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BHL-WIKI RECAP - JAN 27
by Dearborn, JJ 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '25

Hi All, Great to see everyone this week for our 2025 kick-off meeting! I'm just sending out the monthly BHL-WIKI meeting notes<https://docs.google.com/document/d/19_-TZa3HBWYr_J-E1nsuGlCl6peHI47bXKqt-K5…>, recording, and the recap below: RECORDING https://smithsonian.zoom.us/rec/share/kRylJCnuXdW_wI2mZfulfcGsScMLbwrdFgkVA… Passcode: s+.#2b2# 🚀ACTIONS 🚀 * All who are interested in submitting for Living Data 2025<https://www.livingdata2025.com/>, please start your wiki rapid grant<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid> applications now. * @Tiago Lubiana<mailto:tiagolubiana@gmail.com> to add list of illustrations<ttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12547062> as a potential controlled vocab addition to instance of<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31> property in the data model. - DONE * @Dearborn, JJ<mailto:DearbornJJ@si.edu> to update the BHL About FAQ<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h5J-hDSz7E3K9SLgTXNkr6LuPVHbWp7qmp3M2Km…> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h5J-hDSz7E3K9SLgTXNkr6LuPVHbWp7qmp3M2Km…> with the group edits. * @Tiago Lubiana<mailto:tiagolubiana@gmail.com> to add a column to indicate whether properties for the MVP (minimum viable product) data model can have single or multiple entries * @Tiago Lubiana<mailto:tiagolubiana@gmail.com> and @Dearborn, JJ<mailto:DearbornJJ@si.edu> to work together to update the MVP data model on Commons and then share it with others on SDC talk page for wider community feedback * @Siobhan Leachman<mailto:siobhan.leachman@gmail.com>+ @Andy Mabbett<mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> and other interested reps to join the FEB WMF Commons Community call.<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WMF_support_for_Commons/Commons_…> * @All - Please vote or add to our requests<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lRhk9nRux-ybOX1Tvq9seWjLz0zBLPkyIKdlYTz…> for the Commons Technical Team. ✅ DECISIONS ✅ 1. We have group consensus around the BHL Image Data Model<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X1FBZwJIY9xckdQa_hMea6VpHjO25S30CVrO6lB…>!! 🎉🤸‍♂️ A huge shout-out goes to @Tiago Lubiana<mailto:tiagolubiana@gmail.com> for pulling together all of the loose threads from this past year, to finally get us to this point. And a huge thank you to the entire working group for your ongoing participation to help inform the data model. This is a MAJOR milestone for our group. 🏁 Everyone please review the MVP data model documentation<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X1FBZwJIY9xckdQa_hMea6VpHjO25S30CVrO6lB…> and send any feedback to @Tiago Lubiana<mailto:tiagolubiana@gmail.com>. 1. Yes, we will add Portuguese as a language to the WMF hypothesis statement. 💡FYIs💡 Mix'N'Match Update Tiago has updated the MixNMatch dataset for BHL authors for us. The automatic jobs<https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/jobs/6686.> have just completed and the game is now ready for action again: https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/6686 MOAR! --> BHL-Wiki Metrics From Tiago: https://tiago.bio.br/impact_metrics/ From Rod: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/Our_outcomes/… Upcoming Event Alert! Register Now! for Data Reuse Days 2025 upcoming: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Data_Reuse_Days_2025 WiR Status Updates Bi-weekly updates are being posted up on Meta from our wonderful WiR, @Tiago Lubiana<mailto:tiagolubiana@gmail.com>. ⭐ Please out the amazing progress he is making here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/Our_outcomes/… GLAMwiki January Newsletter An update for the Wiki community giving a summary BHL Wiki monthly meetings from @Siobhan Leachman<mailto:siobhan.leachman@gmail.com> ⭐ https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/January_2025/Contents/B… Thanks, and see you all next month! JJ JJ Dearborn Data Manager, Biodiversity Heritage Library | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/f3b640e4…] dearbornjj(a)si.edu<mailto:dearbornjj@si.edu> [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/e4c7b561…] 1000 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/a25da420…] biodiversitylibrary.org<https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/> [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/5dba2852…]<https://twitter.com/BHLDataMgr> [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/8cf9f4cc…] <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjdearborn/> [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/2e8253e9…] <https://www.youtube.com/c/biodivlibrary> [cid:cc175509-7679-468e-b81e-d63cc07562eb]

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BHL Wikimedian-in-Residence Status Updates (Jan 24)
by Tiago Lubiana 24 Jan '25

24 Jan '25

11 December 2024 - 24 January 2025 Hello, all, I start this update by thanking everyone that took a look at the last report <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BHL/Our_outcomes/WiR/Status_updates/2025-01…>, specially those that gave feedback on the 6 tasks. It seems we are all aligned on refining the BHL Image Structured Data Model <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ocqDQBFaKAQvPsP3HMlrh52faiHiaDU-D9P…> and getting metadata transformed in 5-star Linked Open Data. That, thus, has been the focus of the last 2 weeks. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oiseaux_brillans_du_Br%C3%A9sil_(20118…>The #P180 shortcut enables a direct link to the "depicts" statements <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oiseaux_brillans_du_Br%C3%A9si…> for this blue-bellied parrot illustration. Bite-sized news - After a kind invitation by Fiona (WMF), <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FRomeo_(WMF)> I have presented on Jan 15 at the Commons Community Call <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WMF_support_for_Commons/Commons_…> a bit on what we are doing in the BHL-Wiki Working Group. The community is aligned on showing support for Structured Data on Commons, which might mean more and better tools for SDC in the future and more support for the Commons Query Service. - As a request from Heidi Meudt <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stitchbird2> on the WikiProject Biodiversity chat, the hasDepicts.js <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TiagoLubiana/hasDepicts.js> tool now is set to be "on" by default. It adds green or white balls under file thumbnails showing whether they have, or not, depicts (P180) statements. It helps a bit when curating this information manually on Commons. - Thanks to User:Nikki <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki>, I have learned that we can share links directly to SDC statements on Commons by adding #P180 (or other property ids) to the end of the URL. For example, in File:Oiseaux_brillans_du_Brésil_(20118041314).jpg#P180 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oiseaux_brillans_du_Br%C3%A9sil_(20…> . - The BHL Arena app got good attention and feedback, I thank everyone that tried it! Good requests were raised by RichartLitt <https://github.com/RichardLitt> and dpriskorn <https://github.com/dpriskorn> on the GitHub repo <https://github.com/lubianat/bhl-arena/issues> and by Gio <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)> on Telegram. Hopefully I will find the time to implement them soon. - The Commons Impact Metrics Dashboard <https://tiago.bio.br/impact_metrics/> is now tracking metrics for the BHL subcategories for South America <https://tiago.bio.br/impact_metrics/?category=Files_from_the_Biodiversity_H…> and Africa <https://tiago.bio.br/impact_metrics/?category=Files_from_the_Biodiversity_H…>. As these are newly tracked by the Commons Impact Metrics system, there might be bugs. PIWG connections On last Wednesday, Jan 22, I attended the Persistent Identifiers Working Group (PIWG) to meat Nicole <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:nicolekearney> and others, getting to know a bit more of the identifiers work. From the conversations, some tasks emerged that could be useful towards BHL's mission: *Task 1. Develop more metrics about reuse of BHL content (i.e. DOIs) on Wikipedia* Rod Page wrote a few queries in that direction, listed on Biodiversity Heritage Library/Our outcomes/Quarry <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/Our_outcomes/…>. So far, about 7680 uses of BHL DOIs + 10139 links directly to BHL website. Hopefully I can extend some of these metrics, getting, for example, how many times these pages are visited per month. *Task 2. Update citations on Wikipedia to link more clearly to BHL using the "#via <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book#via>" parameter* Citations currently show up as: - Salvadori, Tommaso <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommaso_Salvadori&action=edit&…> (1874). "Altre nuove specie di uccelli della Nuova Guinea e di Goram raccolte dal Signor L.M. D'Albertis" <https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10812996>. *Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova* (in Italian and Latin) *6*: 81–88 [86]. OCLC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC> 820904343 <https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820904343>. As you may see, BHL is hidden behind the links. The alternative makes the links to BHL much clearer, and could be used both for BHL DOIs and direct website links: - Salvadori, Tommaso <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommaso_Salvadori&action=edit&…> (1874). "Altre nuove specie di uccelli della Nuova Guinea e di Goram raccolte dal Signor L.M. D'Albertis" <https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10812996>. *Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova* (in Italian and Latin) *6*: 81–88 [86]. OCLC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC> 820904343 <https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820904343> – via Biodiversity Heritage Library <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_Heritage_Library>. *Task 3. Update the Mix'n'Match catalog for BHL Authors D* Deprecated ids still linger. Siobhan <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10> contacted Lucy Schrader <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124513124>, who kindly provided instructions on how to do it. If all goes well, this should be done shortly. For reference, see all BHL catalogs in Wikidata:WikiProject_BHL/Statistics <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_BHL/Statistics>. If you have more tasks related to persistent identifiers in the BHL-Wiki interface, please let me know! Structured Data Case Studies After putting together a Tutorial for editing BHL images SDC on OpenRefine <https://docs.google.com/document/d/18jVwiOsqxFoMAHJnJ864iTBcQx39ZliLefmQh26…>, based on work by Siobhan and Sandra, I proceeded to do a few case studies to detect corner cases towards a scale-up. I am versioning the BHL Image Data Model <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ocqDQBFaKAQvPsP3HMlrh52faiHiaDU-D9P…>, and it is currently at v0.1.1 . Documentation for Each Case Study Each case study corresponds to a different publication for which the images have been loaded into Commons. I am keeping track of these changes on a master Google Spreadsheet <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YhMSb_iBylJaWPX37kZbVzdyWoFidT9a31P…>, which some general notes, criteria and links. Each case study is getting its own Google Docs, at least for now: Case Study 01 - Model v. 0.1.1 - Albert Spear Hitchcock <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P96wHjYyDkMQw-0flYamJOEDE7b5hyrw7btXtI7…> This photo album served to test the tutorial. One complexity there was that it needed manual curation of the number of photos, done in OpenRefine. A particular detected detail was that some images for this album appear to have been digitized twice. Other little modelling challenges like this one are listed in the case studies documents, for those interested. - [image: Frailejones in the BHL collection (link)] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Spear_Hitchcock_-_brief_report_…> Frailejones in the BHL collection (link <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Spear_Hitchcock_-_brief_repo…> ) - [image: Frailejones from SLA, but not in the BHL collection. (link)] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frailejones_in_northern_Ecuador,_1923.…> Frailejones from SLA, but not in the BHL collection. (link <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frailejones_in_northern_Ecuado…> ) Case Study 02 - Model v. 0.1.1 - Apuntes sobre los insectos de Chile <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MQBmFePJESWhDj0uLp8EChhjINVkMN0FLmooHnl…> A small category, where some files had the {{BHL}} template, some with not. We decided to, for now on, only parse files with the {{BHL}} template, which include more metadata. This template is used over 230.000 times in Commons <https://templatecount.toolforge.org/?lang=commons&name=BHL&namespace=10#bot…>, making it already a decently-sized dataset. At this point, I moved from OpenRefine, but a custom script using Started using WikibaseIntegrator (GitHub Repository: Reconciliation Bot <https://github.com/lubianat/bhl_sdc_exploration/tree/main/reconciliation_bot>). The main advantage is the scalability and the opportunity to automate a few of the manual parts of the workflow. Case Study 03 - Model v. 0.1.1 - Beitrag zur Flora Brasiliens <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OC3qMzJ3iMAR8J7lv78y989UhO8xKMXddwLiFlD…> A nice set of plant illustrations, part of the famed contributions of von Martius <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Martius> and of the Prince of Wied <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Maximilian_of_Wied-Neuwied> in Brazil. The illustrator, "T. Wild <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131760409>", did not have even a Wikidata item. It seems to be common for illustrators, engravers and lithographers to be forgotten in history. Crediting them in metadata is, I think, an starting point to do justice to. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beitrag_zur_Flora_Brasiliens_(Pl._2)_(…>One of the plants drawn by T.Wild. At this point I implemented editgroups <https://github.com/Wikidata/editgroups> it, so batches of edits may be tracked, and a parser to get Sponsor and Collection based on the Bibliography IDs. The images in the category also had some structured data, added by the FlickypediaBackfillrBot <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FlickypediaBackfillrBot>, which lead me to unearth bugs in the core of the WikibaseIntegrator <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unearthing_bugs_in_the_core_of…> package. Luckly, I was able to hand-fix the bugs, and now the bot runs with the custom package at github.com/lubianat/WikibaseIntegrator. Case Study 04 - Model v. 0.1.1 - Abbildungen zur Naturgeschichte Brasiliens <https://docs.google.com/document/d/16N5mzTALk-TsYN75j52iX3aTW54bY_liZ_WNPYe…> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prinz_Maximilian_zu_Wied-Neuwied_mit_J…>Max, the Prince of Wied, hunting with Joaquim Kuêk <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquim_Ku%C3%AAk>. Another work by Max, the Prince of Wied, but this time I was unable to figure out the illustrator. When studying the work, I found this image of Max with a native "helper", Joaquim Kuêk <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquim_Ku%C3%AAk>, and was a shocked. The dead macaw and the exploitation of indigenous people — Kuêk's skull was put in a museum after his death — hint at the ugly, untold parts of these beautiful books. In a way, images like this remind us the importance of re-signifying the biodiversity treasure in BHL, and making sure it has a positive and long lasting impact for human kind and biodiversity. I think that is, ultimately, the mission behind this whole Wiki work. Anyways, coming back to the structured data, some files in the category had, in the metadata, species names loaded from BHL OCR. I wrote code, then, to parse these as "depicts" statements. Some names dected by the BHL OCR don't seem to be used anymore, e.g. *Noctilio dorsatus* which seems to be now called *Noctilio leporinus* <https://www.gbif.org/pt/species/2433343> . I am investigating technical ways to make these leaps automatically, maybe via GBIF. Case Study 05 - Model v. 0.1.1 - Historia naturalis Brasiliae <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pDC9pMLK46bOKaB5mjI9aNaMLf7MdLmATtQggTY…> This 1648 book is outstanding for its historical importance. It was published in Latin, in Leiden and reflects a lot of the Natural History of Dutch Brazil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dutch_Brazil&action=edit&redli…>. There was, recently, a 1.5 Million Euro Horizon2020 grant <https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/715423> just for studying this book. There are many copies known and catalogued <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003362920-9/cens…> and BHL has at least 5 different Title identifiers for it, all connected to the same Wikidata item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q339343>. That detail adds some complexity to the workflow, but luckly, the {{BHL}} templated stored the exact Item where each image came from. They seem to have been colored by hand and not by the illustrator, so some images look funny, and very different from copy to copy. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacana_-_Historia_naturalis_Brasiliae_…> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacana_jacana_-_Tiago_Lubiana_-_458859…> This jacana was coloured green in one book, an alien look for a familiar bird to Brazilian birders. Case Study 06 - Model v. 0.1.1 - Les bois indigènes de São Paulo <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q2vNGAEREgI4yj-GD9kEnmFjImR4FZIZDtKbDKe…> A rare case of a public domain book about Brazilian biodiversity that was actually authored by Brazilians and edited in Brazil! This collection is about woody trees of São Paulo, here I live, and has a mix of photos and illustrations of the plants. I modified Magnus Manske's sdc_tool to be able to use it for "instance of" statements, and curate this information onwiki The modified script is available at User:TiagoLubiana/sdc_tool.js <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TiagoLubiana/sdc_tool.js>. Tthe PDF/DJVU of the book was not available on Commons. Adding it to Commons via the Internet Archive Upload tool (ia-upload.wmcloud.org/) was surprisingly straightforward. Tech adventures on Phabricator tickets Navigating with more intensity in the Commons Structured Data waters led me to find some bugs, inconsistencies and missing features, which in turn turned into dialogs with the Wikimedia tech community via Phabricator, including: - T298672 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298672>, a bug when new users try and revert Structured Data - T383584 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383584> and T304391 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304391>, a feature request to be able to link, using SDC, two media files (e.g. an image and the scan where it comes from). The tickets are for two different solutions: one, a quick workaround, the other, for a larger Wikibase restructuring, which would enable better queries for this data - T384221 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384221>, based on a feedback by Siobhan on the BHL Arena <https://bhl-arena.toolforge.org> app, a feature request for sharing links to Commons files opening directly the "Structured Data" view *Next steps* And that was it so far. I will keep navigating these categories for the next few weeks, refining the model and the bot code. Let me know if there is any particular category that you would like me to study/add metadata to. *Thank you* for reading this update, and if you have questions or suggestions, don't hesitate to reach out. Cheers, Tiago *——————————————————————————* *Tiago Lubiana* *Wikimedian-in-Residence, Biodiversity Heritage Library <https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/>* *tiago.bio.br <https://tiago.bio.br>*

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Upcoming BHL Wiki meeting meeting 27 January 2pm EST
by Siobhan Leachman 23 Jan '25

23 Jan '25

Hi everyone and Happy 2025! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break. This is a reminder that the first BHL Wiki Meeting 2025 of the year will be happening on Monday, Jan 27 at 2:00 PM EST | Find your time <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20250114T140000>; as JJ has previously messaged we have amended the time this month due to Martin Luther King and Inauguration Day in the U.S. The agenda for the meeting can be found here https://docs.google.com/document/d/19_-TZa3HBWYr_J-E1nsuGlCl6peHI47bXKqt-K5… One agenda item is a request to the group for a quick peer review of the BHL Wiki FAQs document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h5J-hDSz7E3K9SLgTXNkr6LuPVHbWp7qmp3M2Km… As this will be replicated on the BHL website we’d be grateful if you could look at this prior to the meeting. Looking forward to seeing you all at the meeting, Siobhan Leachman BHL Wiki working group chair.

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Updates from the Wikimedian-in-Residence
by Tiago Lubiana 16 Jan '25

16 Jan '25

Hello, all, Here are some updates on what has been going on in the Wikimedian-in-Residence side of things. The information below is also available on the Meta-Wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BHL/Our_outcomes/WiR/Status_updates/2025-01…> page. The last month went by *fast* with the end-of-year festivities, but work has gone steadily and now it is time to share. Six things that would be great to do Before telling you what I have done, I want to share quickly 6 things I would love to achieve in relation to the BHL images on Commons in the next 4 months: - (1) Add Structured Data via OpenRefine <https://docs.google.com/document/d/18jVwiOsqxFoMAHJnJ864iTBcQx39ZliLefmQh26…> to 1-5k images according to the BHL Image Structured Data Model <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ocqDQBFaKAQvPsP3HMlrh52faiHiaDU-D9P…> . - (2) Generalize a bot process using Wikibase Integrator <https://github.com/LeMyst/WikibaseIntegrator> and add automatically basic metadata for the other 200k+ BHL images on Commons. - (3) Properly track the about 200k BHL files on Commons that are not in the BHL category (!!). These files have BHL listed as a source but do not contain the {{Biodiversity Heritage Library}} template, and are thus invisible to our metrics. I have written code to fix this issue <https://github.com/lubianat/bhl_sdc_exploration/tree/main/detect_unlabeled_…>, but still have to enter the bot approval process. - (4)Get information on Images tagged with particular species from Commons categories into Structured Data as "depicts" statements. This is another bot task coded and ready to go. <https://github.com/lubianat/bhl_sdc_exploration/tree/main> - (5) Leverage the same code to populate Wikidata's reference illustration (P13162) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13162> and image (P18) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P18>, extending the reach of the collection - (6) Add the files from Flickr missing from the BHL collection on Commons It is quite a lot to get done in a short time, so let's see how far we can get :) . Would you want to see any of those tasks prioritized? Let me know! The BHL-Wiki Meta page As mentioned in the last report <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/Our_outcomes/…>, the BHL-Wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BHL> page on Meta, which was almost ready, is now live and shared with the world. The goal was to provide comprehensive coverage of the BHL-Wiki activities, but also to make the BHL pages on Wiki look beautiful. Feel free to browse the There is still some work to do, such as adding a clearer list of participants of the BHL-Wiki Working Group. In particular, there are some concerns if the information on the Charter <https://docs.google.com/document/d/13-I0JGoUuzuDeMP1nyS4fj0rC8aJ3ItQhwMAA1z…> should be made publically available on-wiki or not, and we figuring out ways forward. The Minimal BHL Image Data Model – v 0.1 In the past month, I have stitched together discussions, comments and suggestions across 3 different documents <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Biodiversity_Herita…> into a pair of documents without duplication: - One Google Docs for the Minimal BHL Image Data Model Proposal - v 0.1 <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X1FBZwJIY9xckdQa_hMea6VpHjO25S30CVrO6lB…> summarizing design decisions and discussions and - One Google Spreadsheet <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ocqDQBFaKAQvPsP3HMlrh52faiHiaDU-D9P…> with the properties, qualifiers and references to use when adding metadata to BHL Images on Commons. I kept the original documents unchanged so it is possible to track the discussions if anyone is interested. The model is based on suggestions, discussions and writings by the BHL-Wiki Working Group, in particular JJ Dearborn, Sandra Fauconnier, and Siobhan Leachmann, so I thank them very much! On the Google Docs there are also next steps for future iterations of the model are also outlined — there is a lot to organize, and analysis paralysis <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis> is something I try to avoid radar. If anyone has questions about the model I am, as always, open to feedback! I am testing the model for the first batch of OpenRefine uploads and listening for feedback. The model is always open to changes, but they will be (at least for now) organized with versioning so we can have references to the Model that are stable in time while we discuss and improve. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_birds_of_Shakespeare_(1916)_(14753…>The Eagle, by George Edward Lodge, one of the images with updated Structured Data. An OpenRefine Tutorial for Using the Structured Data Model Based on work by Siobhan Leachman <https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ZU0pxdptBJYDjM9lkyF4mr_y3r52isFD5Des2k…>, based on a Wikidata Lab presentation by Sandra Fauconnier <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv8bDtO4cq8>, I organized a tutorial entitled Adding Structured Data on Commons for BHL Images with OpenRefine <https://docs.google.com/document/d/18jVwiOsqxFoMAHJnJ864iTBcQx39ZliLefmQh26…>. It had been quite some time since I last used OpenRefine, so it was lot of fun and a good opportunity to write the tutorial from a newcomer's perspective. It goes through installing the Wikimedia Commons Extension <https://github.com/OpenRefine/CommonsExtension>, cleaning up metadata for a Commons category, and reconciling it as Structured Data on Commons. The Commons Impact Metrics Dashboard The Culture & Heritage team <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Culture_and_Heritage_t…> team at the Wikimedia Foundation is promoting a new service for tracking impact for GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) partnerships: the Commons Impact Metrics <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Impact_Metrics> product, a dataset and API collecting metrics for some Commons categories. I have been working on a way to visualize the data for BHL and other GLAMs, so I have built a little front-end to the API: https://tiago.bio.br/impact_metrics/. There we can visually explore how BHL is making its mark in the Wikimedia world: - Over 300,000 files are tracked in the BHL category - There are over *20 million views every month* for these files, with 15 million just on Wikipedia - The most viewed page with a BHL Image in November 2024 was the page for Dog <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog>, with 1,879,704 views - The most viewed individual file in November 2024 was a picture of the African golden wolf <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wolf>, seen 893,547 times On the dashboard, it is also possible to explore users who edited the most BHL images and other interesting metrics. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dogs,_jackals,_wolves,_and_foxes_(Plat…>The BHL Image with the most views on November 2024, the African Golden Wolf, is present in the "dog <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog>" entry on English Wikipedia. A BHL-Wiki New Tab Add-On 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. The add-on is available: - As a Firefox Add-On <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/biodiversity-library-wiki-ta…> and - As a Google Chrome Extension <https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/biodiversity-heritage-lib/bpkoliai…> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_BHL-Wiki_New_Tab_Add-On_on_Firefox…>The Biodiversity Heritage Library New Tab Add-On on Firefox shows an image from Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kunstformen_der_Natur_(Tafel_99)_BH…> alongside metadata. A new Wikidata property: reference illustration (P13162) The property reference illustration (P13162) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13162> was created on Wikidata. 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. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_birds_of_America_(Pl._482)_(859533…>Image from "The Birds of America <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_of_America>" linked on the item for the black-necked grebe <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185183>. It is a great opportunity to make your favorite illustrations of popular animals more visible on the Wikimedia ecosystem and I am excited to see how this property will be used in the future. The BHL Arena game on Toolforge The BHL Arena is a little web application where users can select their favorite out of two images. These "matches" update a ranking, that ranks higher the images that users liked the most. It was made for users to explore the BHL images on Wikimedia Commons, find files needing extra metadata, and help prioritize candidates for reuse on Wikipedia and beyond. It was a way that I found to make it even more fun to delve deep into the Biodiversity Heritage images while preparing the ground for the batch upload of Structured Data. The app is live on https://bhl-arena.toolforge.org. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BHL_Arena_Toolforge_App_-_Main_Page.png>The BHL Arena Toolforge App shows two images for comparison. Other news - The citations on Wikipedia could clearly show a link to the Biodiversity Heritage Library using the Template:Cite_book#via <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book#via> parameter. This method is done already by the Internet Archive and Gutenberg Project teams. The use is exemplified on wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_pigeon <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_pigeon>, and it should be possible to batch-update some of the references. - The template {{BHL author}} <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:BHL_author> can be used on English Wikipedia to link an author's page on Wikipedia to their works on BHL. I have added this as a task on Biodiversity Heritage Library/Get involved <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/Get_involved> . - In that direction, here is a SPARQL query for authors with BHL IDs on Wikidata but no {{BHL author}} template on Wikipedia: w.wiki/CYK8 And that is basically it. Thank you for reading this update, and if you have questions or suggestions, don't hesitate to reach out. Happy New Year! Tiago *——————————————————————————* *Tiago Lubiana* *Wikimedian-in-Residence, Biodiversity Heritage Library <https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/>* *tiago.bio.br <https://tiago.bio.br>*

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