Wikidata:WikiProject University of Washington Libraries EMCO
Background
[edit]The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (Q63468537) (PCC) has launched a global cooperative for entity management on the semantic web called EMCO. As part of this program, the Wikidata user community has set up a Community of Practice to coordinate identity management work for GLAMs. You can read more about EMCO and the Wikidata Community of Practice at the EMCO Lyrasis Wiki. This project is an extension of the work of the WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot (Q102157715) and acknowledges its great intellectual and organizational debt to the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group (Q124692294).
Early Adopter Phase Objectives
[edit]Objectives, as identified by project participants, Registry Coordinators, and the PCC Identity Management Advisory Committee, include:
- Defining shared core properties for "agent" classes in Wikidata
- Determining a method of collecting and reporting Wikidata statistics to the PCC
- Pulling together documentation on Wikidata editing relevant to GLAMs
- Coordinating WikiProjects participants are working on
- Setting expectations for participation in the EMCO Wikidata Community of Practice moving forward
Mission
[edit]EMCO promotes the discovery and use of the world’s knowledge by supporting metadata producers in library and other cultural heritage communities and by forging alliances with partners who share common goals. PCC members create trusted metadata and support its use and reuse by global communities
Guidance for Participation
[edit]Statistics
[edit]The Wikidata Community of Practice is still considering how to track Wikidata statistics for the PCC. In the meantime, project participants should keep track of project contributions using P5008:Q136542464.
Best Practices
[edit]EMCO Community of Practice best practices may supersede UW PCC Wikidata Pilot practices in the future. For now, participants should follow application profiles developed locally as part of the PCC Wikidata Pilot, updating the P5008 value to the local EMCO project.
Participants
[edit]The following users are participating in the University of Washington Libraries' EMCO Project: