GLAM/Newsletter/July 2026/Contents/Biodiversity Heritage Library report
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Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung joins BHL
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung has joined BHL as a partner institution. More information can be found in this press release.
Wikimania 2026 posters
Two posters at Wikimania 2026 in Paris had links to BHL. The Open Science National Museum of Natural History poster gave information of that organisation's contributions to BHL. Also a poster titled “Wikidata in the real world” had a link to the BHL gallery explorer tool created by editor Tiago Lubiana. Images of these posters were shared with the wider BHL community in the BHL forum. Wiki folk interested in working with BHL content are welcome to join this forum.
Wikimania biodiversity lunchtime meetup
At Wikimania there was also a Biodiversity lunchtime meetup where editors gathered to discuss editing various language Wikipedias, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. Ambrosia10 discussed the Biodiversity Heritage Library, the BHL-Wiki working group and the BHL-Wiki meta page and also gave information on ways editors can contribute BHL content to Wiki platforms.
Type Catalogues in Wikidata
A recent paper by Wikidata editor Dr. Sabine von Mering has been published on work she and her colleagues have undertaken to ensure type catalogues have a presence in Wikidata. Items for these publications have been enriched or created and linked to Wikidata items relating to authors, collectors and specimen determiners. This publication used BHL data as well as information in sources made available by BHL. See this link to read that paper.
BHL identifiers in Wikidata
Work is continuing by multiple editors on BHL Identifiers needing review as well as the Biodiversity Heritage Library creator id mix’n’match dataset.
