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Disrupting the Dust: Identifier Properties and the Future of Cultural Heritage Metadata in Wikidata Cover

Disrupting the Dust: Identifier Properties and the Future of Cultural Heritage Metadata in Wikidata

Open Access
|Dec 2025

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Distribution of entities within GND retrieved via DNB SPARQL Service.

PERSONSCORPORATEBODIESWORKSBUILDINGS
6,496,8031,285,915239,78276,997
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Figure 1

Top 40 Wikidata items linked with Bildindex PID ranked by number of additional external identifiers.

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Figure 2

Example for discrepancies in the type determination of a Wikidata item.

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Figure 3

Counterpart paintings in Bildindex, summarized in one combined entry describing the pair together.

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Figure 4

Wikidata item “Italian Landscape (Evening)” with former and new Bildindex identifier.

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Figure 5

Indvidual Bildindex representation of “Italian Landscape (Evening)”.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.412 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 14, 2025
Accepted on: Nov 13, 2025
Published on: Dec 9, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2025 Hanna-Lena Meiners, Klaus Bulle, published by Ubiquity Press
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