PCC Wikidata PilotIdentity Management in NACO Task Group

John Riemer, UCLAHilary Thorsen, Stanford

PoCo Meeting October 30, 2020

PCC Background

PCC’s 2018-2021 Strategic Directions document:

SD4: Accelerate the movement toward ubiquitous identifier creation and identity management at the network level --

PCC Background

“We aspire to attain an environment where identity management work activity is characterized by much greater proportions and numbers of entities receiving identifiers; many non-NACO institutions participating; and strategic partnerships and collaboration existing among cultural heritage organizations, rights management agencies, Wikidata, and others. We expect to find ways in a linked data environment where collaboration on identity management can interoperate across multiple data sources. Attainment of this vision will increase both human and machine usage of this data and its overall value.”

PCC Background

Collaborate with other identity management communities to facilitate and promote the use of unique identifiers.This pilot is sponsored by PCC, but it is definitely open to all.

Attractions to Working in Wikidata● File size: Almost 89M items*

● Scope: All types of entities

● Pool of Collaborators: 23.5K active contributors*

● Prospect of greater coverage of identifiers

● Existing gadgets/tools & skill set to create more

● Readily reusable data from the contributions

*Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Statistics

Learning Objectives

● Comparison to other registries

● Assessing productivity & QA tools

● Advisable training sources

● Learning the community’s culture

PCC Wikidata Pilot Participants

Fernsebner, CC BY-SA 4.0

Countries● Canada, Israel, Italy, Nigeria, Spain, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United States, Venezuela

71 participating institutions/projects total

About ⅓ are not currently PCC members

Pilot Participantshttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_PCC_Wikidata_Pilot/Participants

Experience Levels of Pilot Participants

Documentation

● WikiProject on Wikidata to easily share information amongst ourselves and with the Wikidata Community

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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_PCC_Wikidata_Pilot

Monthly Pilot Meetings● Kickoff

○ Background and goals; overview of pilot participants; project spotlight of Lori Robare’s work with Wikidata on her sabbatical; pilot infrastructure; getting started; open discussion

○ https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/pccidmgt/Wikidata+Pilot+Kick-off+meetings

● September○ Creating WikiProject pages and user pages; Wikidata policies; Reviewing the institutional

interests spreadsheet

● October○ Programs and Events Dashboard overview; discussion of using on focus list of Wikimedia

project (P5008) to track edits; share their activity and/or data tracking approaches

● November○ Lucas Mak on mapping MARC21 Authorities to Wikidata (work being undertaken in the PCC

Standing Committee on Applications)○ Matt Miller on his work related to Wikidata and id.loc.gov

Institutional Interests Spreadsheet

● Share project plans

● Find commonalities

● Share resources and expertise

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KPJu-EEkluBExLNHvRKM4Rxij49X1SbhKTFIIG0Mmfg/edit?usp=sharing

PCC Wikidata Pilot Campaign

● Programs and Events Dashboard

● Each institution can create their own dashboard

● Tracks edits by username over period of time

● All project dashboards are tracked by the Pilot campaign

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/pcc_wikidata_pilot/overview

Questions?