Adding humanities and social science publications to Wikidata: a contribution to the Open Science movement

Abstract

This is a case study which describes and evaluates the process of creating Wikidata items for academic journals and articles published by the University of Puerto Rico in the humanities and social sciences, as part of an open science initiative. It suggests preliminary steps that can be taken to improve indexing and to register local geographic, disciplinary, and cultural contexts for humanities and social science journals on Wikidata. Finally, argues that these steps can promote a different way of evaluating scholarship in these fields, more appropriate to the humanities and social sciences but nevertheless promoting scholarly cooperation in a spirit consistent with the ethos of open science as perceived by the author.