Intersections with open knowledge: Wikidata at UVic Libraries

Description

Wikidata is a global collaboratively-edited knowledge base created by the Wikimedia Foundation. It was launched in 2012 to contain structured data (in the form of linked data) for use in other Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. This presentation will outline how Wikidata has been used in GLAM institutions around the world, how UVic Libraries has begun to integrate it into its archival and library metadata workflow, and discuss benefits and challenges related to Wikidata involvement.

Author

Elizabeth Bassett, Heather Dean, Dean Seeman

Author E-Mail

hdean@uvic.ca

Conference Year

2021
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Creating a search portal to BC government documents

Description

The session is an overview of the systems team’s implementation of a full-text search discovery platform for our online BC Government Publications collection using VuFind.

Author

Louise Brittain Boisvert

Author E-Mail

Louise.Boisvert@leg.bc.ca

Conference Year

2021
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We'll Get There Together: Launching Collections into the Future with Arca, BC's Collaborative Digital Repository

Description

Collaboration can be transformative and a key to future success, particularly for smaller libraries/memory organisations. Through collaboration and large-scale systemic design, Arca, BC's collaborative digital repository, creates equity across the province by putting an innovative discovery platform within reach for even the smallest organisations. Attendees of this panel session learnt about the transformative impact of Arca from BC GLAM sector participants who are using Arca to make their digital treasures searchable and accessible to their communities. They heard about the innovative collaboration models for Arca partnerships with the BC History Digitization Program and the Digitized Okanagan History Project.

Author

Sunni Nishimura

Author E-Mail

sunnin@bceln.ca

Conference Year

2019
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