Wikidata:WikiProject Wiki-PR Puerto Rican Cultural Heritage
Background
[edit]This project page serves as a central hub for various initiatives highlighting Puerto Ricans and Puerto Rican culture in Wikidata. Some of these initiatives include introducing Wikidata into cataloging workflows in the Library System of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus; describing GLAMs and their collections; and supporting decolonial efforts in linked open data creation in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
Goals
[edit]- Increase the visibility of Puerto Rican culture in Wikidata.
- Use Wikidata as a way to involve cataloging librarians, particularly assistant librarians, in the process of creating entries for Puerto Ricans as an alternative to traditional authority control.
- Introduce Wikidata in current digital humanities initiatives that work with community organizations.
- Increase community participation in Wikidata.
- Highlight linked data creation as a cultural and political practice, in which the power to name is at stake.
- Sustain a wider discussion of the pros and cons of representing knowledge as structured data in open databases. For example, discussing how to represent the complexities of the Caribean in terms of colonial power relations, language diversity, diasporic relations or citizenship.
Tasks
[edit]- Create and edit items for significant people, institutions, and community-based organizations in the Puerto Rican cultural ecosystem.
- Create and edit items for archival collections in Puerto Rican institutions, including special collections in libraries and in community organizations.
- Create and edit items for holdings in collections across GLAMs in Puerto Rico.
Current contributors and contact information
[edit]- Dmwilsonfraites - Dinah M. Wilson-Fraites, dinah.wilson@upr.edu
- ClaudiaDeSouza - Cláudia D. De Souza, claudia.souza@upr.edu
Suggested properties for describing persons
[edit]These are some basic properties to consider when creating or editing items for persons. We recommend the use of Recoin to identify additional properties.
| Property | Values | Usage note | |
|---|---|---|---|
| instance of (P31) | human (Q5) | ||
| given name (P735) | first name or another given name | To distinguish first and middle names, use with qualifier: series ordinal (P1545) | |
| family name (P734) | surname | ||
| second family name in Spanish name (P1950) | second surname for persons of Hispanic descent | ||
| date of birth (P569) | year of birth or more specific date | ||
| place of birth (P19) | country, city, or municipality where the person was born | When using a city or municipality as the value of place of birth (P19), use with qualifier: country (P17) | |
| date of death (P570) | year of death or more specific date | ||
| place of death (P20) | country, city, or municipality where the person died | When using a city or municipality as the value of place of death (P20), use with qualifier: country (P17) | |
| sex or gender (P21) | sex or gender identity of subject: male (Q6581097), female (Q6581072), intersex (Q1097630), trans woman (Q1052281), trans man (Q2449503) | Please review Wikidata's policy for describing living persons (https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Living_people&oldid=1941487793) | |
| occupation (P106) | main occupations for which the person is known for | This property allows for more than one value | |
| ethnic group (P172) | to identify Puerto Ricans, use Puerto Ricans (Q893594)} | Wikidata privileges the use of country of citizenship (P27) to identify the nationality of persons. This contributes to the invisibility of people from nations without sovereign states. Please note that this property ethnic group (P172) requires a high standard of proof and should include a reference. | |
| has works in the collection (P6379) | collection that has the works of this person | See Myrna Báez (Q19478939) as an example of how to use this property | |
| archives at (P485) | institution that has this person's archives | See Myrna Báez (Q19478939) as an example of how to use this property |
Suggested properties for describing institutions and organizations
[edit]These are some basic properties to consider when creating or editing items for institutions and organizations. We recommend the use of Recoin to identify additional properties.
| Property | Values | Usage note | |
|---|---|---|---|
| instance of (P31) | type of institution or organization being described. Examples of GLAMs include library (Q7075) ; archives (Q166118) ; museum (Q33506). Other examples can include community organization (Q3269648) or nonprofit organization (Q163740) | This property can include multiple values. For example: community archive (Q25105971) and digital archive (Q1224984) | |
| part of (P361) | larger institution or organization to which the institution being described belongs | This property is useful to describe the hierarchical structure of the institution or organization. See for example Smithsonian American Art Museum (Q1192305) | |
| has part(s) (P527) | branches or smaller units that form part of the institution being described | When creating element pages for these smaller units, include the property part of (P361) to register the name of the larger unit or organization. See for example Regional Library of the Caribbean and Latin American Studies (Q133306524) | |
| inception (P571) | foundation date; can be a year or more specific date | ||
| country (P17) | country where the institution is located | ||
| located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) | state, city, province or municipality where the institution is located | ||
| location (P276) | specific location of the institution being described | This property can include the name of the building where the institution is located. | |
| headquarters location (P159) | city, town or municipality where the institution's headquarters is situated | ||
| official website (P856) | URL of the official page of the institution or organization |
Suggested properties for describing collections
[edit]These are some basic properties to consider when creating or editing items for archival, library or museum collections. We recommend the use of Recoin to identify additional properties.
| Property | Values | Usage note | |
|---|---|---|---|
| instance of (P31) | type of collection being described. Values can include archival collection (Q9388534), library collection (Q856592), museum collection (Q27699276), or simply collection (Q2668072) | ||
| part of (P361) | institution that houses the collection and/or larger collection that includes the collection being described | ||
| title (P1476) | name of the collection | ||
| archives at (P485) | institution holding the collection | ||
| start of covered period (P7103) | start of the period covered by the collection | ||
| end of covered period (P7104) | end of the period covered by the collection | ||
| main subject (P921) | topics covered by the collection | See for example Casa Pueblo: Period 1 [1980-1995] (Q126374636) | |
| described at URL (P973) | web page where the collection is described |