Structured data for GLAM-Wiki/Prepare data

Structured data for GLAM-Wiki

Select the data and media files you want to contribute, and prepare them to be compatible with Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.

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Clean up the data to be consistent and compatible with Wikimedia Commons and/or Wikidata.

Tools:

  • Spreadsheet software - allows non-programmers to run checks against existing Wikimedia content
  • OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) - popular tool for advanced data cleaning, transformation and matching against Wikidata content. Its homepage includes video tutorials and a guide on how to use version 3.0 and higher for Wikidata manipulation and uploading.
  • PAWS and Pywikibot - for those with some programming experience allows for large scale querying and advanced actions.


Website scraping/ingest tools (if the data is available online but the partner can't produce data exports from its database)

  • Tabula - open source tool to extract tables from PDF files
  • PAWS - Python programming notebook environment on Wikimedia Tools Lab that can transfer records from an institution's API

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