The Wayfinder Project: Revealing Black Print Culture to a Linked World, 1830-

FAIN: PW-285174-22

Emory University (Atlanta, GA 30322-1018)
Jennifer Gunter King (Project Director: July 2021 to March 2024)
Elizabeth Roke (Project Director: March 2024 to present)
Elizabeth Roke (Co Project Director: May 2022 to March 2024)

Planning for a digital bibliography of African American serials publications in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using the 6,500 entries in James Danky and Maureen Hady's African American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (1998) as its basis, the project would integrate data from both open-source resources, such as Chronicling America, and proprietary databases, such as Readex’s Early American Newspapers and Accessible Archives. 

The Wayfinder Project: Revealing Black Print Culture to a Linked World, 1830-, is a collaborative Emory University Libraries initiative to update and republish James Danky and Maureen Hady's 1998 African American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography. Led by the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, and in collaboration with the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship; Research, Engagement and Scholarly Communications; and Access and Resource Services Divisions, it will add new serials to the bibliography and reimagine the current volume using a linked data framework to make it more searchable, discoverable, and usable. The Foundation grant will support establishing an advisory committee to guide the decision-making of the project team who will establish a data model, metadata mapping plan, cataloging standards, an editorial model, and design for online access for creating a digital version of this foundational bibliographic resource.

Associated Products

Rose Library Blog Post (Blog Post)
Title: Rose Library Blog Post
Author: Maureen Hady
Abstract: “Emory’s Rose Library receives NEH grant for Black Print Culture project” https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/woodruff/news/rose-library-receives-neh-grant-for-black-print-culture-project
Date: 5/3/2022
Primary URL: http:// https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/woodruff/news/rose-library-receives-neh-grant-for-black-print-culture-project
Blog Title: Emory’s Rose Library receives NEH grant for Black Print Culture project
Website: Rose Library Blog

Rose Library Blog Post (Blog Post)
Title: Rose Library Blog Post
Author: Jennifer King
Abstract: Summary of two-day advisory board meeting.
Date: 09/28/2023
Primary URL: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/marbl/2023/09/29/neh-wayfinder-project-establishing-a-linked-data-future-for-african-american-periodicals-with-the-advisory-board/
Blog Title: NEH Wayfinder Project: Establishing a Linked Data Future for African American Periodicals with the Advisory Board
Website: Rose Library Blog

Wayfinder Project website (Web Resource)
Title: Wayfinder Project website
Author: Elizabeth Roke
Author: Sara Palmer
Author: Erica Bruchko
Abstract: Website for the project including a description of the project, timeline, and the data model.
Year: 2024
Primary URL: https://wayfinder.libraries.emory.edu/

The Wayfinder Project (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: The Wayfinder Project
Author: Elizabeth Roke
Abstract: Overview of the Wayfinder project presented as part of a panel on African American newspaper collection development.
Date: 07-01-2024
Conference Name: American Library Association Annual Meeting

Building and Disseminating Print Bibliographic Data Online (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Building and Disseminating Print Bibliographic Data Online
Author: Sara Palmer
Abstract: This session will introduce the data-making practices and Wikidata engagement integral to the NEH-funded Wayfinder project at Emory University. The Wayfinder project is an initiative to reimagine James Danky and Maureen Hady’s 1998 African American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography as a linked dataset available on Wikidata. The talk will cover the key data modeling decisions made, in partnership with an advisory board, related to adapting a print bibliography to an online resource, the use of artificial intelligence to extract data, and the process of integrating the data into Wikidata. The talk will conclude with a discussion of the risks and benefits of the Wikidata platform for promoting discovery and enhancement of the dataset by both scholars and the general public. This presentation will appeal to data-making practitioners, librarians, technologists and those interested in disseminating knowledge about Black print culture.
Date: 11-11-2023
Primary URL: https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions:2023/Building_and_Disseminating_Print_Bibliographic_Data_Online
Conference Name: Wikiconference North America

The Wayfinder Project: Linked Open Data for Collections (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: The Wayfinder Project: Linked Open Data for Collections
Author: Sara Palmer
Abstract: Overview of the Wayfinder project and how Wikidata and linked data is used to give access to the data embedded in African American Newspapers and Periodicals: a Bibliography.
Date: 04-12-2024

Course Assignment: Wayfinder Wikidata (Course or Curricular Material)
Title: Course Assignment: Wayfinder Wikidata
Author: Erica Bruchko
Abstract: This assignment, which includes several components, was designed for students to participate meaningfully in the “remediation” of periodical history through original research and Wikipedia/Wikidata entries related to Black editors and periodicals in the United States. Students were asked to select a newspaper from the Danky data set and create both a Wikipedia and a Wikidata entry. This libguide was created to supplement the assignment.
Year: 2024
Primary URL: https://guides.libraries.emory.edu/c.php?g=1379784&p=10209778
Audience: Undergraduate

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