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Wikidata:WikiProject Women Writers in Review

Women Writers in Review (Q63683777)

NEU:WWiR edit

The Northeastern University (NEU) "Women Writers in Review" (NEU:WWiR) initiative "... is a collection of 18th- and 19th-century reviews, publication notices, literary histories, and other texts responding to works by early women writers. It is published by the Women Writers Project (WWP) at NEU. It was created as part of the Cultures of Reception initiative, which fosters research into the transatlantic reception and circulation of early women’s texts."[1] The collection includes 81 authors, 232 works, 138 periodicals, and 601 reviews. The Women Writers Online Scrabble Discovery Interface includes an additional 161 works.

WD:WWiR project edit

 
at LD4 conference, Boston, May 2019
 
at Wikimania, Stockholm, Aug 2019
at Wikimania, Stockholm, Aug 2019
 
at Wikidatacon, Berlin, Oct 2019
 
at WikiConference North America, Boston, Nov 2019
 
at LD4 conference, online, July 2020

Wikidata:WikiProject Women Writers in Review (WD:WWiR) is a Wikidata project created by Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (user:Rosiestep). It aims to import the NEU:WWiR into Wikidata, develop a methodology for how to describe items and relationships between them, and provide a new area of study for those with interests in university special collections or women's writing. Once it's completed, WD:WWiR can serve as a research tool, pedagogical resource, and case study in special collections integration models into Wikidata.

Using structured data to model the NEU:WWiR collection into Wikidata will provide opportunities for researchers to study the reception of this group of women's works by providing an opportunity for new, international perspectives.

WD:WWiR fits within the focus of Linked Data for Production's (LD4P) Wikidata initiative.[2]

WD:WWiR aims to collaborate with at least three other Wikimedia movement sister projects: Wikisource (WS:WWiR) (importation of the relevant Public Domain source documents), Wikicommons (WC:WWiR) (author photos; book cover and frontispiece images), and Wikipedia (WP:WWiR) (articles about the authors, works, periodicals).

https://w.wiki/X2e

Presentations

I first presented on this topic at the LD4 conference (May 2019, Boston, MA, USA),[3] seeking feedback from attendees if they thought it would be an area of interest to the special collections/structured data community. The positive responses led me to start work on WD:WWiR, including a new property proposal. I presented an update at Wikimania (July 2019, Stockholm, Sweden),[4] Wikidatacon (October 2019, Berlin, Germany),[5], and WikiConference North America (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA).[6]

Point of contact edit

Hi, I'm Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (user:Rosiestep). Since 2017, I have served as the Wiki Visiting Scholar in Northeastern University (NEU) Library Digital Scholarship Group, WWP.[7] My involvement with NEU:WWiR focuses on Wikidata-fying this special collection -an under-served area of research- through methodology development, data importation, data integration, and methodology development. I named the project: Wikidata:WikiProject Women Writers in Review (WD:WWiR).

On English Wikipedia, I am the founder of WikiProject Women Writers.[8] I am also the co-founder of Women in Red, a multi-language community of editors who create Wikipedia articles about women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues;[9] according to the WikiCouncil, it is the most active WikiProject on English Wikipedia. In 2016, it was shortlisted by ITU/UN Women for the GEM-TECH Award in the category "Apply Technology for Women’s Empowerment and Digital Inclusion". In 2018, I was knighted by Serbia in part because of my work within the wiki movement.

My motivations to work on this initiative include:

  1. it's unique (no one has done something like this before)
  2. this project is about women writers, their works, and the reception of their works
  3. if this case study is documented well, other institutions may be interested in donating their special collections in a similar way, so I feel a sense of responsibility to get this right
  4. I'm a woman writer (encyclopedist), my mom was a writer, my grandmother was a writer so maybe it's a part of my DNA to embark on th is

Please ping me if you are interested in participating in this unique endeavor!

See also Women Writers Project on English Wikipedia.[10]

To Do List edit

Import/harvest
  •   authors
  •   works
  •   periodicals
  • reviews
  • evaluations
Integrate
  • authors
  •   works
  •   periodicals
  • reviews
  • evaluations
Write-up methodology
  • authors
  • works
  • periodicals
  • reviews
  • evaluations
Other
  • Academic evaluations: The NEU evaluation system uses seven rating scores, and I need to have a clear understanding of how to convert NEU's rating scores to the best practice on Wikidata. The NEU rating scores are as follows: Very Positive, Somewhat Positive, Neutral, Somewhat Negative, Very Negative, and Mixed. Would it make sense to assign the following scores: VP (5/5), SP (4/5), Neutral (3/5), SN (2/5), and VN (1/5)? If not, what would be better? Also, what would be the appropriate numeric score if the NEU rating is "Mixed", meaning it contained some positive points and some negative ones?
  • Properties. Change review of (P6977) to evaluation of?
  • Search/add missing Authority Controls
  • Add PD statements to works where missing
  • Add Women Writers Online Scrabble Discovery Interface data?
To Do in wiki sister projects
  • Wikisource
  • Upload works available through Internet Archive, Hathitrust, etc.
  • Upload reviews available through Internet Archive, Hathitrust, etc.
  • Wikicommons
  • Upload images of authors, works (book covers, frontispieces) if available
  • Wikipedia
  • Create/improve articles about authors, works, periodicals which meet criteria of en.wiki policies

References edit

  1. ↑ "Women Writers in Review". www.wwp.northeastern.edu.
  2. ↑ "Wikidata:WikiProject Linked Data for Production - Wikidata". www.wikidata.org.
  3. ↑ "2019 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries - LD4P2 Linked Data for Production: Pathway to Implementation - LYRASIS Wiki". wiki.lyrasis.org.
  4. ↑ "Northeastern University's "Women Writers in Review" and the case for devloping a Wikidata model depicting Cultures of Reception". wikimania.wikimedia.org.
  5. ↑ "Wikidata:WikidataCon 2019/Program/Sessions/Lightning talks 1 - Wikidata". www.wikidata.org.
  6. ↑ "Wikidata-fying Northeastern University's "Women Writers in Review" initiative". wikiconference.org.
  7. ↑ "Welcome to our Wikipedia Visiting Scholar! – Digital Scholarship Group". dsg.neu.edu.
  8. ↑ "Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers". Wikipedia. 19 January 2020.
  9. ↑ "Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red". Wikipedia. 28 January 2020.
  10. ↑ "User:Rosiestep/WVS Northeastern University". en.wikipedia.org. 28 January 2020.

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