How To Guides

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External resources

  • Guidelines for Using Wikidata to Mobilize Information about People in Collections: A Paleontology Perspective: The purpose of this document is to provide a framework for how to mobilize information via Wikidata about people working in and/or associated with scientific collections. Building on previous Wikidata documentation produced by Siobhan Leachman (2020, [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4724139),](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4724139),) participants of the Using Wikidata to Capture and Share Information about People in Paleontology workshop (held March 29-31, 2022) created this framework to formalize and share practical knowledge gained from the workshop.
  • Introduction to basic editing in Wikidata: Recording of presentation originally part of the workshop, Using Wikidata to Capture and Share Information about People in Paleontology.
  • Introduction to efficient/bulk editing in Wikidata: Recording of presentation originally part of the workshop, Using Wikidata to Capture and Share Information about People in Paleontology. Includes demo of using Wikidata reconciliation services in OpenRefine.
  • Using wikidata to capture and share information about people in paleontology: Website with materials related to a workshop that served as a hands-on introduction to finding, editing, and using data in Wikidata, using people associated with paleontology collections (e.g., collectors, researchers, collections staff) as subjects for this introduction.