Name: Building more complete and linked GLAM datasets: The Smithsonian’s (In)Visible Women’s Project
Start: 2026-09-28T10:15:00-0400
End: 2026-09-28T10:45:00-0400

Building more complete and linked GLAM datasets: The Smithsonian’s (In)Visible Women’s Project

Monday September 28, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am EDT

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The Smithsonian’s (In)Visible Women Project, based at the National Museum of the American Indian, is developing pan-institutional data practices within Wikidata to support the disambiguation of artists, designers, scientists, etc. documented across fourteen Smithsonian repositories. This work seeks to connect siloed internal collections information systems (ArchivesSpace, TMS, EMu, etc.), an issue that has compounded with gaps in existing authority identifier sources (LCNAF, ULAN, etc.) and historical Smithsonian information practices to obscure the achievements of women.

Our lightning talk will focus on our work to date and reflect on our successes, but also lessons learned from managing a collaborative, pan-institutional, linked data project. Specifically, we will discuss: 1) the process of developing our collaborative, Smithsonian-specific Wikidata data model; 2) the challenges we have encountered in existing Wikidata structures; 3) our approach to managing the privacy of those represented in Smithsonian datasets; and 4) the uptake of Wikidata editing by Smithsonian staff and our strategies to build Wikidata editing skillsets.

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LD4 2026 Conference

Amanda Sorensen

Rachel Menyuk

Richard Naples

Deborah Shapiro

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