Wikimedia Deutschland/Data Partnerships Team

Data Partnerships Team

Partnerships around all things Wikidata and Wikibase

We see Data Partnerships as a key component of our larger strategy and vision for Wikidata and Wikibase. Through Data Partnerships, we aim to contribute to a healthy and community-driven Linked Open Data web. This web of Linked Open Data should be accessible, usable, inclusive and diverse, ultimately increasing the sum of free knowledge.

Data Partnerships is embedded within the Software Communications team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland. SCoT handles a variety of communications roles and chiefly operates as an intermediary between WMDE’s Software Development department and the Wikiverse.

Find out more about our Data Partnerships Model

Get in touch: swe_partnerships(at)wikimedia.de

Some of our Data Partners

Together with the local Wikimedian communities, we are aware or have worked with the following institutions across the world on data partnership activities (in alphabetical order):

Environmental Projects

• SemanticClimate- Wikidata & Wikibase
• SmartPlanet- Wikibase

Galleries

• National Gallery of Art (Washington)- Wikibase
• Prater Gallery- Wikibase
• Rhizome Artbase- Wikibase

Libraries

• Berkeley Law Library (US)- Wikibase
• British Library- Wikidata & Wikibase
• Library of Congress- Wikidata & Wikibase
• National Library of the Czech Republic- Wikidata & Wikibase
• The National Library of France (Bibliothèque nationale de France)- Wikidata & Wikibase
• Finnish National Library- Wikibase
• The German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)- Wikidata & Wikibase
• University of Ghana Library- Wikidata (see Report)
• National Library of Greece- Wikidata & Wikibase
• Hong Kong Baptist University Library- Wikidata
• Kenya National Library Services- Wikibase
• National Library of Luxembourg- Wikibase
• National Library of the Netherlands (Bibliotheek Nederland)- Wikidata & Wikibase (see here)
• Samson Adedoyin Library (Glorious Vision University Library) in Nigeria- Wikidata & Wikibase
• National Library of Portugal- Wikidata
• National Library Board of Singapore- Wikidata
• The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (US)- Wikidata and Wikibase (see Smithsonian's WikiProject PCC Pilot, Chinese Ancestors Portraits Project & Wikidata, and blog post here)
• National Library of Wales- Wikibase instance here

Projects in the pipeline

* College of Science Library, KNUST in Ghana- Wikibase

* National Library of Nigeria- Wikidata

Archives

• 20th Century Press Archives (ZBW)- Wikidata (see WikiProject 20th Century Press Archives and here for blog posts of the project)
• Center for Documenting Independent Culture (Croatia)- Wikibase
• Evans-Tibbs Archive (National Gallery of Art, US)- Wikibase (see here for more info about the project.)
• My Community (Singapore)- Wikibase (see My Community Archives and category on Commons
• WMF Memory Bank- Wikibase

Museums

• National Museum & the National History Museum of Sweden- Wikidata for authority control, a collaboration between Wikimedia Sverige, the Nationalmuseum and the National Historical Museums of Sweden
• Research Institute of World’s Ancient Traditions Cultures and Heritage (RIWATCH)- Wikibase (see Wikibase.cloud instance and category on Commons.
• Städel Museum- Wikidata (see WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up)

Research, Learning & Discovery Hubs

• Conzept encyclopedia- Wikidata
• Depositar- Wikidata (project by Academia Sinica in Taiwan)
• Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS)- Wikidata (creation of the DWDS lemma ID on Wikidata for German lexemes. See Property Discussion here.)
• Enslaved.org project- Wikibase
• eViterbo- Wikibase (see instance here)
• FactGrid- Wikibase
• EXC2020 Temporal Communities, Freie Universität Berlin- Wikidata & Wikibase
• Histropedia- Wikidata
• King's College London- Wikidata
• JDCRP's Adolf Schloss collection- Wikibase
• MiMoTextBase- Wikibase (see here for excellent tutorial on various topics, such as SPARQL queries, in the MimoText project.)
• Restitution of Knowledge- Wikidata ("The Restitution of Knowledge: Artefacts as archives in the (post)colonial museum" is a DFG-AHRC funded research project that brings together the Pitt-Rivers-Museum, the University of Oxford, and the Institute for Art History at the Technical University in Berlin. It aims at mapping knowledge generated by a DFG-AHRC research project on the history of colonial violence and the plunder of African cultural heritage.)
• Scholia- Wikidata
• Open Science Lab, TIB Hannover- Wikibase
• Qichwabase- Wikibase (see instance here)

Government and related LOD Projects

• Austria Transition to Open Access (AT20A)- Wikidata
• Bayerische DigitalAgentur (BYTE)- Wikidata
• EU Vocabularies & EuroVoc- Wikidata
• GEPRIS Historisch- Wikidata (see project details here.)
• Govdirectory- Wikidata
• Umwelt.info- Wikidata

Commercial/ Industry Entities

• IBM Research- Wikidata
• JSTOR Labs- Wikidata
• Orange- Wikidata

Past Presentations/ Materials

Here are some of our past presentation materials:

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  ESEAP24 Use cases for the Region (2024)
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  ESEAP24 Data Partnerships 2024 & Beyond (2024)
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  Wikidata Days: Wondrous World of Wikibase (2023)
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  Wikimania 2023: Intro to Wikidata Partnerships
• Wikibase_Journey_and_Future_(2023)
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  IFLA Mismatch Finder LOD presentation (2023)
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  Wikidata Mismatch Finder brochure
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  Wikibase Brochure
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  Open Data Day Taiwan 2023
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  Linked Open Data presentation for BYTE (2023)
• Opening talk for 'Public Archives and Participation' Wikimedia Technology Summit 2023
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  How WMDE can support partnerships with GLAM institutions for Wikibase and Wikidata projects