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Biodiversity Heritage Library report

BHL-Wiki Working Group August monthly highlights

By Ambrosia10

Agenda and recording of the August 2024 meeting

The August meeting was recorded. The recording can be found here. Use Passcode: Q9Gk+MBQ.

The agenda for that meeting can be found at this link. The agenda lists the dates of future online meetings and the zoom link to join.

Any BHL-Wiki curious Wikimedian is very welcome to attend.

Wikimedian in Residence position

Interviews for the BHL Wikimedian-in-Residence position are progressing with five extremely qualified candidates. These interviews are being overseen by Wikiblueprint consulting. The procurement timeline at the Smithsonian Institute may take an extended portion of time but the aim is for an October or November start. However certain steps are out of the control of the Biodiversity Heritage Library so the BHL-Wiki working group and the wider wiki community will be kept updated on progess.

BHL-Wiki working group GitHub project board

An important introduction to the BHL-WIKI GitHub project board was given to the BHL-WIKI working group to empower all participants to track work, milestones, metrics and scholarly outputs related to the group. Members of the group should watch the meeting recording to get an introduction to this board as we intend to use this as our main project management and organisation system.
IMPORTANT: If group members would like access please email JJ Dearborn, the BHL Data Manager, your GitHub handle at DearbornJ “AT” si.edu.

BHL Flickr feed uploads

The BHL-technical team and BHL-Secretariat have decided to move forward with a trial effort to resurrect BHL's Flickr project after a period of testing. Testing will be conducted by Nicole Kearney, Michelle Marshall, and Siobhan Leachman. If successful Flickr uploads will again be opened up to all BHL partners, with documentation and policies in place for the community.

Note: These efforts will be community-led and not centrally managed as they were in the past. BHL Administrative oversight and Tech support will not be available.

The BHL-Wiki working group sees this as important as the BHL Flickr feed was an important source of historical biodiversity images with many already being uploaded into Wikimedia Commons. The ability of BHL partners to contribute images to the BHL Flickr account will make it easier for Wiki folk to access and upload these important biodiversity images, particularly with the ongoing development of the Flickypedia tool.

August outreach

Engaging with Wikidata. Benefits and impacts for botanists and institutions. XX International Botanical Congress (2024), Madrid. Poster Session.

Ambrosia10 and other participants of BHL-Wiki working group including S.v.Mering undertook various outreach events during August. These included the following:

  • Natural History Museum, London & Kew staff “Wikidata is the way” presentation
  • Wikimania presentations about work undertaken which was reliant on or made use of BHL content or identifiers -
WikiProject IBC (with Stitchbird2 and S.v.Mering)
Hidden Figures presentation about creating a course based undergraduate research experience (CURE)
Women Genera project (with S.v.Mering) about creating a linked open dataset in Wikidata on women after whom flowering plant genera have been named.


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