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New Zealand Thesis Project Update and the upcoming TDWG 2026 conference
New Zealand Thesis Project Update
The New Zealand Thesis Project is a Wikidata-based project to collect together metadata from all New Zealand tertiary institutions to create a virtual national repository. In 2022 the project ran its first upload, collecting data from all universities and several polytechnics, and creating a dataset of more than 66,000 theses and dissertations. We have just updated this dataset with a further 14,000 theses, which we will be linking to authors, advisors and main subjects over the coming months. The dataset now covers New Zealand theses from 1907 to 2025. You can read more about the project on our English Wikipedia project page or on Wikidata.
Funded by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand, Ambrosia10 is preparing to attend the upcoming Biodiversity Data Standards (TDWG 2026) conference in Oslo. She has been collaborating with colleagues to organise the session Responsible AI, Open Digital Curation, and Round-Tripping for Biodiversity Data. Within that session she will be presenting on the recent work of the participants in Wikidata WikiProject Natural History Specimen Data Model to create a data model of Wikidata type specimen items.
She has also been invited to present in another session on Publishing and Communications Promoting Biodiversity, Natural History Collections, People, Data and Data Standards where she will be giving a brief presentation on broadcasting biodiversity data contributions via Wikidata and tools build or reusing Wikidata such as Bionomia, Scholia and Expeditia.
Finally a paper she is contributing to will be presented by her colleague Sabine von Mering on the Wikidata data model for research expeditions as created via the Wikidata WikiProject Research Expeditions.
- From the team
- Brazil report
- Catalan areas report
- Colombia report
- Czech Republic report
- Egypt report
- Italy report
- New Zealand report
- North Macedonia report
- Serbia report
- Switzerland report
- UK report
- Ukraine report
- USA report
- Biodiversity Heritage Library report
- Memory of the World report
- Wikimedia Commons report
- Calendar