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_art...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_art...
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,
Merrilee
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