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 About ARL

The (ARL) is a nonprofit membership organization of libraries and archives in major public and private universities, federal government agencies, and large public institutions in the US and Canada. ARL advances research, learning, and scholarly communication, fosters the open exchange of ideas and expertise, promotes equity and diversity, and pursues advocacy and public policy efforts that reflect the values of the library, scholarly, and higher education communities. ARL forges partnerships and catalyzes the collective efforts of research libraries to enable knowledge creation and to achieve enduring and barrier-free access to information.1

ARL Task Force on Wikimedia and Linked Open Data

Stacy Allison-Cassin, York University

Alison Armstrong, Ohio State University

Phoebe Ayers, MIT; former trustee. Wikimedia Foundation

Tom Cramer, Stanford University

Mark Custer, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Yale University

Mairelys Lemus-Rojas, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Sally McCallum, Library of Congress

Merrilee Proffitt, OCLC Research

Mark A. Puente, Association of Research Libraries

Judy Ruttenberg, Association of Research Libraries

Alex Stinson, Wikimedia Foundation

Contributors and Editors

The ARL Task Force on Wikimedia and Linked Open Data made a draft of this paper available for public comment from November 19 through November 30, 2018. Many people (librarians. Wikimedians, and others) provided valuable and constructive feedback including the following: ARL White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations