User:Jason.nlw/National Wikimedian at the National Library of Wales/Wikidata Visiting Scholar
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Wikidata Visiting Scholar
In April 2016 the National Library of Wales became the first institution in the world to take on a Wikidata Visiting Scholar. The Wiki Education Foundation had been coordinating Wikipedia Visiting Scholar programs for some time, mainly in the United States. The Wikidata Visiting Scholar scheme is being trialed as an extension of the existing program and is being supported by the Wikipedia Library. Rather then focusing on providing visiting scholars with access to Library collections and services, the focus with this project is to give Wikidata volunteers access to Metadata collections which are not otherwise available to the public, and to offer them technical support and direction in manipulating and transferring this data to Wikidata. It is hoped that the project will lead the development of new and innovative ways of exploring, viewing and analyzing Library/archive data.