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This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue II, February 2025

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Brazil report

Wiki and COP30 in the Amazon rainforest

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By Sandra Soster

As we told in our August 2024 report, Wikimedia Brasil was the main organizer of the project "Amazonian Knowledge on Wiki" with funding from Wikimedia Switzerland and Creative Commons. It disseminated information about the biodiversity of the Pará Amazon. The collections, especially those related to biodiversity, emphasize the crucial role of open knowledge in preparation for COP-30, which will happen in Belém in November 2025.

During "Amazonian Knowledge on Wiki", we've uploaded the herbarium collection of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) available at REFLORA platform. The 10,684 uploaded images depict over 1,800 species of plants. 1,121 of those species had their first image thanks to this collection (i.e., now they have a P18 on Wikidata). You may see the final visual report on the right.

In February, we have formalized our GLAM-Wiki partnership with the Museu Goeldi and uploaded metadata on 3,178 locations of other phyla to Wikidata. The Wikidata Q identifiers already existed, but the majority of them did not have values for taxon range (P9714).

Most of the species in this batch were located in Belém (304), Pará (153), Melgaço (116), Juruti (104), Novo Progresso (89), Coari (66), Altamira (55), Itaituba (54), Amazonas (53), Conceição do Araguaia (50). Some specimens were collected abroad, such as in Peru (19), Arizona (16), Nicaragua (15), Poland (11), Kansas (9), Polish Baltic Coast (7), United Kingdom (6), French Guiana (5), Oklahoma (4), and Parima (3).

The batch was composed of 1,060 Arthropoda (invertebrates with jointed exoskeletons), 1,024 Chordata (animals), 477 Squamata (reptiles), 328 Anura (short bodied, tailless amphibians), and 141 Mollusca (invertebrate animals).

See the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi GLAM page and the uploaded media.

Wikiproject Dia de Doar

Dia de Doar is a movement that promotes generosity and a culture of giving, connecting people and fostering a more compassionate society. It celebrates the act of giving and encourages this habit continuously. The movement is decentralized, providing materials so anyone can create their own initiative. It happens thanks to those who donate or encourage donations in their communities. The partnership between Wikimedia Brasil and Dia de Doar aims to improve our funding campaigns, joining efforts to recruit new donors for WMB.

See the Dia de Doar GLAM page

Historical tiles of Maranhão

As we told in our last report, 2025 is the year of the State of Maranhão on Wikimedia platforms. Part of the GLAM activities related to this campaign is improve information on State cultural institutions, events and heritage on Wikidata.

São Luís, the state capital, is known for its large number of historic buildings covered with old ceramic tiles, usually featuring geometric patterns, which were cataloged in the publication Inventário do Patrimônio Azulejar do Maranhão by Zelinda Lima (2012). The analysis of this inventory enabled the addition of 767 new items to Wikidata, resulting in new points on the map of suggested buildings to be photographed in September for Wiki Loves Monuments Brazil 2025. This edition will feature a special prize for the best photograph from Maranhão.

New upload from Musica Brasilis

Musica Brasilis brings to you another 374 sheet musics by 117 Brazilian composers. Among them:

Musica Brasilis is a project and a portal that makes available Brazilian music repertoires of all times and genres, but mostly metadata about Brazilian composers and scores. Rosana Lanzelotte is one of the Brazilian leading harpsichordists and the coordinator of this huge and ambitious project that aims to rescue, catalog and disseminate Brazilian compositions from neglected paper collections to open-licensed digital sheet musics.

See the Musica Brasilis' GLAM page and the uploaded media.

Black Presence in APESP

Presença Negra no Arquivo is the title of the in-person exhibition currently on display at the Public Archive of the State of São Paulo. On its 133rd anniversary, APESP shares with the world, under free licenses, 89 historical images that showcase a small portion of the presence of Black people in the documents preserved by the institution. The documents, from the 18th to the 20th century, depict the struggles of the enslaved population for freedom, justice, and equality.

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The discovered documents include records of escapes, the formation of quilombos, manumission letters, and other forms of resistance and struggle for autonomy and freedom undertaken by the Black population. In the post-abolition period, there is also a strong presence of the press, highlighting the role of Black individuals in shaping Brazilian nationality and the ongoing fight for rights and full citizenship, reflected in the organization of various movements and the country's cultural life. - APESP

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See the Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo GLAM page and the uploaded media.

WMB is a member of TAROCH Coalition

Wikimedia Brasil is part of the TAROCH Coalition (Towards a Recommendation on Open Cultural Heritage) launched by Creative Commons (CC). This is a collaborative effort supported by Arcadia Fund aiming the adoption of a UNESCO standard-setting instrument to improve open access to cultural heritage.

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The ultimate goal of the TAROCH Coalition is that cultural heritage is equitably accessible to all, in line with UNESCO’s broader mission and cultural and information policy, in particular intercultural dialog and cultural exchanges, thereby contributing to building more connected, resilient, and sustainable societies. - Creative Commons (CC)

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