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Wikimedia UK joins N-RICH project to connect UK cultural heritage through Wikidata
Wikimedia UK is proud to be collaborating on a new project exploring how Wikidata and Linked Open Data can help create a more connected digital infrastructure for the UK’s cultural…
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VocalEyes and Wikidata: Making accessibility information easily available
VocalEyes plays a vital role in making arts and heritage accessible for blind and visually impaired, D/deaf, hard of hearing, and neurodivergent visitors. They do this in a range of…
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The Archaeology Data Service and Wikidata
I’m a big fan of the Archaeology Data Service (ADS). Its online library is packed with digitised articles, books, and reports. Looking in from the outside I have seen its…
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Call for improving Wikipedia’s museum content
International Museum Day 2022 / About 20 Wikimedia Chapters around the world join forces
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Connected Heritage partnerships
We’re pleased to announce the first of our partnerships resulting from our Connected Heritage training. While the webinars are free for anyone working in the cultural heritage sector to attend,…
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Happy Birthday Wikidata!
It’s Wikidata’s 8th birthday today, and we’re incredibly proud of Wikipedia’s lesser known little sister. Twenty years ago an incredible idea was made reality in the form of a democratic…
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Education booklet – Imperial College London
Extract from the Education booklet case study, written by Wikimedia UK and University of Edinburgh.
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Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data
Between 1560 and 1689, there were some 1,100 parishes in Scotland, each one served by a minister who, ideally, preached sermons once or twice a week, offered communion at least…
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Reflections on Roberta’s internship as it comes to an end
In 2019 Wikimedia UK, Archaeology Scotland and The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland recruited a graduate intern through the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities Internship programme. These funded…
