Ann Matsuuchi

Ann Matsuuchi is an instructional technology librarian at the LaGuardia Library, a professor at LaGuardia Community College, and a Wikimedian. thumb|Matsuuchi in 2015 Quotes I think a lot of scholars don't realize how the information about the work that they've done is so tightly held and controlled by proprietary databases. Not even just the content of your papers, but just the information about it. There is no publicly accessible open source repository for all of it. Wikidata is definitely a step in the right direction. And this is something that's extremely important. This is this is why I like to I like to talk about Wikipedia and wiki projects as being like public media institutions. To contrasted this with, you know, all of the, the corporate and corporate entities that libraries and archives are beholden to. When I talk about Wikipedia with students, I think a lot of times that they immediately imagine that Wikipedia is a company like all the other companies and that's the only sort of model that they've ever considered. I think we really need to sort of sort of break through that line of thinking and the way that we do our work doesn't have to fall under the auspices of, entities like, like OCLC. I mean, not that they're not doing good work, but that, you know, that they we could create different kinds of more flexible and open models for sharing the work that we all do. Episode 112: “Wikipedia is the CUNY of the Internet” August, 2025 On the Wikidata, higher education, and academic publishing External links Category:Ann Matsuuchi Category:Librarians