[Webinar] From Drawers to the Open Web: Wikidata for Natural History Museum Collections
Are you looking for smarter ways to make your collection or biodiversity data more visible, more connected, and truly reusable? In this webinar, you’ll discover how to turn scattered datasets into an open, interoperable knowledge network – using Wikidata and the wider Wikimedia ecosystem as your collaborative backbone.
We’ll explore how natural science collections, research expeditions, specimens, people, places, and media can be woven together into a shared, FAIR-aligned knowledge infrastructure. Through hands-on examples, you’ll learn how to model collection objects and expedition data in Wikidata, link them to global resources, and enrich them with openly licensed media from Wikimedia Commons.
You’ll also see how community-driven curation ensures long-term data quality, and how structured data can seamlessly connect to Diamond Open Access publishing through platforms like WikiJournals. Whether you’re working in museums, biodiversity research, data stewardship, or digital humanities, this webinar offers a practical pathway into open, collaborative knowledge creation – “the Wiki way.”
Speaker: Daniel Mietchen
Language: English