{"code":"QQUAEG","speakers":[{"code":"9DDKP7","name":"Alessandro Marchetti","biography":"member of WikiClassics User Group, Wikimedia Italia, Wikimedia Switzerland, also active in the past in WikiDonne user group, Wikimedia Sweden and Wikimedia Portugal; coordinator for Wiki Loves Monuments in Tuscany, coordinator for Wiki Science Competition.\r\n\r\nHe is currently primarily active with Wikimedia Switzerland.","avatar":"https://app.eventyay.com/talk/media/avatars/EsV-1817sq_WhlYhi0.jpg","avatar_source":"I asked a friend to take it, I haven't uploaded it yet on Commons","avatar_license":""},{"code":"KSDMAN","name":"Camillo Pellizzari","biography":null,"avatar":null,"avatar_source":null,"avatar_license":null}],"title":"Wikidata and authority control for researchers: the cases of Switzerland and Italy","submission_type":{"ar":"محاضرة","en":"Lecture","es":"Conferencia","fr":"Conférence","ru":"Лекция","ua":"Лекція"},"submission_type_id":1,"track":{"en":"Open Data"},"track_id":11,"state":"confirmed","abstract":"This session explores the transformative potential of Wikidata in scholarly data curation, focusing on Swiss and Italian initiatives under the WikiCite umbrella. Emphasizing manual refinement and outreach, these projects aim to enrich academic author items and provide support to fragmented institutional repositories. Challenges include reconciling disparate data sources and addressing homonyms. Strategies for stakeholder engagement and social media utilization are discussed, with a goal of establishing national-level Wikidata communities. The feasibility of this framework and potential progress metrics are explored, highlighting the importance of comprehensive collaboration for maximizing Wikidata's impact on research visibility and collaboration.","description":"In the realm of scholarly data curation, Wikidata stands out as a potent platform for fostering research visibility and collaboration. This session offers a preliminary comparative analysis of two significant ongoing initiatives in Switzerland and Italy, focusing on indexing academic authors within the Wikidata framework.  \r\n\r\nThe two projects have been incorporated into the WikiCite initiative umbrella. However, they adopt an approach centered around manual refinement, outreach, and long-term comprehensiveness. The initial phase is primarily geared towards enhancing researcher profiles, aiming to facilitate the enhancement of numerous currently string-based institutional repositories.\r\n\r\nWe will explore various approaches and address challenges involved in integrating academic information within different national contexts. Specifically, we'll discuss strategies on Wikidata for handling fragmented or uniform institutional repositories, reconciling to them relevant authority files and citation databases and  proposing relevant ID properties. \r\n\r\nWe also illustrate our approach for the case of homonyms and the need of a more integrated effort on this aspect to reach full potential, especially on data-round tripping.\r\n\r\nWe will also discuss how to reach out to institutional stakeholders, and employ appropriate social media strategies.\r\n\r\nOur objective is in the end to demonstrate the feasibility of establishing a national-level framework for engaged Wikidata communities with a focused strategy. Additionally, we will briefly examine potential metrics and evaluation methods for reporting progress.\r\n\r\nSession recording: https://youtu.be/iZJ9OtiQxH8?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJdC5P86rsDsUtxEow0gDnR&t=23930","duration":25,"slot_count":1,"do_not_record":false,"is_featured":false,"content_locale":"en","slot":{"room_id":6,"room":{"en":"Dilijan (3) (interpretation)"},"start":"2024-08-10T16:00:00+02:00","end":"2024-08-10T16:25:00+02:00"},"image":null,"resources":[{"resource":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_and_authority_control_for_researchers_-_the_cases_of_Switzerland_and_Italy.pdf","description":"Presentation in pdf format"}],"answers":[]}