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 In a corollary project, Yale University Library, through the Wikidata for Digital Preservation project,66 is using Wikidata to store technical information about software preservation. Wikidata provides a way to model and create collaborative, responsive data that allows the software preservation community to reduce redundancies and maximize the sharing of work. Because Wikidata is a stable, collaborative project with a great deal of flexibility, it reduces barriers to collaboration and documentation that might make this work otherwise challenging.

How Can an Institution Get Started Adding Bibliographic Data to Wikidata?

Host workshops on Wikidata.67 Make micro-contributions by using existing external tools (for example through the Wikidata Distributed Game68 or through the Mix’n’match tool).69 Add archival holdings to existing Wikidata items using the “archives at” property.70 Create items for creators of archival collections and link them to your institution. Add missing descriptions to existing items in your language of preference.71 Particularly for institutions where ORCIDs are widely used, and/or VIVO is deployed, create items for individual faculty members at your institution (including identifiers to external data sources)72 and their publications. Integrate existing local name authorities or vocabularies that are important to your institution through the Mix’n’match tool. Batch-upload data. There is a well-documented process for identifying and uploading batches of data to Wikidata.73 Data sets that might be a good fit for Wikidata include: data about people or other institutional entities that are relevant to your collections; extended information about the institution itself (especially ARL White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations