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The New Zealand Thesis Project: A nation's dissertations

Authors
Braisher, T, Fitchett, Deborah
Date
2023
Type
Conference Contribution - unpublished
Collections
Learning, Teaching and Library
Keywords
library collections, linked open data
Fields of Research
ANZSRC::460912 Knowledge and information management, ANZSRC::461099 Library and information studies not elsewhere classified, ANZSRC::460507 Information extraction and fusion
Abstract
The New Zealand Thesis Project showcases the power of collaboration between academic librarians and Wikimedians. Beginning in 2022, the project brought together metadata for more than 66,000 theses from 13 tertiary institutions, cleaned it in OpenRefine, and added records to Wikidata. This allows them to be easily accessed in multiple languages and cited on Wikipedia. In addition, we have disambiguated 12,000 individuals and more than 1800 ANZSRC and Ngā Upoko Tukutuku subject headings connected to the thesis collection, allowing us to visualise our data in new ways and find unexpected connections. Through leveraging the vast amount of data already available on Wikidata, the New Zealand Thesis Project is making it easier than ever before to find and connect relevant research from all over the world. We will describe what we’ve done, the next steps for our project, and how our process could be relevant to other institutional repositories.
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