Helen Williams

First in a new blog post series from OCLC summarising the discussions of Metadata Managers as we explored the challenges and opportunities of AI in metadata creation and management.

Catch up with @lselibrary.bsky.social's latest Wikidata project here journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... This time we've been focusing on a unique set of oral history interviews about the British Suffrage Movement.

Thanks Laurence! Hope all's good with you

We have an exciting opportunity for a Library Assistant in the Metadata Team at @lselibrary.bsky.social. Join us to create & manage metadata for Library collections & LSE research outputs, support discoverability, & engage in emerging work such as Wikidata projects.
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Exciting new role of Wikimedian in Residence & Research Visibility Champion at @lselibrary.bsky.social, working with me & @rosiehigman.bsky.social as well as colleagues across the School, including @lizstokoe.bsky.social. Closes 17 Aug 2025 - do take a look!

Exciting new role @lselibrary.bsky.social for a Wikimedian in Residence & Research Visibility Champion! Working with me & @rosiehigman.bsky.social, as well as colleagues across the School, including @lizstokoe.bsky.social. Closes 17 Aug 25 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

📢Excited to share a new job opportunity: Wikimedian in Residence and Research Visibility Champion to develop our engagement with Wikimedia and research visibility tools, working collaboratively with LSE colleagues to increase research impact.
Closing: 17 Aug 2025
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Come and work with brilliant @lselibrary.bsky.social colleagues @rosiehigman.bsky.social @helskrw.bsky.social @niamhtumelty.bsky.social and me (in my #impact role) as our Wikimedian in Residence and Research Visibility Champion!

Closing 17th Aug 2025

#OpenResearch

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I was just exploring the guides this morning and sharing with colleagues! They're great!

Delighted to be part of this community endeavour to support metadata managers in developing confidence to explore AI opportunities in metadata workflows.

There's a Wikimedia project modelling smells! www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

Yesterday was all about the Wikidata Graph Split - making solid progress on ensuring our thesis project queries are updated to be workable and usable www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat.... The split will require a few edits to the Wikidata Thesis Toolkit as well - work is underway - watch this space!

oh I'm sorry Esther. Sending sympathy and emergency hugs

This exciting paper also links to the Wikidata Thesis Toolkit that I co-wrote with Ruth Elder, University of York. If @thneed.bsky.social's paper inspires you to get your theses onto Wikidata then the toolkit aims to help you! www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

Brilliant article by @thneed.bsky.social detailing the huge success of their NZ Thesis Project making this unique content more discoverable and connected. Thanks for including mention of our LSE Thesis Project www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... as well!

Would you be able to add me? Thank you!

I wouldn't be able to part with them either! The bookshelves at my parents house are still frequently used in this way!

Moved from people to organisations - I'll get the details out of my SPARQL driven spreadsheet for you!

Also just yesterday, edited 4 Wikipedia pages as part of our Suffrage Interviews project, contributing knowledge from Library collections to a global audience! Definitely massive changes from the discovery landscape of my childhood! www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

Just yesterday I was in a park near where my Nan used to live, remembering the days when homework frequently required nipping round to hers to use an old 7 volume encyclopaedia set! Highly inefficient as a homework method, though wonderful for hugs, snacks and encouragement!

Digital Heritage in action: The Heritage Lab x Wikimedia UK Collaboration between The Heritage Lab and Wikimedia UK involving researchers from across UK Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums (GLAM).

Really excited about our new venture with The Heritage Lab: please circulate to any scholars or institutions you think would be a good fit for this project, which looks specifically at South Asian art, history and culture. Please feel free to DM me any questions!

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Grappling with the impact of the Wikidata Graph Split on a Monday morning has built up an appetite for lunch – a chance to see whether yesterday’s culinary grappling with a 4th attempt to modify a gluten & dairy free fruit soda bread recipe has worked!

Trying to work out if that's a repentant dog expression...?!

Great to see the shout out for DOIs and ORCIDs amidst the wider concerns here - these kinds of identifiers are a vital part of discoverability and exposing connections between research outputs.

Really interesting, and in another lovely connection our Suffrage Interviews Wikidata project has a SPARQL query which shows 2 interviewees, Kathleen Halpin and Mary Smieton, mention Caroline Haslett! archives.lse.ac.uk/records/8SUF...
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A decade of collaboration between Wikimedia UK and the National Library of Wales: Building a sustainable future for Welsh culture online - WMUK By Jason Evans, Open Data Manager at the National Library of Wales 10 years ago I turned up for my … Continue reading "A decade of collaboration between Wikimedia UK and the National Library of…

'Wikidata has become the largest collection of open cultural heritage data the world has ever seen'

It’s now live! I’m so excited about this post – I’m recruiting to the new role of Head of Student Library Experience at @lselibrary.bsky.social. Interested? jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I took down everything this weekend (mammoth operation!) - except the fairy lights!

Thanks to @oclcglobal.bsky.social for this opportunity to share our metadata future proofing experiences, and discuss with a much wider group of librarians - always love learning from everyone's expertise

Red and white Christmas flower arrangement

In a little early deviation from metadata... having never arranged flowers before, I somehow produced this (with instruction!) earlier in the week, and was super excited! But I'm sticking with metadata for the day job!