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Reimagine Descriptive Workflows: A Community-informed Agenda for Reparative and Inclusive Descriptive Practice

5 April 2022

Rachel L. Frick, Merrilee Proffitt

This community agenda contextualizes the challenges facing the library and information field in inclusive and reparative metadata work and offers a framework of guidance can help frame institutions’ local priorities and areas for change.

Archives and Special Collections Linked Data: Navigating between Notes and Nodes

21 July 2020

OCLC Research Archives and Special Collections Linked Data Review Group

This publication shares the findings from the Archives and Special Collections Linked Data Review Group, which explored key areas of concern and opportunities for archives and special collections in transitioning to a linked data environment.

WikiCite 2018-2019: Citations for the sum of all human knowledge

17 July 2019

Phoebe Ayers, Daniel Mietchen, Jake Orlowitz, Merrilee Proffitt, Sarah Rodlund, Elizabeth Seiver, Dario Taraborelli, Ben Vershbow

WikiCite is an initiative uniting the Wikidata, linked data, and library communities to create an open repository of bibliographic data. This WikiCite 2018 conference overview examines the future of open bibliographic data and the impact that WikiCite achieved over the past year.

ARL White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations

18 April 2019

ARL Task Force on Wikimedia and Linked Open Data

This Association of Research Libraries white paper informs librarians about GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) activity in Wikidata to suggest strategies for research library use, particularly in community-based collections, community-owned infrastructure, and collective collections.

Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge

26 April 2018

Merrilee Proffitt

This book encourages collaboration among academia, archives, libraries, and the volunteer Wikipedia community to connect communities of knowledge. It shows how libraries can partner with Wikipedia to improve content quality and make library services and collections more visible on the open web.