Recording available on Wikimedia Commons

This is a White Rose Libraries co-hosted event at the University of York Library based around advocacy for the use of Wikidata within the research lifecycle. We are bringing together researchers and professionals from the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York as well as University of Exeter and Wikimedia UK to showcase the use of Wikidata, a free linked database of secondary data that can be read and edited by both humans and machines, in their research. 

The event will start with a presentation from Dr Martin Poulter, a trainer and adviser to academics, librarians, and other experts on how to work with open projects such as Wikidata and Wikipedia. He will be addressing the strengths of Wikidata for Digital Humanities. We will also be hosting two members of Wikimedia UK: Dr Richard Nevell, Programme Manager and Connected Heritage Programme Lead, and Dr Lucy Hinnie, Digital Skills Wikimedian. Dr Fran Allfrey, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Archaeology, University of York, will be talking to us about Medieval Wiki: learnings from editing wikidata with medieval scholars. Finally, Ruth Elder, Collections Management Specialist at the University of York, will give us an insight into the collaborative work with adding information to Wikidata from their respective university libraries’s theses repository.

Programme 

• 10:00- 10:10 - Introduction and housekeeping
• 10:10- 10:40 - Strengths of Wikidata for Digital Humanities, by Dr Martin Poulter - links to queries used in presentation
• 10:40- 11:05 - Humanities research and Wikidata, by Dr Lucy Hinnie - slides
• 11.05 - 11.25 - Wikidata and VocalEyes, by Dr Richard Nevell  - slides
• 11:25- 11:50 - Break
• 11:50- 12:10 - #MedievalWiki: reflections on a Wikidata workshop, by Dr Fran Allfrey - slides
• 12:10- 12:25 - Increasing discoverability: the Wikidata Thesis Project @ York (and beyond…), by Ruth Elder - slides