Hi Karen, thank you for asking!

The holding numbers come from WorldCat Identities, which was an outgrowth of our work with FRBR. Therefore I believe that it does not include articles, but I am checking on that and will report back if I’m incorrect about that.

The number includes both works BY and ABOUT an individual.

Merrilee Proffitt

Senior Manager, OCLC Research Library Partnership

From: Libraries <libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org> On Behalf Of Karen Coyle
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Hi, Merrilee, and thanks. Anything to get people started.

Can you say more about what the number represents? Is it the person as
author, as subject? Does it include journal articles?

Thanks,
kc

On 4/7/20 11:22 AM, Proffitt,Merrilee wrote:
> Hi all, my OCLC colleague Chris Cyr and I have been workshopping an idea
> with Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight and Rob Fernandez -- that is
> incorporating library holdings from WorldCat into the Women in Red
> Redlists. We acknowledge that WorldCat holdings aren't perfect, and that
> they certainly aren't a surefire way of indicating notability --
> however, they may be helpful in guiding editors (in the same way that
> other indicators in these lists might inspire an editor to get started
> -- for example, site links, a photo, country of origin etc.)
>
> If you are interested in exploring this topic with us for your own gap
> area, please let me know. We have developed a methodology for getting
> the holdings numbers via OpenRefine so you can incorporate this into
> your own projects.
>
> You can see some example of this at:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_occupation/Activists
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_occupation/Gender_Studies#Wikidata_list
>
>
> Note that the examples have taken the OpenRefine outputs and
> incorporated them into Wikidata -- so work is required on your end to
> get this product!
>
> Best,
>
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