Hi all,
Apologies in advance if this isn't the best place to ask this question...
I am a volunteer at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and am
working to optimize the organization and discoverability of its
publications in BHL and also on Wiki platforms.
I am currently working on publications of Theodore D. A. Cockerel
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_D._A._Cockerell>l
In the External Links section of the Wikipedia article about him I'd like
to add a link labeled 'Works by T. D. A. Cockerell at BHL" that points to
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/creator/1941#/titles. IMO, this is
justifiable since the links to his publications in Internet Archives don't
include articles by Cockerell for the most part.
Before proceeding, I'd like to know if people think that such links are
warranted and useful for this Wikipedia article and others.
Thanks in advance for advising me!
Susan Lynch
FYI --
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Sent: Friday, December 20, 2024 4:47:27 AM
To: communication <communication(a)gbif.org>
Subject: Living Data 2025 call for sessions
External Email - Exercise Caution
Dear GBIF colleagues,
We’re pleased to announce the opening of the call for sessions for Living Data 2025, a joint meeting of the TDWG, GBIF, OBIS and GEO BON networks, hosted by Instituto Humboldt from 21 to 24 October in Bogotá, Colombia.
We and our co-organizers invite you to submit your proposal<https://www.livingdata2025.com/calls.html> for an organized session at Datos Vivos/Living Data 2025. Sessions should reflect the work of GBIF<https://www.gbif.org/>, OBIS<https://obis.org/>, TDWG<https://www.tdwg.org/> and GEO BON<https://geobon.org/>, including, but not limited to, monitoring and observation of the natural world, data standards, data mobilization and the ways in which these efforts contribute to policy-making and our understanding of bio- and geodiversity.
Sessions should reflect at least one of Living Data’s four themes<https://www.livingdata2025.com/themes.html>:
1. Open data
2. Data integration
3. Biodiversity data application
4. Community engagement, participation and capacity building
Organized sessions can be symposia, panel discussions, lightning sessions, and other formats in which the primary purpose is to convey information and engage the audience. Workshops are welcome, but must be approved by the Organizing Committee in prior to submission.
We will promote this call vigorously after the holiday break, and hope you can help us with that work beginning early in January.
Learn more about this call and submit your proposal on the Datos Vivos 2025 website<https://www.livingdata2025.com/>. Contact the organizers<mailto:info@livingdata2025.com> with questions or to propose a workshop.
All the best,
Kyle
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Hello,
I have started doing biweekly status updates on the WiR work and would love
to share them with you. If you have ideas, feedback, requests, and more,
just let me know!
If you rather read them on wiki, they are available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BHL/Our_outcomes/WiR/Status_updates/2024-12…
.
(These are a bit old, as the sharing here failed for some reason, I hope it
works this time!)
The BHL-Wiki Meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BHL_Meta-Wiki_page_draft_(2024-12-05).…>A
draft for the BHL page on Meta.
These two weeks were dedicated mostly to organizing the Biodiversity
Heritage Library presence across the Wikimedia Projects.
After a good conversation with Gio
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)>, there was a big
re-shape of the BHL-Wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BHL> page on
Meta. The goal was to provide comprehensive coverage of the BHL-Wiki
activities, but also to the BHL pages on Wiki to look beautiful.
For that, the design of the pages was inspired on Wiki Loves Living Heritage
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage> and the great
work of Susanna Ånäs <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Susannaanas> in
making it look modern and fresh while being useful, maintainable and
direct. This required me to exercise my web-dev muscles and dive into the
CSS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS> and styling details of
documentation pages, for example the GLAMportals/style.css
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:GLAMportals/style.css> file and
the templates that rely on it, such as the Template:GLAMportals/Box
GLAMportals/Box
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:GLAMportals/Box%20GLAMportals/Box>.
I also thank Ambrosia10 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10> for
picking some extraordinary images for the gallery on the front page.
The subpages, for the moment, are still in Gio
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)>'s namespace, as we
prepare it for a release in the following weeks. It is, of course, open to
contributions and ideas, after all, the page needs to live.
One particular highlight of the Portal is the Listeria-powered
<https://listeria.toolforge.org/> query for the BHL partners, painting a
beautiful picture of the institutions that form BHL at Our community
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)/BHL/Our_community>.
The BHL-Wiki pages on Commons, English Wikipedia and Wikidata.
As the Meta page gets ready, I also took time to refresh the project pages
for BHL on Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library>,
English
Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/BHL> and Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject%20BHL>. The idea here
was both to redirect users to the new multiproject page on Meta, but also
to reorganize legacy information. Some of the pages had been left in years,
giving the impression that the BHL-Wiki collaboration was way less active
than it really is.
During this reshape, I did my best to preserve and acknowledge the
contributors of BHL on Wiki along the way, and avoid anachronism
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anachronism>. The goals of the projects
change with time, and it is important to make sure the views, goals and
contributions of past participants are not represented.
I added, for example, a session on the History of the Commons:BHL Project
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library#Hi…>,
with a highlight to the work of Gaurav
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gaurav> and Fæ
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:F%C3%A6> to make it all happen.
Statistics on Wikidata for the BHL-Wiki group
I am also working on the statistics for the BHL-Wiki activities in the
Wikimedia ecosystem.
There are, from my perspective, two kinds of statistics/metrics that are
interesting to track:
- The impact of the BHL-Wiki working group and volunteers in the
Wikimedia universe and
- The impact of the Wikimedian-in-Residence on this
I have started working on these background metrics. One first step was a
rebuild of the Wikidata:WikiProject_BHL/Statistics
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_BHL/Statistics> page,
adding many new queries that track usage of the 6 different BHL ID
properties on Wikidata. Here is the summary:
PID Name Count (items) Mix'n'Match
P4327 BHL Bibliography ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4327>
64,358 #1131 <https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/1131> (64,415 out
of 136,083)
P687 BHL Page ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P687> 78,324 -
P4081 BHL Creator ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4081> 35,319
#506 <https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/506> (46,169 out of
234990)
P6535 BHL Part ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6535> 17,129 -
P8724 BHL Name ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8724> 572 -
P11959 BHL Item ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11959> 60 -
Total BHL IDs mapped on Wikidata (as of 2024-12-03): *205,445!*
Statistics on Commons for the BHL-Wiki group
On Commons, there is still some extra work to decide our metrics of
interest, including finishing the data model
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/Mo…>.
To get started, by using the Commons Query Service, I got the number of
images that comply completely with the current metadata model (query link
<https://commons-query.wikimedia.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FbhlPageID%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcollection%20%3FcollectionLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcopyrightStatus%20%3FcopyrightStatusLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FlicenseUrl%20%3FlicenseUrlLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FinstanceOf%20%3FinstanceOfLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FpublishedIn%20%3FpublishedInLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fsponsor%20%3FsponsorLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FbhlCreatorID%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrightsStatement%20%3FrightsStatementLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Finception%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Flanguage%20%3FlanguageLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcreator%20%3FcreatorLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FflickrPhotoID%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FbhlPageID%20%3Fcollection%20%3FcopyrightStatus%20%3FlicenseUrl%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FinstanceOf%20%3FpublishedIn%20%3Fsponsor%20%3FbhlCreatorID%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrightsStatement%20%3Finception%20%3Flanguage%20%3Fcreator%20%3FflickrPhotoID%0A%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Required%20properties%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP687%20%3FbhlPageID.%20%23%20BHL%20Page%20ID%20%28PageID%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP195%20%3Fcollection.%20%23%20Collection%20%28HoldingInstitution%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP6216%20%3FcopyrightStatus.%20%23%20Copyright%20Status%20%28CopyrightStatus%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP275%20%3FlicenseUrl.%20%23%20Copyright%20License%20%28LicenseUrl%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3FinstanceOf.%20%23%20Instance%20of%20%28PageTypes%20-%20TypeName%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1433%20%3FpublishedIn.%20%23%20Published%20In%20%28Title%29%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20VALUES%20%3FpublishedIn%20%7Bwd%3AQ103204%20%7D%20%7D%20%23%20Ignore%20Published%20In%20--%3E%20Flickr%20bits%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP859%20%3Fsponsor.%20%23%20Sponsor%0A%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Recommended%20properties%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP4081%20%3FbhlCreatorID.%20%7D%20%23%20BHL%20creator%20ID%20%28AuthorID%29%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP6426%20%3FrightsStatement.%20%7D%20%23%20RightsStatements.org%20statement%20%28Rights%29%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Finception.%20%7D%20%23%20Inception%20%28ItemEndYear%29%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP407%20%3Flanguage.%20%7D%20%23%20Language%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcreator.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP170%20%5Bps%3AP170%20%3Fcreator%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2093%20%22Biodiversity%20Heritage%20Library%22%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20%23%20Creator%20%28Authors%20-%20Name%29%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP12120%20%3FflickrPhotoID.%20%7D%20%23%20Flickr%20Photo%20ID%20%28PhotoID%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25items%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25items%20.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20Federate%20with%20Wikidata%20to%20get%20labels%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcollection%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcollectionLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FcollectionLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FcopyrightStatus%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcopyrightStatusLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FcopyrightStatusLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FlicenseUrl%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FlicenseUrlLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FlicenseUrlLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FinstanceOf%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FinstanceOfLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FinstanceOfLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FpublishedIn%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpublishedInLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FpublishedInLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fsponsor%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FsponsorLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FsponsorLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0A>).
On Nov 28, 2024, it listed only 3 files , a number that is growing fast,
mostly through the dedicated work of Ambrosia10
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10>, following the OpenRefine
tutorials by Spinster <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Spinster>, as
well as creating a BHL version of the tutorial
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ZU0pxdptBJYDjM9lkyF4mr_y3r52isFD5Des2k…>
.
More current metrics are unavailable as the Commons Query Service (as of
Dec 5) seems to be down.
I have also set up a GLAMorous Dashboard
<https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=Files+from+th…>
for the category, where it is possible to see where the 300,000 BHL files
are being reused. There are over 15,000 items on Wikidata and over 5,000
pages on English Wikipedia using BHL images!
The BHL Userbox
Userboxes are a way for Wikimedia users to identify the projects they work
on or support, as well as personal preferences and languages spoken. I have
set up a Userbox for BHL on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL>, Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL>, Wikipedia in English
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL>, Wikipedia in Portuguese
<https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Userbox/BHL> and Commons
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL>. Now you can show your
appreciation for BHL across the Wiki landscape:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aid_to_the_identification_of_insects_(…>
This user loves the
*Biodiversity Heritage Library
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)/BHL>*
Other updates
- The next steps for the Meta page include a general clean-up and
review, a migration to the main namespace, adding support for translation
to multiple languages and sharing it widely, everywhere :)
- We are starting to look at the data model for Structured Data on
Commons and add this metadata in batch, first thing after the deployment of
the Meta page!
- Talks with the FlickypediaBackfillrBot
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FlickypediaBackfillrBot> are
ongoing – I have provided Alex with a set of BHL files to prioritize. There
are many BHL files on Wiki, however, that seem to have come not from
Flickr, but from other sources, these will require an extra step, probably
a Bot. An investigation on how these files ended up on Wiki – and how to
retroactively add BHL and Flickr IDs is ongoing, with some details at
Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/Fae_uploads
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/F%…>
.
- While navigating the old logs, we re-discovered a nice project
documentation by Ambrosia10 on Women Illustrators:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BHL/2018_Women_Scientific_Illu…
- Based on a conversation with Spinster
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Spinster>, I have made a Firefox &
Chrome add-on that shows BHL images on new tabs, similar to
https://tab.hatnote.com. The source code is available at
https://github.com/lubianat/bhlwiki_tabs and I have sent the add-on for
review on both Chrome and Firefox stores. I will share these links when
they become available.
- The property "scientific_illustration
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/scientific_illustr…>"
is ready for creation on Wikidata, waiting for some *propertycreator
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_creators>*
to take the last step and make it available. It will help us enrich
Wikidata with beautiful, scientifically important images even for taxa with
good photographic coverage on the main image
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P18> property.
- I have been sharing BHL-Wiki content frequently on Bluesky where you
can find some updates: https://bsky.app/profile/tiagolubiana.bsky.social
Thank you for reading,
Cheers,
Tiago
Hello,
I have started doing biweekly status updates on the WiR work and would love
to share them with you. If you have ideas, feedback, requests, and more,
just let me know!
If you rather read them on wiki, they are available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BHL/Our_outcomes/WiR/Status_updates/2024-12…
.
The BHL-Wiki Meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BHL_Meta-Wiki_page_draft_(2024-12-05).…>A
draft for the BHL page on Meta.
These two weeks were dedicated mostly to organizing the Biodiversity
Heritage Library presence across the Wikimedia Projects.
After a good conversation with Gio
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)>, there was a big
re-shape of the BHL-Wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BHL> page on
Meta. The goal was to provide comprehensive coverage of the BHL-Wiki
activities, but also to the BHL pages on Wiki to look beautiful.
For that, the design of the pages was inspired on Wiki Loves Living Heritage
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage> and the great
work of Susanna Ånäs <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Susannaanas> in
making it look modern and fresh while being useful, maintainable and
direct. This required me to exercise my web-dev muscles and dive into the
CSS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS> and styling details of
documentation pages, for example the GLAMportals/style.css
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:GLAMportals/style.css> file and
the templates that rely on it, such as the Template:GLAMportals/Box
GLAMportals/Box
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:GLAMportals/Box%20GLAMportals/Box>.
I also thank Ambrosia10 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10> for
picking some extraordinary images for the gallery on the front page.
The subpages, for the moment, are still in Gio
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)>'s namespace, as we
prepare it for a release in the following weeks. It is, of course, open to
contributions and ideas, after all, the page needs to live.
One particular highlight of the Portal is the Listeria-powered
<https://listeria.toolforge.org/> query for the BHL partners, painting a
beautiful picture of the institutions that form BHL at Our community
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)/BHL/Our_community>.
The BHL-Wiki pages on Commons, English Wikipedia and Wikidata.
As the Meta page gets ready, I also took time to refresh the project pages
for BHL on Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library>,
English
Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/BHL> and Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject%20BHL>. The idea here
was both to redirect users to the new multiproject page on Meta, but also
to reorganize legacy information. Some of the pages had been left in years,
giving the impression that the BHL-Wiki collaboration was way less active
than it really is.
During this reshape, I did my best to preserve and acknowledge the
contributors of BHL on Wiki along the way, and avoid anachronism
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anachronism>. The goals of the projects
change with time, and it is important to make sure the views, goals and
contributions of past participants are not represented.
I added, for example, a session on the History of the Commons:BHL Project
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library#Hi…>,
with a highlight to the work of Gaurav
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gaurav> and Fæ
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:F%C3%A6> to make it all happen.
Statistics on Wikidata for the BHL-Wiki group
I am also working on the statistics for the BHL-Wiki activities in the
Wikimedia ecosystem.
There are, from my perspective, two kinds of statistics/metrics that are
interesting to track:
- The impact of the BHL-Wiki working group and volunteers in the
Wikimedia universe and
- The impact of the Wikimedian-in-Residence on this
I have started working on these background metrics. One first step was a
rebuild of the Wikidata:WikiProject_BHL/Statistics
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_BHL/Statistics> page,
adding many new queries that track usage of the 6 different BHL ID
properties on Wikidata. Here is the summary:
PID Name Count (items) Mix'n'Match
P4327 BHL Bibliography ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4327>
64,358 #1131 <https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/1131> (64,415 out
of 136,083)
P687 BHL Page ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P687> 78,324 -
P4081 BHL Creator ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4081> 35,319
#506 <https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/506> (46,169 out of
234990)
P6535 BHL Part ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6535> 17,129 -
P8724 BHL Name ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8724> 572 -
P11959 BHL Item ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11959> 60 -
Total BHL IDs mapped on Wikidata (as of 2024-12-03): *205,445!*
Statistics on Commons for the BHL-Wiki group
On Commons, there is still some extra work to decide our metrics of
interest, including finishing the data model
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/Mo…>.
To get started, by using the Commons Query Service, I got the number of
images that comply completely with the current metadata model (query link
<https://commons-query.wikimedia.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FbhlPageID%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcollection%20%3FcollectionLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcopyrightStatus%20%3FcopyrightStatusLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FlicenseUrl%20%3FlicenseUrlLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FinstanceOf%20%3FinstanceOfLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FpublishedIn%20%3FpublishedInLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fsponsor%20%3FsponsorLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FbhlCreatorID%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrightsStatement%20%3FrightsStatementLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Finception%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Flanguage%20%3FlanguageLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcreator%20%3FcreatorLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FflickrPhotoID%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FbhlPageID%20%3Fcollection%20%3FcopyrightStatus%20%3FlicenseUrl%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FinstanceOf%20%3FpublishedIn%20%3Fsponsor%20%3FbhlCreatorID%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrightsStatement%20%3Finception%20%3Flanguage%20%3Fcreator%20%3FflickrPhotoID%0A%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Required%20properties%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP687%20%3FbhlPageID.%20%23%20BHL%20Page%20ID%20%28PageID%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP195%20%3Fcollection.%20%23%20Collection%20%28HoldingInstitution%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP6216%20%3FcopyrightStatus.%20%23%20Copyright%20Status%20%28CopyrightStatus%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP275%20%3FlicenseUrl.%20%23%20Copyright%20License%20%28LicenseUrl%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3FinstanceOf.%20%23%20Instance%20of%20%28PageTypes%20-%20TypeName%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1433%20%3FpublishedIn.%20%23%20Published%20In%20%28Title%29%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20VALUES%20%3FpublishedIn%20%7Bwd%3AQ103204%20%7D%20%7D%20%23%20Ignore%20Published%20In%20--%3E%20Flickr%20bits%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP859%20%3Fsponsor.%20%23%20Sponsor%0A%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Recommended%20properties%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP4081%20%3FbhlCreatorID.%20%7D%20%23%20BHL%20creator%20ID%20%28AuthorID%29%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP6426%20%3FrightsStatement.%20%7D%20%23%20RightsStatements.org%20statement%20%28Rights%29%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Finception.%20%7D%20%23%20Inception%20%28ItemEndYear%29%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP407%20%3Flanguage.%20%7D%20%23%20Language%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcreator.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP170%20%5Bps%3AP170%20%3Fcreator%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2093%20%22Biodiversity%20Heritage%20Library%22%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20%23%20Creator%20%28Authors%20-%20Name%29%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP12120%20%3FflickrPhotoID.%20%7D%20%23%20Flickr%20Photo%20ID%20%28PhotoID%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25items%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25items%20.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20Federate%20with%20Wikidata%20to%20get%20labels%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcollection%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcollectionLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FcollectionLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FcopyrightStatus%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcopyrightStatusLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FcopyrightStatusLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FlicenseUrl%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FlicenseUrlLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FlicenseUrlLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FinstanceOf%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FinstanceOfLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FinstanceOfLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FpublishedIn%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpublishedInLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FpublishedInLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fsponsor%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FsponsorLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FsponsorLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0A>).
On Nov 28, 2024, it listed only 3 files , a number that is growing fast,
mostly through the dedicated work of Ambrosia10
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10>, following the OpenRefine
tutorials by Spinster <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Spinster>, as
well as creating a BHL version of the tutorial
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ZU0pxdptBJYDjM9lkyF4mr_y3r52isFD5Des2k…>
.
More current metrics are unavailable as the Commons Query Service (as of
Dec 5) seems to be down.
I have also set up a GLAMorous Dashboard
<https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=Files+from+th…>
for the category, where it is possible to see where the 300,000 BHL files
are being reused. There are over 15,000 items on Wikidata and over 5,000
pages on English Wikipedia using BHL images!
The BHL Userbox
Userboxes are a way for Wikimedia users to identify the projects they work
on or support, as well as personal preferences and languages spoken. I have
set up a Userbox for BHL on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL>, Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL>, Wikipedia in English
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL>, Wikipedia in Portuguese
<https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Userbox/BHL> and Commons
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL>. Now you can show your
appreciation for BHL across the Wiki landscape:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aid_to_the_identification_of_insects_(…>
This user loves the
*Biodiversity Heritage Library
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)/BHL>*
Other updates
- The next steps for the Meta page include a general clean-up and
review, a migration to the main namespace, adding support for translation
to multiple languages and sharing it widely, everywhere :)
- We are starting to look at the data model for Structured Data on
Commons and add this metadata in batch, first thing after the deployment of
the Meta page!
- Talks with the FlickypediaBackfillrBot
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FlickypediaBackfillrBot> are
ongoing – I have provided Alex with a set of BHL files to prioritize. There
are many BHL files on Wiki, however, that seem to have come not from
Flickr, but from other sources, these will require an extra step, probably
a Bot. An investigation on how these files ended up on Wiki – and how to
retroactively add BHL and Flickr IDs is ongoing, with some details at
Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/Fae_uploads
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/F%…>
.
- While navigating the old logs, we re-discovered a nice project
documentation by Ambrosia10 on Women Illustrators:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BHL/2018_Women_Scientific_Illu…
- Based on a conversation with Spinster
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Spinster>, I have made a Firefox &
Chrome add-on that shows BHL images on new tabs, similar to
https://tab.hatnote.com. The source code is available at
https://github.com/lubianat/bhlwiki_tabs and I have sent the add-on for
review on both Chrome and Firefox stores. I will share these links when
they become available.
- The property "scientific_illustration
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/scientific_illustr…>"
is ready for creation on Wikidata, waiting for some *propertycreator
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_creators>*
to take the last step and make it available. It will help us enrich
Wikidata with beautiful, scientifically important images even for taxa with
good photographic coverage on the main image
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P18> property.
- I have been sharing BHL-Wiki content frequently on Bluesky where you
can find some updates: https://bsky.app/profile/tiagolubiana.bsky.social
Thank you for reading,
Cheers,
Tiago
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