2020-July-09 Morphing the authority control (Jackie Shieh)
Channel: LD4
Date: 06/07/2020

2020 LD4 Conference, Infrastructure track

The Smithsonian Libraries (SL) has been investigating whether Mediawiki/Wikibase offers solutions to the challenges of authority control in a linked data environment. This presentation hopes to share SL's efforts in transitioning both data and staff out of the current MARC environment. The SL's Wikibase instance process involved tool evaluations, data selection and preparation, and staff training. The SL's management team embraced this project as another valuable and transformative opportunity for both library collections data and staff.