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Piloting Wikidata as an Authority Identifier: The (In)visible Women Project at the Smithsonian Institution

Journal of Open Humanities Data
Volume 12 (2026): Issue 1
By: Amanda H. Sorensen,  Rachel Menyuk,  Deborah Shapiro and  Richard Naples  
Open Access
|Feb 2026

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.467 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
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Language: English
Submitted on: Nov 10, 2025
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Accepted on: Jan 5, 2026
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Published on: Feb 3, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
women’s history,
cultural heritage collections,
data curation, modeling, and sharing,
Smithsonian Institution,
authority identifiers

© 2026 Amanda H. Sorensen, Rachel Menyuk, Deborah Shapiro, Richard Naples, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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