Congress authority ID (P244) | Library of Congress Name Authority File lookup | no | |
| Union List of Artist Names ID (P245) | Getty ULAN (Union List of Artist Names) lookup | no |
If you are an experienced Wikidata editor creating many items manually, you may want to use the Film director Cradle form. (Despite the name, you can use this for producers, screenwriters, actors, composers, and other roles!) Make sure to log in first, and make sure you enter language (for label, alias, and so forth) as a two-character language code! A "create new item" button will appear at the bottom of the form after mandatory fields are filled in. References will need to be added to each new item after form submission.
Optional propertiesEdit
While entirely optional, consider using the following properties as applicable.
Please familiarize yourself with Wikidata's guidelines concerning description of living people and err on the side of respecting privacy.
The column header Value may be new entity? means "Might I need to create another Wikidata item to use this property, or should all the items I'd need to refer to exist already?" For example, for values for country of citizenship (P27) should be existing countries (unless there's a screenwriter who's founded an obscure new micronation), so it's marked as "no". Whereas employer (P108) might need to point to an organization that isn't yet represented in Wikidata; hence, "yes".
| Property | Value | Value may be new entity? | Usage note |
|---|---|---|---|
| archives at (P485) | Harvard Film Archive (Q14715515) or other institution holding the subject's archives | no | Harvard Film Archive's archival collections are listed here |
| award received (P166) | film awards | no | |
| country of citizenship (P27) | country | no | |
| date of birth (P569) | year or more specific date | no | |
| date of death (P570) | year or more specific date | no | |
| employer (P108) | organization for which the subject works or worked | yes | |
| family name (P734) | surname | yes | |
| filmography (P1283) | list of films person has directed | yes | |
| genre (P136) | film genre associated with this person | yes, but create sparingly | only include if the person is strongly associated with a genre, or if useful for disambiguating from a person with a similar name |
| given name (P735) | first name or another given name | yes | |
| image (P18) | photograph or other depiction of person on [Commons] | yes | if adding a new image to Commons, do that first! |
| influenced by (P737) | a person that influenced this person's films; see property definition for more specific related properties or search for other properties that may be applicable, such as student of (P1066) | yes | if making this claim, include a reference to a source that states the connection clearly |
| nominated for (P1411) | film awards | no | |
| notable work (P800) | works of significance among subject's works | yes | this is not intended to be an exhaustive list of the person's works |
| place of birth (P19) | most specific known (e.g. city instead of country) birth location | no | |
| place of death (P20) | most specific known (e.g. city instead of country) death location | no | |
| sex or gender (P21) | male (Q6581097), female (Q6581072), intersex (Q1097630), transgender female (Q1052281), transgender male (Q2449503), non-binary (Q48270), or other values that reflect an individual's self-identified gender | no | Do not add without referenceable sources. Do not make inferences based on names. When in doubt, omit. |
| spouse (P26) | a person that is or was married to this person; use unmarried partner (P451) for non-married companions | yes | may include date qualifiers |
Enabling the Recoin gadget will also suggest high-value properties based on a person's occupation.
Film descriptionEdit
| Property | Value | Value may be new entity? | Usage note | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| instance of (P31) | film (Q11424) or more specific instance type | no | 12 Angry Men (Q2345) <instance of> film (Q11424) | |
| genre (P136) | genre; to do: add tips for searching these here | yes, but create sparingly | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Q11621) <genre> science fiction film (Q471839) | |
| title (P1476) | title | yes | ||
| country of origin (P495) | no | |||
| publication date (P577) | year or more specific date | no | ||
| original language of film or TV show (P364) | language in which a film or a performance work was originally created | no |
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Based in part on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/Properties#Properties_for_films
If you are an experienced Wikidata editor creating many items manually, you may want to use the Film Cradle form for new items. Make sure to log in first, and make sure you enter language (for label, alias, and so forth) as a two-character language code! A "create new item" button will appear at the bottom of the form after mandatory fields are filled in. References will need to be added to each new item after form submission.
ReferencesEdit
| Property | Value | Value may be new entity? | Usage note |
|---|---|---|---|
| reference URL (P854) | url of web page, finding aid or finding aid description, catalog record, etc. | no | |
| stated in (P248) | item for reference source, such as HOLLIS (Q54862624) | yes | |
| retrieved (P813) | date or point in time that information was retrieved from a database or website (for use in online sources) | yes |
Tools to help automate some aspects of Wikidata work. The two most useful for adding references are currentDate and DuplicateReferences.
ResourcesEdit
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production/Practical_Wikidata_for_Librarians (one of the best places to start for all sorts of helpful basic information)
QueriesEdit
ListsEdit
Christine is working on this; please ignore!
This list is periodically updated by a bot. Manual changes to the list will be removed on the next update!
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