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Biodiversity Heritage Library report

BHL-Wiki Working Group April monthly highlights

By Ambrosia10

The BHL-Wiki working group met on the 15th of April for their monthly get-together to discuss collaborations, progress on projects, data issues and solutions, and work being undertaken in the Wikiverse by members using BHL related content. Each meetings agenda, notes taken during the meetings and a link to a recordings of each meeting can be found here. Anyone contributing to the Wikiverse is very welcome to attend these meetings so please feel free to join us in May. Some of the highlights from the April meeting include the following:

Drafting best practice documentation

Members of the BHL-Wiki working group are in the process of contributing to several collaborations to produce best practice documentation for the creation of certain types of Wikidata items, the creation of a data model for Structured Data in Commons for BHL images, as well as best practice recommendations for the reuse of BHL identifiers and links in Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikicommons. These collaborations include drafting a Wikidata Type Specimen Data Model Proposal, developing a draft data model for images derived from publications in BHL for Structured Data on Commons and creating draft guidance for reuse of BHL identifiers in Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikicommons.

Part II: Transforming Biodiversity Heritage Library Images with Structured Data on Commons

Members of the BHL-Wiki working group helped organise and attended the second workshop aiming to create an agreed Structured Data on Commons schema to aid the addition of more detailed structured data to BHL sourced images in Wikicommons. This workshop helped generate the above mentioned draft best practice document and it is intended that this documentation will continue to be worked on during the BHL-Wiki working group meetings. A recording of that workshop can be found here, passcode:4%h^5K@a.

Wikipedia Library biodiversity resources

The Wikipedia Library is considering creating a spreadsheet linking to all journals accessible via the Wikipedia Library that contain knowledge related to biodiversity. The BHL-Wiki working group supports this proposal and recommends that members and other interested parties reach out to Giovanna Fontenelle with their favourite biodiversity resources they access via the Wikipedia Library.


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