GLAM/Newsletter/May 2025/Contents/Biodiversity Heritage Library report
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BHL-Wiki Working Group May monthly highlights
Agenda & notes of the May 2025 meeting
The agenda for the meeting can be found at this link. The agenda document gives notes taken during the meeting, action items, as well as the dates of future online meetings and the zoom link to join.
The BHL wiki working group meetings will now be paused. See the section on charting the future of the BHL-Wiki working group below for more information.
JJ Dearborn leaving
JJ Dearborn is leaving BHL and her last day will be the 1st of June 2025. Siobhan Leachman, Chair of the BHL-Wiki working group, on behalf of the group and herself expressed gratitude for all that JJ has contributed and thanked JJ for all her efforts.
Charting the Future of BHL-WIKI in a reduced capacity environment
In light of the funding situation BHL currently finds itself in as well as the limited capacity of the BHL secretariat to provide administrative and project management support for the working group meetings, it was decided by the attendees of the May 2025 meeting to pause the monthly meetings of the BHL-Wiki working group. However members of the group undertook to continue to work on BHL content and data in the Wikiverse. It was also decided to keep the telegram active to ensure communication lines are kept open between BHL and Wiki affiliated members.
Wikidata QID updates to BHL catalogue
Mike Lichtenberg, the BHL Lead Developer, is currently working on ensuring that Wikidata Qids are periodically refreshed in the BHL Catalogue. He sought guidance from the working group on what type of report was required to be generated regarding this work. The group recommended that the Wikidata Qid report be generated after the refresh of the catalogue, that the report be downloadable to ensure group members can ingest it into OpenRefine to assist in resolving any Wikidata issues. It was resolved that this report be sent to the BHL Metacat group as Siobhan is a member. She will then either undertake this reconciliation work herself or alternatively pass the report on to other Wikidata editors that can assist.
Best Practice document for using BHL identifiers
The best practice document for using BHL identifiers in Wiki is now complete.
Upcoming conferences
Two upcoming conferences were discussed. The GLAMWiki 2025 conference was mentioned with the scholarship application website (7 June due date) and the program application website being shared.
The Living Data 2025 conference was also discussed with Tiago Lubiana making the group aware of his session at the conference Wikimedia and Biodiversity Data: A mutualistic Relationship in the Open Knowledge Ecosystem and inviting submissions from the group.
Type specimens and a property for "collector"
A discussion was held on the need for a property for “collector” both to complete a data model for type specimens and also to assist with ensuring the structured data on commons model for specimen images in Wikimedia Commons is complete.
- Albania report
- Belgium report
- Brazil report
- Croatia report
- Czech Republic report
- Europe report
- India report
- Indonesia report
- Italy report
- Kosovo report
- New Zealand report
- Nigeria report
- Poland report
- Serbia report
- Spain report
- Switzerland report
- UK report
- Ukraine report
- USA report
- Biodiversity Heritage Library report
- Memory of the World report
- Calendar