CALA Speaker Series "Describing Chinese Rare Books and Cultural Heritage Collections" Session 1
Channel: CALAChannel
Date: 23/02/2023

"Chinese Ancestors Portraits Project & Wikidata" is the first session of the CALA Speaker Series: Describing Chinese Rare Books and Cultural Heritage Collections. It shares the reasons and motivations for the selection of Wikidata as a platform for connecting users to the collections of the Smithsonian Libraries & Archives. It discusses the advantages of using Wikidata, including its visualization options and potential for linking collections within and outside the Smithsonian. Additionally, it shares the challenges that the Smithsonian Libraries & Archives team has encountered in describing the Chinese Ancestors Portraits from the Museum of Asian Art in Wikidata, and their decision-making progress. Smithsonian Libraries & Archives’ wiki page and blog document their Wikidata projects and overall Wikidata experience. This talk was delivered by Jackie Shieh, Descriptive Data Management Librarian at Smithsonian Libraries & Archives via Zoom on February 23, 2023. This session is also archived by CALASYS and can be accessed at https://ir.cala-web.org/items/show/1053.