Where did I find my latest #NZThesisProject match? While adding #BlueskyHandles to #Wikidata items, of course! After a PhD from Uni of Western Australia, Malindi Gammon is back in NZ where she earlier completed MSc at #VUW @thneed.bsky.social @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social @malindijane.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Where did I find my latest #NZThesisProject match? While adding #BlueskyHandles to #Wikidata items, of course! After a PhD from Uni of Western Australia, Malindi Gammon is back in NZ where she earlier completed MSc at #VUW @thneed.bsky.social @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social @malindijane.bsky.social
Great to see this, congratulations to you both. This has been a good project for my detective skills and a fun collaboration. Your paper may be published, but the work is ongoing! #NZThesisProject @wmau.bsky.social
Delighted to announce that my long-awaited paper on the NZ Thesis Project is published (& is open access)! Deborah and I worked hard to write this because we would love for all academic libraries to link their data to Wikidata - this tells you why and how
www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article...
www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article...
The New Zealand Thesis Project: Connecting a Nation’s Dissertations Using Wikidata
Introduction: Libraries hold large amounts of bibliographic data, with great potential for enrichment with linked open data. The New Zealand Thesis Project explored this potential by uploading thesis ...
www.iastatedigitalpress.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Great to see this, congratulations to you both. This has been a good project for my detective skills and a fun collaboration. Your paper may be published, but the work is ongoing! #NZThesisProject @wmau.bsky.social
Yep! I don't know quite why it's been mentioned again but possibly because I talked about on Saturday night as one of the outcomes of the #NZThesisProject commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Co...
commons.wikimedia.org
September 1, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Yep! I don't know quite why it's been mentioned again but possibly because I talked about on Saturday night as one of the outcomes of the #NZThesisProject commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Co...
Just had a lovely time presenting on the #NZThesisProject at the #Wikicite2025 conference in Bern. Wish I could have been there in person! Slides on Commons, and the talk was recorded if you want to know the biggest challenges and successes we faced commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Co...
commons.wikimedia.org
August 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Just had a lovely time presenting on the #NZThesisProject at the #Wikicite2025 conference in Bern. Wish I could have been there in person! Slides on Commons, and the talk was recorded if you want to know the biggest challenges and successes we faced commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Co...
Anyone that knows me (and the #NZThesisProject) will be unsurprised I cited a thesis on the page - the heritage specialist who got these toilets listed did her master's on Dunedin's underground toilets!
December 9, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Anyone that knows me (and the #NZThesisProject) will be unsurprised I cited a thesis on the page - the heritage specialist who got these toilets listed did her master's on Dunedin's underground toilets!
Oh good idea! @anniereynolds.bsky.social is doing an amazing job on matching #NZThesisProject advisors at the moment, and when the latest batch is done I'll upgrade my OpenRefine and install the extension again (and have my fingers firmly crossed nothing gets stuffed up this time!)
December 6, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Oh good idea! @anniereynolds.bsky.social is doing an amazing job on matching #NZThesisProject advisors at the moment, and when the latest batch is done I'll upgrade my OpenRefine and install the extension again (and have my fingers firmly crossed nothing gets stuffed up this time!)
Well I scrolled down and saw that you were talking about adding main subject statements to journal articles on Wikidata, and using Scholia, so I think you're in! I've added v rich metadata on subjects for theses in the NZThesisProject, but am still unsure how much/where that gets reused by others.
November 10, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Well I scrolled down and saw that you were talking about adding main subject statements to journal articles on Wikidata, and using Scholia, so I think you're in! I've added v rich metadata on subjects for theses in the NZThesisProject, but am still unsure how much/where that gets reused by others.
Now that would be amazing! So much easier to use as references on Wikipedia once they’re in Wikidata. And think of the overlap of authors with #NZThesisProject!
January 21, 2024 at 1:46 AM
Now that would be amazing! So much easier to use as references on Wikipedia once they’re in Wikidata. And think of the overlap of authors with #NZThesisProject!
Many NZ researchers wouldn't exist in Wikidata or Wikipedia without Tamsin's work. She's done it largely as a volunteer and outside academia, but this is the sort of project academic libraries should have permanent full-time staff devoted to. Hopefully some will get the message now.
Wikidata:WikiProject NZThesisProject - Wikidata
www.wikidata.org
March 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Many NZ researchers wouldn't exist in Wikidata or Wikipedia without Tamsin's work. She's done it largely as a volunteer and outside academia, but this is the sort of project academic libraries should have permanent full-time staff devoted to. Hopefully some will get the message now.