@article{bianchini_beyond_2021, title = {Beyond {VIAF} Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries}, volume = {40}, issn = {0730-9295}, doi = {10.6017/ital.v40i2.12959}, abstract = {This paper aims to investigate the reciprocal relationship between {VIAF} (R) and Wikidata and their possible roles in the semantic web environment. It deals with their data, their approach, their domain, and their stakeholders, with particular attention to identification as a fundamental goal of Universal Bibliographic Control. After examining interrelationships among {VIAF}, Wikidata, libraries and other {GLAM} institutions, a double approach is used to compare {VIAF} and Wikidata: first, a quantitative analysis of {VIAF} and Wikidata data on personal entities, presented in eight tables; and second, a qualitative comparison of several general characteristics, such as purpose, scope, organizational and theoretical approach, data harvesting and management (shown in table 9). Quantitative data and qualitative comparison show that {VIAF} and Wikidata are quite different in their purpose, scope, organizational and theoretical approach, data harvesting, and management. The study highlights the reciprocal role of {VIAF} and Wikidata and its helpfulness in the worldwide bibliographical context and in the semantic web environment and outlines new perspectives for research and cooperation.}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Information technology and libraries}, author = {Bianchini, Carlo and Bargioni, Stefano and Pellizzari di San Girolamo, Camillo Carlo}, date = {2021}, note = {Place: {CHICAGO} Publisher: Amer Library Assoc}, keywords = {Comparative analysis, Computer Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Science \& Library Science, Libraries, Science \& Technology, Technology, {VIAF}, Wikidata}, file = {Full Text:C\:\\Users\\antal\\Zotero\\storage\\CEN4XYCP\\Bianchini et al. - 2021 - Beyond VIAF Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for A.pdf:application/pdf}, } @article{siler_beyond_2022, title = {Beyond the Fountain: Mapping a New Entry Point to the Society of Independent Artists}, volume = {41}, issn = {0730-7187}, doi = {10.1086/722172}, shorttitle = {Beyond the Fountain}, abstract = {“Beyond the Fountain” is a digital humanities project that creates a new entry point into the history of the Society of Independent Artists by utilizing data from its first exhibition catalog. The project seeks to align with the original democratic spirit of the show, giving each artist an equal opportunity to be discovered through an interactive map. Overall, the goal of “Beyond the Fountain” is to explore the Society of Independent Artists in a new way, with an emphasis on bringing lesser-known artists to light. This article highlights the tools and methods used for creating this map in order to encourage similar digital art history projects. © 2022 The Art Libraries Society of North America. All rights reserved.}, pages = {219--241}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Art Documentation}, author = {Siler, M.}, date = {2022}, keywords = {Wikidata}, } @article{alexiev_bulgarian_2020, title = {Bulgarian Icons in Wikidata and {EDM}}, volume = {10}, issn = {1314-4006}, url = {https://dipp.math.bas.bg/dipp/article/download/dipp.2020.10.2/pdf}, doi = {10.55630/dipp.2020.10.2}, abstract = {We briefly describe Wikidata, its importance for {GLAM} institutions, iconographic authorities in Mix-n-Match. Then we propose an Icon Knowledge Graph Model comprising the entities: iconographer, iconographic school, herminia, icon, measurements, material, technique, iconographic subject (saint or a title of the Virgin Mary), location (city, monastery, church, museum), scientific article, academic journal, issue, links to {LOD} datasets (e.g. {VIAF}, Getty {AAT}, {ISBN}, {ISSN}, academia.edu). Then we introduce the Virtual Encyclopedia of Bulgarian Icons ({BIDL}) and describe how we ex-ported it to Wikidata, while coreferencing to iconographers, saints, locations; and the extra info we added for such entities. Finally, we describe a conversion to the Europeana Data Model, including details such as links to Wikidata, bilingual descriptions, language tags, providers. The online version of the paper includes live links; the accompanying presentation includes more images and queries.}, pages = {45--63}, issue = {X}, journaltitle = {Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage}, author = {Alexiev, Vladimir and Tarkalanov, Plamen and Georgiev, Nikola and Pavlova, Lilia}, urldate = {2023-11-29}, date = {2020}, note = {Publisher: Институт по математика и информатика - Българска академия на науките}, keywords = {Cataloguing, Classification, Electronic information storage and retrieval, Fine Arts, {GLAM}, Icons, Knowledge Graphs, Library and Information Science, Museology \& Heritage Studies, Open- Refine, Performing Arts, Preservation, Semantic Integration, Visual Arts, Wikidata}, } @article{sardo_wikidata_2022, title = {Wikidata: a new perspective towards universal bibliographic control}, volume = {13}, issn = {2038-1026}, doi = {10.4403/jlis.it-12725}, shorttitle = {Wikidata}, abstract = {Traditional {UBC} provides for the standardization of bibliographic records, the creation of guidelines dedicated to national bibliographic agencies, the creation of the {UNIMARC} format, and the curation of authority data. Bibliographic Control has deeply evolved since {IFLA} theorization during the Seventies of the {XX} Century, due to the availability of a very large range of new bibliographic tools. At the beginning of the {XXI} century, {UBC} is quite different and involves new actors. Among these, Wikidata has a background greatly different from that of libraries as institutions: it is not devoted to bibliographic data, nor it is limited to personal authority control, but its value in {AC} tools like {VIAF} and National Libraries authority files is undiscussed.After a presentation on how Wikidata items describe and identify bibliographic entities, the authors underline how the existence, use and reuse of Wikidata affect the way the professional community thinks about {UBC}. Wikidata is a clear example of the need for a new approach to identification and description, that are deeply intertwined. Secondly, from a Wikidata perspective, the relevance of globally preferred and variant access points is lessened. Moreover, descriptions in Wikidata - although conceptually very similar to the traditional one - present differences and potentialities that a traditional description does not have and cannot have. Also from a theoretical perspective, Wikidata offers a pragmatic way to think globally and act locally. In fact, it shows that there is no need for one standardization of practices for establishing the headings and structure of authority records in one international form;.instead, users' convenience can be achieved by a technological infrastructure capable to present to each user the information about an entity in its own language and script. Additionally, Wikidata is the most evident example of the distributed and diffused approach of the semantic web to the issue of the universal identification of the entities. Also, Wikidata identification and description show that authority and bibliographic control must be tackled as just a part of the more general topic of the creation of a knowledge graph of all human knowledge by means of linked open data. Lastly, this objective cannot be achieved only by contribution, cooperation, and networking of large national agencies (as in {VIAF}), as a larger number of stakeholders must be involved to achieve a {UBC} also including the full indexing of any kind of scientific communication [Publisher's text].}, pages = {291--311}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {{JLIS}.it : Italian journal of library and information science}, author = {Sardo, Lucia and Bianchini, Carlo}, date = {2022}, note = {Place: Macerata Publisher: {EUM}-Edizioni Università di Macerata}, keywords = {Description, Identification, Metadata, {UBC}, Universal Bibliographic Control, Wikidata}, } @article{van_veen_wikidata_2019, title = {Wikidata: From “an” Identifier to “the” Identifier}, volume = {38}, issn = {0730-9295}, doi = {10.6017/ital.v38i2.10886}, shorttitle = {Wikidata}, abstract = {Library catalogues may be connected to the linked data cloud through various types of thesauri. For name authority thesauri in particular I would like to suggest a fundamental break with the current distributed linked data paradigm: to make a transition from a multitude of different identifiers to using a single, universal identifier for all relevant named entities, in the form of the Wikidata identifier. Wikidata (https://wikidata.org) seems to be evolving into a major authority hub that is lowering barriers to access the web of data for everyone. Using the Wikidata identifier of notable entities as a common identifier for connecting resources has significant benefits compared to traversing the ever-growing linked data cloud. When the use of Wikidata reaches a critical mass, for some institutions, Wikidata could even serve as an authority control mechanism.}, pages = {72--81}, number = {2}, journaltitle = {Information technology and libraries}, author = {van Veen, Theo}, date = {2019}, note = {Place: Chicago Publisher: American Library Association}, keywords = {Archives \& records, Authority control, Critical mass, Current distribution, Digital Object Identifiers, Digital preservation, Forecasts and trends, Knowledge organization, Libraries, Library automation, Library catalogs, Library collections, Linked Data, Management, Metadata, National libraries, Online databases, Open data, Retirement benefits, Semantic web, Semantics, Thesauri, Web portals, Wikidata} } @inproceedings{faraj_enriching_nodate, location = {Cham}, title = {Enriching Wikidata with Cultural Heritage Data from the {COURAGE} Project}, isbn = {978-3-030-36598-1}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-36599-8_37}, abstract = {Creating links manually between large datasets becomes an extremely tedious task. Although the linked data production is growing massively, the interconnecting needs improvement. This paper presents our work regarding detecting and extending links between Wikidata and {COURAGE} entities with respect to cultural heritage data. The {COURAGE} project explored the methods for cultural opposition in the socialist era (cc. 1950–1990), highlighting the variety of alternative cultural scenes that flourished in Eastern Europe before 1989. We describe our methods and results in discovering common entities in the two datasets, and our solution for automating this task. Furthermore, it is shown how it was possible to enrich the data in Wikidata and to establish new, bi-directional connections between {COURAGE} and Wikidata. Hence, the audience of both databases will have a more complete view of the matched entities.}, pages = {407--418}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, author = {Faraj, Ghazal and Micsik, András}, note = {Book Title: Metadata and Semantic Research {ISSN}: 1865-0929}, keywords = {Cultural heritage, Link disambiguation, Link discovery, Linked data, Wikidata}, } @inproceedings{rossenova_wikidata_2022, title = {Wikidata and Wikibase as complementary research data management services for cultural heritage data}, url = {https://serwiss.bib.hs-hannover.de/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/2573/file/rossenova_etal2022-wikidata_research_data_mgmt.pdf}, eventtitle = {The 3rd Wikidata Workshop, Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community, @ {ISWC} 2022,}, booktitle = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings}, author = {Rossenova, Lozana and Duchesne, Paul and Blümel, Ina}, date = {2022-10-24}, keywords = {Wikidata}, } @misc{doucet_wikipedia_2023, location = {{UNiversity} of Cambridge}, title = {Authority of knowledge: historians on Wikipedia in Higher Education}, rights = {cc\_by\_4}, url = {https://www.lilacconference.com/lilac-archive/lilac-2023-1}, shorttitle = {Authority of knowledge}, type = {conference}, howpublished = {conference}, note = {{LILAC}}, author = {Doucet, Delphine}, urldate = {2024-01-28}, date = {2023-04-20}, langid = {english} } @article{fagerving_wikidata_2023, title = {Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world}, volume = {5}, rights = {Copyright (c) 2023 Alicia Fagerving}, issn = {2704-1441}, url = {https://journals.uio.no/dhnbpub/article/view/10665}, doi = {10.5617/dhnbpub.10665}, shorttitle = {Wikidata for authority control}, pages = {222--239}, number = {1}, journaltitle = {Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications}, author = {Fagerving, Alicia}, urldate = {2023-11-29}, date = {2023-10-10}, langid = {english}, note = {Number: 1}, keywords = {Wikidata} } @unpublished{semic_2020_providing_2020, title = {Providing sustainable data services through Wikibase and Wikidata}, url = {https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/custom-page/attachment/2020-11/Parallel-track-4_B-Fischer_J-Thill_A-Angjeli%20final%20ppt.pdf}, author = {{SEMIC} 2020}, urldate = {2023-11-29}, date = {2020-10-15}, keywords = {Authority control, Luxemburg, Wikidata}, } @article{nielsen_environmental_2023, title = {Environmental impact assessment reports in Wikidata and a Wikibase: Semantic Technologies for Scientific, Technical and Legal Data 2023}, volume = {3443}, series = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings}, shorttitle = {Environmental impact assessment reports in Wikidata and a Wikibase}, abstract = {Environmental impact assessment ({EIA}) is a required process for projects in many countries, which results in the preparation and publication of a detailed report. Such {EIA} reports describe impacts on, e.g., humans and the environment. In this paper, we describe our efforts in modeling the metadata of {EIA} reports and their description of environmental impacts and mitigations with Wikidata and Wikibase. We show that it is possible to record the bibliographic metadata of Danish {EIA} reports and in doing so link it to the rest of the Wikidata knowledge graph, allowing multilingual search. With our dedicated instance of a Wikibase, we show how {EIA} reports and their associated projects along with activities, impacts, recipients, and mitigations can be represented and how we can show aggregated views of the data based on {SPARQL} templates so that users can explore the data and make efficient use of it.}, journaltitle = {Proceedings of the Semantic Technologies for Scientific, Technical and Legal Data 2023}, author = {Nielsen, Finn Årup and Lyhne, Ivar and Garigliotti, Darío and Butzbach, Annika and Boess, Emilia Ravn and Hose, Katja and Kørnøv, Lone}, date = {2023}, note = {Publisher: {CEUR}-{WS}}, keywords = {Environmental impact assessment, Wikibase, Wikidata}, }