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