New subject: [External] Re: WorldCat holdings for gap projects?

7 Apr 2020

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_ar…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_ar…

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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