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Local 496:

New Orleans Jazz History in Wikidata

Hogan Jazz Archive + Semantic Lab at Pratt

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November 8, 2019 | Sarah Adams on behalf of the Semantic Lab at Pratt�Made possible by the support of the Community Partnership Grant from The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival & Foundation, Inc.

http://bit.ly/Local496WikidataSlides2019

Semantic Lab

at Pratt Institute

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  • Semantic Lab at Pratt + Linked Open Data�
  • About Wikidata�
  • A Wikidata Item�
  • Querying Wikidata

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Need a Wikidata account?�Talk to Sarah!

  • Local 496 Directory�
  • Editing Wikidata [!]�
  • Questions? / Resources

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WHAT IS WIKIDATA?

Wikidata is a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary database, collecting structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other wikis of the Wikimedia movement, and to anyone in the world.

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Every wikipedia page has a wikidata item, but not every wikidata item has a wikipedia page

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Tabular Data in (Siloed) Relational Databases

  • Difficult for search engines to query
  • Relationships are defined by primary / foreign keys
  • Requires new columns and/or new match tables to add more attributes to a given record

Linked Open Data on the Web

  • Accessible by anyone
  • Relationships between data explicitly defined
  • More flexible data structure allows you to make statements about one particular item at a time without changing the entire data structure

WIKIDATA +

LINKED OPEN DATA

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René Laloux

Fantastic �Planet

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SUBJECT

OBJECT

PREDICATE

ITEM

VALUE

PROPERTY

WIKIDATA +

LINKED OPEN DATA

René Laloux (Q958483)

https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q958483

Fantastic Planet (Q477687)

https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q477687

director (P57)

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P57

← Linked Open Data

Wikidata

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SUBJECT

PREDICATE

ITEM

PROPERTY

WIKIDATA +

LINKED OPEN DATA

Must be Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

OBJECT

VALUE

Sweet Emma Barrett (Q7655300)

www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7655300

nickname (P1449)

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1449

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SUBJECT

OBJECT

PREDICATE

ITEM

VALUE

PROPERTY

WIKIDATA +

LINKED OPEN DATA

Can be URI or a literal

“Sweet Emma” (en)

Sweet Emma Barrett (Q7655300)

www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7655300

nickname (P1449)

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1449

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WIKIDATA ITEMS

  • Used to represent all the things in human knowledge, including topics, concepts, and objects. �
  • For example, the "1988 Summer Olympics", "love", "Elvis Presley", and "gorilla" are all items in Wikidata.�
  • Wikidata items should be notable and unique*

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Items

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A WIKIDATA ITEM

Sweet Emma Barrett (Q7655300)�www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7655300

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“FINGERPRINT” DATA

Label

Description

Aliases

Item Identifier (“Q” ID or QID)

← Can search on aliases and/or foreign language labels.

Further reading:

Godby, Jean, Karen Smith-Yoshimura, Bruce Washburn, Kalan Davis, Karen Detling, Christine Fernsebner Eslao, Steven Folsom, Xiaoli Li, Marc

McGee, Karen Miller, Honor Moody, Holly Tomren, and Craig Thomas. 2019. Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage. Dublin, OH: OCLC Research. https://doi.org/10.25333/faq3-ax08.

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In addition to references, a statement can have a qualifiers, which annotate or enhance a statement:

STATEMENTS

Property

Statement Group

Value

Reference

Academic major + date qualifiers on education statement for Noam Chomsky →

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“Potentially, Wikidata can be used as a "biographical spine", bringing together identifiers from a number of major biographical resources, digital history projects, and authority databases… ” (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Biographical_Identifiers)

IDENTIFIERS

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Special Sitelinks connect an item to corresponding content

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“Special Sitelinks connect an item to corresponding content on

client wikis, such as Wikipedia, Wikibooks or Wikiquote.” (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Introduction)

SITELINKS

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WIKIDATA QUERY SERVICE

�https://query.wikidata.org/

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Info on this slide from Rob Hudson, archivist at Carnegie Hall

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[[ Haven’t yet created a Wikipedia/Wikidata account? Talk to Sarah! ]]

Local 496: New Orleans Jazz History in Wikidata

Made possible by the support of the Community Partnership Grant from The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival & Foundation, Inc.

http://bit.ly/Local496WikidataSlides2019

Semantic Lab

at Pratt Institute

Twitter: @semlabteam | @_sarahannadams

www.semlab.io

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LOCAL 496 - THE DIRECTORY

410 individuals in address directory �387 individuals in instrument list�418 unique individuals [not every member listed in both sections]

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Howard-Tilton Memorial Library Catalog URL : http://�tulprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TUL_VOYAGER966417&vid=2018&lang=en_US&context=L

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Wikidata Item : www.wikidata.org/entity/Q66948585

Membership directory, American Federation of Musicians. Local 496 (New Orleans, La.), courtesy of Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University

MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY /

American Federation of Musicians. Local 496 (New Orleans, La.)

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LOCAL 496 - MAPPING RESIDENCES

GeoNames locations for Members’ New

Orleans residencies, tagged “Local496”

Working SemLab Google Site for Documentation of Local 496 Work

Visualizing the Local 496

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LOCAL 496 - TODAY’S WORKSHEET

Link → ✨ LOCAL 496 Wikidata Googlesheet ✨

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Add your initials to one of the first

21 records and follow along!

CREATING AN ITEM TOGETHER

Link → ✨ LOCAL 496 Wikidata Googlesheet ✨

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LET’S EDIT!

< Local 496 Options >

< Other Options >

Games!

Article/URL

  • Find an interesting article and add information to wikidata as you go
  • Example: what can be added to Wikidata from the website Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds ?�

Hunt + Peck

  • Find a topic that interests you and see what the related Wikidata item might be missing. What does the item for your home town look like? Do you have a famous relative?
  • (Remember you’ll still need references!)

__ To Add (21) __

  • Person not yet added to Wikidata�

__ To Update / Enhance (388) __

  • Update member of (P463)
  • Any other enhancements! (Images?)�

__ To Confirm Gender (388) __

  • SemLab added gender based on name → confirm or update gender�

__ To Disambiguate (9) __

  • Is column F URI same person as column D?

Link → ✨ LOCAL 496 Wikidata Googlesheet ✨ [Add initials to column A; reference = stated in (P248) Q66948585]

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  • Wikidata Presentations on Slideshare: http://bit.ly/WikidataSlideshare �
  • Wikipedia and Wikidata Integration Project Page: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikipedia�
  • Wikidata Query Service: https://query.wikidata.org/�
  • Mass Wikidata edits? → Use Quickstatements or OpenRefine 3.0�
  • Wikidata vs. Wikibase →
    • What’s the Difference? Why use a Wikibase rather than Wikidata?
    • Semantic Lab + Wikibase // MoMA + Wikibase

QUESTIONS / RESOURCES / ETC.

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Local 496

New Orleans Jazz History in Wikidata

Hogan Jazz Archive < - > Semantic Lab at Pratt

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November 8, 2019 | Sarah Adams, M. Cristina Pattuelli, Jeff Rubin

Made possible by the support of the Community Partnership Grant from The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival & Foundation, Inc.

< THANK YOU! >

http://bit.ly/Local496WikidataSlides2019

Semantic Lab

at Pratt Institute

@semlabteam | foaf.Person@semlab.io �@cristinapattuel | mcpattuelli@gmail.com �@_sarahannadams | s.ann.adams5761@gmail.com

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