provide a presence for underrepresented subjects in the knowledge base.59
Notable Examples in the Research Library Community
Enhanced Data in Library Catalogs
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries developed a linked data project called BibCard to build knowledge cards for library data. BibCard brings identifiers related to authors from external sources (such as VIAF, Library of Congress Name Authority File, Wikidata, DBpedia, and the Getty Vocabularies) into the linked data instance of their library catalog.60 An example of this integration can be seen in the entry for Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) professor Una Osili’s work Does Female Schooling Reduce Fertility? Evidence from Nigeria. (See Figure 6.) The Wikidata entry for Osili was created as part of the IUPUI initiative to bring faculty members to Wikidata, mentioned later in this white paper. This shows how a library’s contribution to Wikidata can benefit other institutions in the enhancement of their bibliographic catalog records.
