Current local workflow is posted on the Wiki page WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/University of Washington/Workflow, Trainings, and Resources/EAD to Wikidata Workflow.
Constructive feedback is welcome; please feel free to create an issue in this repository if you have suggestions for improvement.
Extracting agents data from EAD, reconciling agents with Wikidata entities, and adding links to Wikidata items to finding aids.
quickstatements_csv.py is a script that takes in a directory of EAD files and retrieves the values from the following elements:
- origination
- unittitle
- unitid
- eadid/@url
The script takes those values and outputs them in a CSV file that can be uploaded to Quickstatements to add that archival data to new or existing Wikidata items. In order to contribute to existing Wikidata items, the script also extracts Wikidata Qids from a CSV file (see reconciliation_csv.py).
Example:
$ python3.6 quickstatements_csv.py data_received/LaborArchivesEADLinkedDataProject data_reconciliation/reconciledValuesWithQNumbers-2021-01-20-cec.csv
The output of this script is quickstatements_csv.csv.
reconciliation_csv.py is a script that takes in a directory of EAD files and retrieves the values from the following elements:
The script takes those values and outputs them in a CSV file that can be opened with OpenRefine in order to reconcile the origination agent names with Wikidata items.
Once reconciliation in OpenRefine is complete, the Wikidata Qids should be in their own column, second from the left. See here for an example. This data should then be exported in a CSV file, which can then be used with quickstatements_csv.py (see above).
Example:
$ python3.6 reconciliation_csv.py data_received/LaborArchivesEADLinkedDataProject
The output of this script is reconciliation_csv.csv.