Introducing the Wikidata thesis toolkit


With the focus increasingly on the academic library as a provider of Open 
Knowledge, the libraries at LSE and York have been working to develop a process 
to upload research theses metadata to Wikidata in order to extend the access 
and visibility of scholarly content.  We are keen to reduce the development 
burden for this work across the sector and have compiled a toolkit to give 
guidance to other academic libraries who are interested in promoting their 
research in a similar way.



A more detailed introduction to our work can be found 
here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/14FylUJ9soIqMzH3yCOHHZzPgE7S3cvdZQowhpY2b5nY/edit>,
 and the toolkit itself can be accessed via the Wikidata Thesis 
Toolkit<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_Thesis_Toolkit>.



Helen and Ruth will be presenting the toolkit at the Metadata and Discovery 
Group 
conference<https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1729456&group=201298>
 in September 2023.



Helen Williams and Ruth Elder


Helen Williams

Metadata Manager, Digital Scholarship and Innovation Group

LSE Library

Houghton Street

London WC2A 2AE


[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

ORCID: 0000-0003-1259-7097<http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1259-7097>

Twitter: @HelsHRW


Ruth Elder

​Collections Management Specialist

Content and Open Research

Library, Archives and Learning Services

Student and Academic Services

University of York

Heslington York YO10 5DD



[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

Twitter: @ruthelder2

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