Have a personal or library account? Click to login
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

References

  1. 1Alkemade, H., Claeyssens, S., Colavizza, G., Freire, N., Lehmann, J., Neudecker, C., Osti, G., & van Strien, D. (2023). Datasheets for digital cultural heritage datasets. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 9(17). 10.5334/johd.124
  2. 2Allison-Cassin, S., & Scott, D. (2018). Wikidata: A platform for your library’s linked open data. The Code4Lib Journal, 40. https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/13424?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wikidata-a-platform-for-your-librarys-linked-open-data
  3. 3Araújo, G. V. F. de. (2025). Descrever imagens: A história dos tesauros iconográficos e o caso do Museu Paulista da USP [Dissertação, Universidade de São Paulo]. 10.11606/D.8.2025.tde-25092025-123347
  4. 4Ayaokur, A., & Yılmaz, B. (2014). Bilgi olarak müze nesnesi ve bilgi merkezi olarak müze. In Uluslararası Kültürel Mirasın ve Kültürel Bellek Kurumlarının Yönetimi Kongresi.
  5. 5Berners-Lee, T., Hendler, J., & Lassila, O. (2001). The Semantic Web. Scientific American Magazine, 284. https://www.cin.ufpe.br/~if696/referencias/integracao/_The%20Semantic_Web.pdf
  6. 6Candela, G. (2023). An automatic data quality approach to assess semantic data from cultural heritage institutions. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 74(7), 866878. 10.1002/asi.24761
  7. 7Candela, G. (2024). Wikidata in the GLAM sector: A knowledge sharing approach. Wikimedia Research Fund. https://openreview.net/pdf?id=ZdWe2q6xDm
  8. 8Candela, G., Chambers, S., & Sherratt, T. (2023). An approach to assess the quality of Jupyter projects published by GLAM institutions. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 74(13), 15501564. 10.1002/asi.24835
  9. 9Candela, G., Cuper, M., Holownia, O., Gabriëls, N., Dobreva, M., & Mahey, M. (2024). A Systematic Review of Wikidata in GLAM Institutions: A Labs Approach. In A. Antonacopoulos, A. Hinze, B. Piwowarski, M. Coustaty, G. M. D. Nunzio, F. Gelati, & N. Vanderschantz (Eds.), Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries—28th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 24–27, 2024, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 15178, pp. 3450). Springer. 10.1007/978-3-031-72440-4_4
  10. 10Candela, G., Escobar, P., Carrasco, R. C., & Marco-Such, M. (2022). Evaluating the quality of linked open data in digital libraries. Journal of Information Science, 48(1), 2143. 10.1177/0165551520930951
  11. 11Candela, G., Gabriëls, N., Chambers, S., Pham, T.-A., Ames, S., Fitzgerald, N., Hofmann, K., Harbo, V., Potter, A., Ferriter, M., Manchester, E., Irollo, A., Van Keer, E., Mahey, M., Holownia, O., & Dobreva, M. (2023). A Checklist to Publish Collections as Data in GLAM Institutions. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, 74(5–6). 10.1108/GKMC-06-2023-0195
  12. 12Carroll, S. R., Garba, I., Figueroa-Rodríguez, O. L., Holbrook, J., Lovett, R., Materechera, S., Parsons, M., Raseroka, K., Rodriguez-Lonebear, D., Rowe, R., Sara, R., Walker, J. D., Anderson, J., & Hudson, M. (2020). The CARE Principles for Indigenous data governance. Data Science Journal, 19(43). 10.5334/dsj-2020-043
  13. 13Darnell, A. S., Fauconnier, S., Ånäs, S., Wyatt, L., & Jane, D. (2016). Why you should be paying attention to Wikidata and GLAM. Wikimedia Foundation. https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2016/08/23/wikidata-glam/
  14. 14Dişli, M., & Candela, G. (2025). Copyright and licencing for cultural heritage collections as data. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 11(11). 10.5334/johd.263
  15. 15Dişli, M., Candela, G., Gutiérrez De la Torre, S. E., & Fontenelle, G. (2025). hibernator11/Wikidata-museum-quality: V1 [Computer software]. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.17440061
  16. 16Dişli, M., Gabriëls, N., Chambers, S., Ames, S., Knazook, B., & Candela, G. (2025). Exploring the adoption of collections as data in the GLAM context. Information Research an International Electronic Journal, 30(CoLIS), 6577. 10.47989/ir30CoLIS52252
  17. 17Ehrmann, M., Romanello, M., Flückiger, A., & Clematide, S. (2020). Overview of CLEF HIPE 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Newspapers. Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction: 11th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2020, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 22–25, 2020, Proceedings, 288310. 10.1007/978-3-030-58219-7_21
  18. 18Europeana. (2015). Report on the results of the Wikimedia Taskforce. https://pro.europeana.eu/files/Images/Partner_images/Wikimedia/Europeana_Wikimedia_Taskforce_Report_2015.pdf
  19. 19Faerber, M., Bartscherer, F., Menne, C., & Rettinger, A. (2017). Linked data quality of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO. Semantic Web, 9, 153. 10.3233/SW-170275
  20. 20Fagerving, A. (2023). Wikidata for authority control: Sharing museum knowledge with the world. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 5(1), 222239. 10.5617/dhnbpub.10665
  21. 21Faraj, G., & Micsik, A. (2019). Enriching Wikidata with Cultural Heritage Data from the COURAGE Project. In E. Garoufallou, F. Fallucchi, & E. William De Luca (Eds.), Metadata and Semantic Research (pp. 407418). Springer International Publishing. 10.1007/978-3-030-36599-8_37
  22. 22Farina, A., & McGillivray, B. (2024, December 9). The Journal of Open Humanities Data. Bridging open data and Wikidata for the Humanities. Wikidata and Research. https://openreview.net/forum?id=YzLzBkneKb
  23. 23Ford, H., & Wajcman, J. (2017). ‘Anyone can edit’, not everyone does: Wikipedia’s infrastructure and the gender gap. Social Studies of Science, 47(4), 511527. 10.1177/0306312717692172
  24. 24Freire, N., & Isaac, A. (2019). Wikidata’s linked data for cultural heritage digital resources: An evaluation based on the Europeana Data Model. https://zenodo.org/records/3384377
  25. 25Gutiérrez De la Torre, S. E., Méndez, T., Gutiérrez De la Torre, S. E., & Méndez, T. (2021). Hacia una guía de buenas prácticas para proyectos digitales en Bibliotecas y Archivos: Estudio de caso desde América Latina. Alcance, 10(25), 2948. http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S2411-99702021000100029&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=es
  26. 26Kenderdine, S. (2022). Computational Museology—Experimental Interfaces to Cultural Big Data. DARIAH-Campus. https://campus.dariah.eu/resources/hosted/computational-museology-experimental-interfaces-to-cultural-big-data
  27. 27Linked Art. (2025). LOUD: Linked Open Usable Data. https://linked.art/loud/
  28. 28Mahey, M., Al-Abdulla, A., Ames, S., Bray, P., Candela, G., Derven, C., Dobreva-McPherson, M., Gasser, K., Chambers, S., Karner, S., Kokegei, K., Laursen, D., Potter, A., Straube, A., Wagner, S.-C., & Wilms, L. (2019). Open a GLAM lab. International GLAM Labs Community, Book Sprint. 10.21428/16ac48ec.f54af6ae
  29. 29Mandiberg, M. (2023). Wikipedia’s race and ethnicity gap and the unverifiability of whiteness. Social Text, 41(154), 2146. 10.1215/01642472-10174954
  30. 30Mizota, S. (2021). Change is Good: Navigating Wikidata as a controlled descriptive vocabulary. Descriptive Notes. https://saadescription.wordpress.com/2021/03/30/change-is-good-navigating-wikidata-as-a-controlled-descriptive-vocabulary/
  31. 31Mizota, S. (2022). Words Matter: Reconciling Museum Metadata with Wikidata. Curationist. https://www.curationist.org/editorial-features/article/words-matter:-reconciling-museum-metadata-with-wikidata
  32. 32Möller, C., Lehmann, J., & Usbeck, R. (2022). Survey on English entity linking on Wikidata: Datasets and approaches. Semantic Web, 13(6), 925966. 10.3233/SW-212865
  33. 33Okuonghae, O. (2024). Beyond the library catalogue: Connecting library metadata to Wikidata. Folia Toruniensia, 24(1), 183192. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1282985
  34. 34Open GLAM. (2025). Case study: Rijksmuseum releases 111.000 high quality images to the public domain. https://openglam.org/how/
  35. 35Padilla, T., Scates Kettler, H., Varner, S., & Shorish, Y. (2023). Vancouver Statement on Collections as Data. https://zenodo.org/records/8342171
  36. 36Pekel, J. (2014). Democratising the Rijksmuseum. Europeana Foundation. https://pro.europeana.eu/files/Europeana_Professional/Publications/Democratising%20the%20Rijksmuseum.pdf
  37. 37Pereda, J., Willcox, P., Candela, G., Sanchez, A., & Murrieta-Flores, P. A. (2025). Online cultural heritage as a social machine: A socio-technical approach to digital infrastructure and ecosystems. International Journal of Digital Humanities, 7(1), 3969. 10.1007/s42803-025-00097-6
  38. 38Romeo, F. (2016, January 7). Bringing [art] knowledge to everyone who seeks it. Digital @ MoMA. https://medium.com/digital-moma/bringing-art-knowledge-to-everyone-who-seeks-it-899ec257a55c
  39. 39Sant, T., Antonacopoulos, A., & Tabone, E. (2025). Connecting decolonization efforts in small museums through Wikidata. Wikimedia Research Fund. https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Xho0i7LMGD
  40. 40Stinson, A. (2018, April 9). Wikidata in collections: Building a universal language for connecting GLAM catalogs. Down the Rabbit Hole. https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/wikidata-in-collections-building-a-universal-language-for-connecting-glam-catalogs-59b14aa3214c
  41. 41Tønnessen, J. C., & Birkenes, M. B. (2025). Providing web archive news articles as corpus data. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 11(2). 10.5334/johd.281
  42. 42Vollmer, T. (2014, July 30). Rijksmuseum case study: Sharing free, high quality images without restrictions makes good things happen. Creative Commons. https://creativecommons.org/2014/07/30/rijksmuseum-case-study-sharing-free-high-quality-images-without-restrictions-makes-good-things-happen/
  43. 43Wikidata. (2025). Wikidata:GLAM. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:GLAM
  44. 44Wilkinson, M. D., Dumontier, M., Aalbersberg, Ij. J., Appleton, G., Axton, M., Baak, A., Blomberg, N., Boiten, J.-W., da Silva Santos, L. B., Bourne, P. E., & others. (2016). The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Scientific Data, 3. https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618
  45. 45Zhao, F. (2023). A systematic review of Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 38(2), 852874. 10.1093/llc/fqac083
  46. 46Zhu, L., Xu, A., Deng, S., Heng, G., & Li, X. (2023). Entity management using Wikidata for cultural heritage information. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 61(1), 2046. 10.1080/01639374.2023.2188338
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.