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Open Data Practices of Art Museums in Wikidata: A Compliance Assessment Cover

Open Data Practices of Art Museums in Wikidata: A Compliance Assessment

Open Access
|Dec 2025

Abstract

Wikidata has emerged as a powerful tool and identifier hub in the Digital Humanities (DH), enriching Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) digital collections. Its full potential is realised when institutions adopt specific open data practices. This work focuses explicitly on Art museums in Wikidata. It aims to benchmark their adoption of key open data best practices using defined open data compliance criteria. Examples of the criteria defined include providing machine-readable data, ensuring licencing clarity, and enabling reuse through APIs and examples. Ultimately, this study maps the current adoption of these practices among leading Art museums and provides a guideline for institutions seeking to improve their open data compliance in the Wikidata ecosystem.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.438 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 26, 2025
Accepted on: Nov 26, 2025
Published on: Dec 12, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2025 Meltem Dişli, Gustavo Candela, Silvia Gutiérrez, Giovanna Fontenelle, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.