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Biodiversity Heritage Library report

Updates on work by BHL-Wiki working Group members

By Ambrosia10

Upcoming TDWG 2026 presentations

Siobhan Leachman (Ambrosia10), Sabine von Mering (S.v.Mering)and other members of the BHL Wiki working group are preparing a variety of presentations for the upcoming TDWG 2026 conference. Although not specifically presenting on BHL, several presentations will mention BHL or BHL identifiers related to the topics being presented on, including the Wikidata type specimen data model and the Wikidata and TDWG working group data model for research expeditions.

WoRMS Wikidata WikiProject

Siobhan and Sabine have also been contributing to the Who is who in Marine Taxonomy WikiProject. This recently formed Wikidata WikiProject has been initiated by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and aims to use Wikidata to store, structure, link, and openly share information on the people who described marine species. This work aligns with and can leverage off the disambiguation of BHL creators undertaken via their Wikidata items. Once disambiguated those creators can then be linked to their publications, assuming those publications also have Wikidata items. The Wikidata property WoRMS source id can be added to the Wikidata items for those publications, often joining the BHL publication id or BHL part id. This work has the potential to help WoRMS link to BHL in the WoRMS website.

BHL identifiers in Wikidata

Work is continuing by multiple editors on Biodiversity Heritage Library creator id mix’n’match dataset with new Wikidata identifiers being created for BHL creators without an existing Wikidata item.


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