Wikidata and decentral archives:

At the workshop Subverting Archival Practices (https://perfomap.de/newspictures/workshop_berlin_nov.pdf), I presented my thoughts on the role of #Wikidata for the now very widespread online archives of projects as websites (e.g., https://talkingobjectsarchive.org/ https://dekoloniale.de/ https://archive.transmediale.de/ https://archiv.ngbk.de/). Linking persons, events, places, objects on these websites to Wikidata would make them more visible, but also allow for research across these different archives.

A new aspect here is also Wikidata's possible role for #webarchiving, i.e. the storage of endangered websites in containers, namely by enabling references to individual pieces of information in the container once the original website is no longer available.

This was also tested with students of @magdalena at Aarhus university in October in the workshop "Data Modelling and Web Content at Risk", they referenced information from the https://dekoloniale.de/ website on Wikidata: https://cc.au.dk/en/c4cdp/news/show/artikel/data-modelling-and-web-content-at-risk-students-of-the-curating-data-course-explore-digital-preservation-through-wikidata-and-linked-open-data

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Veranstaltung
»Marburger Wissensräume: 500 Jahre Universitäts- und Wissensgeschichte mit Wikimedia bereitstellen«

Der Kunsthistoriker Peter Bell im Gespräch mit Henrike Haug
online
Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2025, ab 18:00 Uhr

Info & Zugangslink: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbeitsgemeinschaft_Kunstwissenschaften_%2B_Wikipedia/tips_%26_tools #kuwiki #Wikidata #Wikimedia

Blogpost on my #Wikidata workshop at Aarhus University with Data Curation students in a seminar of Prof. Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver: https://cc.au.dk/en/c4cdp/news/show/artikel/data-modelling-and-web-content-at-risk-students-of-the-curating-data-course-explore-digital-preservation-through-wikidata-and-linked-open-data

“Working with research gathered in the framework of Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City (Dekoloniale) – a project and website dedicated to critically engaging with colonial histories in urban space – participants explored how open knowledge graphs can enhance data visibility and enable long-term cultural preservation.”

"QLever is the fastest engine overall, but is slower for distinct answers. Virtuoso is fast but diverges the most by far mostly due to several known causes. MillenniumDB and Blazegraph are the slowest. MillenniumDB is fast on simple queries, but slow on complex queries." https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4108/paper3.pdf

#wikidata #sparql #scholia

Wikipedians and other Wikimedians! Vote for the name of the wiki that will have language-independent articles that can be used on Wikipedia and other places when there is a gap!

Candidates are:
* Multilingual Wikipedia
* Wikigenerator
* Proto-Wiki
* Wikiabstracts
* Abstract Wikipedia

Vote here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Abstract_Wikipedia_naming_contest/Names

#Wikimedia #Wikipedia #Wikidata #Wikifunctions

Wikidata and decentral archives:

At the workshop Subverting Archival Practices (https://perfomap.de/newspictures/workshop_berlin_nov.pdf), I presented my thoughts on the role of #Wikidata for the now very widespread online archives of projects as websites (e.g., https://talkingobjectsarchive.org/ https://dekoloniale.de/ https://archive.transmediale.de/ https://archiv.ngbk.de/). Linking persons, events, places, objects on these websites to Wikidata would make them more visible, but also allow for research across these different archives.

A new aspect here is also Wikidata's possible role for #webarchiving, i.e. the storage of endangered websites in containers, namely by enabling references to individual pieces of information in the container once the original website is no longer available.

This was also tested with students of @magdalena at Aarhus university in October in the workshop "Data Modelling and Web Content at Risk", they referenced information from the https://dekoloniale.de/ website on Wikidata: https://cc.au.dk/en/c4cdp/news/show/artikel/data-modelling-and-web-content-at-risk-students-of-the-curating-data-course-explore-digital-preservation-through-wikidata-and-linked-open-data

Beim Workshop Subverting Archival Practices (https://perfomap.de/newspictures/workshop_berlin_nov.pdf) habe ich Überlegungen zur Rolle von #Wikidata für die inzwischen sehr verbreiteten online Archive von Projekten als Webseiten vorgestellt (z.B. dekoloniale.de), die mit Wikidata vernetzt und sichtbar gemacht werden können.
Auch für Web-Archivierung, also der Speicherung von bedrohten Webseiten in Containern zeichnet sich eine neue Rolle von Wikidata ab, nämlich auf die einzelnen Informationen im Container verweisen zu können.

Here is an updated version of the #NFDI graph: large nodes are consortia, small nodes are institutions. Graph created with data from #Wikidata, visualized with #Gephi, using force atlas algorithm and modularity class calculation.

Plus a version with the consortia categorized by scientific disciplines according to the #DFG Fachsystematik.

@NFDI #oneNFDI #NFDIrocks #RDM

Blogpost on my #Wikidata workshop at Aarhus University with Data Curation students in a seminar of Prof. Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver: https://cc.au.dk/en/c4cdp/news/show/artikel/data-modelling-and-web-content-at-risk-students-of-the-curating-data-course-explore-digital-preservation-through-wikidata-and-linked-open-data

“Working with research gathered in the framework of Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City (Dekoloniale) – a project and website dedicated to critically engaging with colonial histories in urban space – participants explored how open knowledge graphs can enhance data visibility and enable long-term cultural preservation.”

+ + + Empfehlung + + +

Veranstaltung
»Marburger Wissensräume: 500 Jahre Universitäts- und Wissensgeschichte mit Wikimedia bereitstellen«

Der Kunsthistoriker Peter Bell im Gespräch mit Henrike Haug
online
Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2025, ab 18:00 Uhr

Info & Zugangslink: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbeitsgemeinschaft_Kunstwissenschaften_%2B_Wikipedia/tips_%26_tools #kuwiki #Wikidata #Wikimedia

In case you missed it, I've recently published a trilogy of posts about adding Canadian legal data to #Wikidata in order to take advantage of linked data to find insights not currently possible with simple search.

1. How I use Zotero + OpenRefine + QuickStatements to create Scholia profiles from Wikidata (https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/08/01/how-i-use-zotero-openrefine-quickstatements-to-create-scholia-profiles-from-wikidata/)

2. How to get through a Scholarly split (https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/09/08/how-to-get-through-a-scholarly-split/)

3. All your Wikibase are belong to us: https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/09/09/all-your-wikibase-are-belong-to-us/

"QLever is the fastest engine overall, but is slower for distinct answers. Virtuoso is fast but diverges the most by far mostly due to several known causes. MillenniumDB and Blazegraph are the slowest. MillenniumDB is fast on simple queries, but slow on complex queries." https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4108/paper3.pdf

#wikidata #sparql #scholia

Wikipedians and other Wikimedians! Vote for the name of the wiki that will have language-independent articles that can be used on Wikipedia and other places when there is a gap!

Candidates are:
* Multilingual Wikipedia
* Wikigenerator
* Proto-Wiki
* Wikiabstracts
* Abstract Wikipedia

Vote here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Abstract_Wikipedia_naming_contest/Names

#Wikimedia #Wikipedia #Wikidata #Wikifunctions

Here is an updated version of the #NFDI graph: large nodes are consortia, small nodes are institutions. Graph created with data from #Wikidata, visualized with #Gephi, using force atlas algorithm and modularity class calculation.

Plus a version with the consortia categorized by scientific disciplines according to the #DFG Fachsystematik.

@NFDI #oneNFDI #NFDIrocks #RDM

As part of my Wikimedian in Residence position at the Bioeconomy Science Institute I've recently created documentation on linking publications to Natural History Collections in #Wikidata. A portion of this workflow uses @gbif literature tracking data. See https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17635241

As part of my Wikimedian in Residence position at the Bioeconomy Science Institute I've recently created documentation on linking publications to Natural History Collections in #Wikidata. A portion of this workflow uses @gbif literature tracking data. See https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17635241

Quite thrilled by the #nationalgaleryofart #nga catalogue. They even show the #wikidata qid of the objects. This is not very common.

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/