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Biodiversity Heritage Library report

Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members

By Ambrosia10

A new Wikidata property relevant to the BHL-Wiki working group

Holotype specimen of Mecodema haunoho NZAC04067064

Brodie Hoare from the Auckland War Memorial Museum and Siobhan Leachman continue to collaborate on drafting a data model for type specimen Wikidata items as well as a data model for Structured Data on Commons to be used on specimen images. The WikiProject formed for this collaboration can be viewed at WikiProject Natural History Specimen Data Model.

As part of this work another Wikidata property proposed by Brodie have been accepted. This is the location collected property. Siobhan and Brodie continue to work on the proposed data model for type specimens and to map that model to the Darwin Core data standard terms. Documentation and workflows continue to be drafted and once complete will be open for feedback from the wider Wiki community.

Error report from the December 2025 BHL harvest of Author and Title identifiers from Wikidata

In December the BHL technical team again undertook their three monthly harvest of Author and Title identifiers from Wikidata. The error report of identifiers needing checking/fixing can be found here. Work continues to correct these errors both by the Wikidata community and the BHL cataloguers. Any help given to resolve Wikidata issues would be gratefully received.

BHL author template

A reminder that a Wikipedia template exists to link the Wikipedia article of an author to their works held on BHL. This template can be added to the External Links section of the author Wikipedia article. For more information see the BHL author template page.


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