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Wikidata / GLAM
a few experiments...
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Commonwealth government agencies
- NAA creates unique ids for government agencies
- But how to link these to Wikidata?
- Created a Wikidata property for NAA ids
- Scraped data from RecordSearch
- Mapped links to Wikidata using Open Refine
- Added ids, dates, & relationships
- Uploaded new data using Quick Statements
NAA ids in Wikidata
- run this query in Wikidata
a timeline
explore relationships
change since 1901
Whitlam!
related resources...
- GLAM Workbench RecordSearch section
- GLAM Workbench Wikidata section
- blog post and video about the project
finding places in books
- Library of Congress Data Jam
- What could I do with 80,000 books?
- Extracted place names from the text
- Linked the place names to Wikidata
- Linked individual sentences to places
- Made a map!
books, sentences, places...
- data shared online using Datasette
choose your destination...
related resources...
- Data Jam slides and video
- Jupyter notebooks used to process the data
- code for the app
MARC place identifiers
- MARC Geographic Areas are used to identify locations in metadata
- But how can you link them to other geodata systems?
- Used OpenRefine to map the MARC codes to Wikidata
- Added ISO codes & GeoNames ids from Wikidata
- Shared the dataset
- Added the identifiers back into Wikidata entries
mapping codes to ids
- download the dataset from GitHub
MARC codes in Wikidata
- run the SPARQL query in Wikidata
for example...
- see the Trove Data Guide
connecting GLAM identifiers
- many GLAM ids are already used in Wikidata
- explored some of the linkages for ACDE
- what are the possibilities for exploration & analysis?
AusStage
DAAO
links to other GLAM-ish ids found through Wikidata
WD
lots of links!
- explore the data in Datasette
- view the code in Jupyter notebooks
Australian people ids
sport
arts & culture
Trove
ACMI
AustralianFootball.com
- view the code in the GLAM Workbench
galleries & artists
arts &
culture ids
arts intersections
- view the code in the GLAM Workbench
Australian Dictionary of Biography
- more than 14,000 links
- search by age?
ADB intersections
- view the code in the GLAM Workbench
- userscript gets links from Wikidata & adds them to ADB
adding context!
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WikiFest SLV 2025
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