When you hear the word metadata, do you think of cell phone records, or of a whole world
of knowledge waiting to be linked and discovered? Stanford University Libraries and the
Linked Data for Production (LD4P) project<http://www.ld4p.org> are seeking someone
who is passionate about libraries and about bringing library data to the world, to serve
as our Wikimedian-in-Residence.
As a widely used source of structured data, Wikidata has the potential to be a platform
for publishing, linking, and enriching library metadata. The Wikimedian-in-Residence will
play a key role in enabling the Wikimedia community and the library community to enrich
each other’s pool of knowledge.
Alex Stinson, GLAM-Wiki Strategist at the Wikimedia Foundation, explains the importance of
this role: "We are seeing a growing body of interest among different library
communities, both in North America, Europe, and other parts of the world in figuring out
how libraries should be involved in using Wikidata. The LD4P project and this role provide
a well-supported environment for creating experiments within the actual central work of
research libraries, to figure out what works and doesn't and how technology can be
improved to support such collaboration."
Read more and apply for the position here:
https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/wikimedian-in-residence-3711
****************
Michelle Futornick
Linked Data for Production (LD4P) Program Manager
Stanford University
Lathrop Library
Stanford, CA 94305