Research:Understanding GLAM professionals’ contributions to Wikidata

Created

14:18, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Contact

Hanlin Li

Collaborators

Amelia Acker

Riya Sinha

Duration:  2024-May – ??

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Research:Projects

This page documents a proposed research project.
Information may be incomplete and may change before the project starts.

The Lead: Introduce and describe your project at a high level in one or two paragraphs. Will the output of this project provide tangible benefits for our community (in the form of data, software, Web services)? If the output of this project mainly consists of scholarly publications, what aspects of Wikimedia projects will they help to understand

Context

Methods

Describe in this section the methods you'll be using to conduct your research. If the project involves recruiting Wikimedia/Wikipedia editors for a survey or interview, please describe the suggested recruitment method and the size of the sample. Please include links to consent forms, survey/interview questions and user-interface mock-ups.

Recruitment

We plan to recruit Wikidata editors in the following ways:

1. Post invitation message on __

2. Individually contact wikidata editors through our ___

Anyone who is interested in working on this project could fill out this enrollment form and/or contact Dr. Hanlin Li so that we can set up an interview.

Individual message template:

Subject: Invitation to participate in a research study on GLAMs’ use of Wikidata

Do you work in a GLAM organization? Do you contribute to Wikidata or query records on Wikidata as part of your work? If so, we would love to hear from you!

We are a team of researchers at UT Austin, researching why and how GLAM professionals use Wikidata in their job. Your insights and experiences are vital to our research and our efforts to support contributions to open knowledge bases.

Fill out this enrollment form to let us know your availability. If you are selected to participate, we will arrange a video call and ask you some questions about your Wikidata use and the call should last around 60 minutes. You will receive a $30 Amazon gift card after the call, as compensation for your time. Learn more about the study in this Research Information Sheet.

Interview Structure

1. Background information (reconfirm if already mentioned in the enrollment form).

2. Overview of Wikidata use in participant's organization.

3. Contributing to Wikidata.

4. Querying Wikidata (skip if participant does not Query Wikidata.

5. Tacking edits and measuring impacts.

6. Miscellaneous questions

Timeline

2024.07 IRB Review

2024.07-2024.08 Recruitment and Interviews

2024.08 - 2024.09 Data Analysis

Policy, Ethics and Human Subjects Research

It's very important that researchers do not disrupt Wikipedians' work. Please add to this section any consideration relevant to ethical implications of your project or references to Wikimedia policies, if applicable. If your study has been approved by an ethical committee or an institutional review board (IRB), please quote the corresponding reference and date of approval.

After submitting this study(IRB ID: STUDY00006291) to Institutional Review Board at the University of Texas at Austin, the IRB determined that this study meets the criteria for exemption from IRB review on July 15, 2024.

Confidentiality

The records of this study will be kept private. In any sort of report we might publish, we will not include any information that will make it possible to identify a subject. Research records will be stored securely in a University of Texas at Austin owned BoxDrive and only the research team of this project will have access to the records. The recording data(only audio of the interview will be kept) will be used for data analyzation and only the research team will have access to the data. The data will be deleted as soon as the transcription has been done.

Voluntary Nature of the Study

Participation in this study is voluntary. If you decide to participate, you are free to not answer any question or withdraw at any time.

Participation

If one is a Wikidata editor and would like to participate in this study, he/she could fill in this enrollment form here to provide a little bit of background information and set up an interview.