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Building Cultural Heritage Data Infrastructures with Wikidata: The Case of the Congruence Engine Data Register Cover

Building Cultural Heritage Data Infrastructures with Wikidata: The Case of the Congruence Engine Data Register

Open Access
|Feb 2026

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.448 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 29, 2025
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Accepted on: Jan 18, 2026
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Published on: Feb 26, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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