Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Wikidata as a Reconciliation Anchor: Curating Data for Long-Term Preservation Cover

Wikidata as a Reconciliation Anchor: Curating Data for Long-Term Preservation

Open Access
|Feb 2026

References

  1. ACDH – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities. (n.d.). Data Policy. Regulations for the management of research data, results, and software at ACDH. Retrieved 25 October 2025, from https://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/what-we-offer/data-policy
  2. Basset, S., Novák, D., Sandric, B., Fernie, K., Richards, J., Doerr, M., Tudhope, D., Trognitz, M., & Yanase, P. (2020, July). Why does ARIADNE use the Getty AAT and not Wikidata as its main reference vocabulary? https://ariadne-infrastructure.eu/why-does-ariadne-use-the-getty-aat-and-not-wikidata-as-its-main-reference-vocabulary/
  3. Berners-Lee, T. (2006). Linked Data—Design Issues. https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
  4. Caplan, P. (with Internet Archive). (2003). Metadata fundamentals for all librarians. Chicago: American Library Association. http://archive.org/details/metadatafundamen0000capl
  5. CIDOC LIDO Working Group. (2025, May 27). LIDO Primer. https://lido-schema.org/documents/primer/latest/lido-primer.html
  6. DataCite. (2024, December 5). DataCite Schema 4.6 [Website]. DataCite Schema. https://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.6/
  7. De Melo, G. (2015). Lexvo.org: Language-related information for the Linguistic Linked Data cloud. Semantic Web, 6(4), 393400. 10.3233/SW-150171
  8. Delpeuch, A., Morris, T., Huynh, D., Weblate (bot), Mazzocchi, S., Jacky, Guidry, T., elebitzero, Stephens, O., Matsunami, I., Larsson, A., Sproat, I., Santos, S., Mayer, A., kushthedude, Martinelli [Sannita, L., Fauconnier, S., Magdinier, M., Mishra, E., … Saby, M. (2025). OpenRefine/OpenRefine: OpenRefine 3.9.5 [Computer software]. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.17042116
  9. DublinCore. (2020, January 20). DCMI Metadata Terms. DCMI. https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dcmi-terms/
  10. Ďurčo, M., & Windhouwer, M. (2014). From CLARIN Component Metadata to Linked Open Data. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Multilingual Knowledge Resources and Natural Language Processing. Co-Located with LREC 2014. 26–31 May 2014, Reykjavik, 1317. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/workshops/LREC2014Workshop-LDL2014%20Proceedings.pdf#page=29
  11. Felicetti, A., Meghini, C., Richards, J., & Theodoridou, M. (2025). The AO-Cat Ontology (Version 1.2). Zenodo. 10.5281/ZENODO.7818374
  12. GeoNames. (n.d.). GeoNames Premium Web Services. Retrieved 30 October 2025, from https://www.geonames.org/commercial-webservices.html
  13. Getty. (2017). Art & Architecture Thesaurus. The Getty Research Institute. https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/
  14. Haller, A., Polleres, A., Dobriy, D., Ferranti, N., & Rodríguez Méndez, S. J. (2022). An Analysis of Links in Wikidata. In P. Groth, M.-E. Vidal, F. Suchanek, P. Szekley, P. Kapanipathi, C. Pesquita, H. Skaf-Molli, & M. Tamper (Eds.), The Semantic Web (pp. 2138). Springer International Publishing. 10.1007/978-3-031-06981-9_2
  15. Hitzler, P., Krötzsch, M., Parsia, B., Patel-Schneider, P. F., & Rudolph, S. (Eds.) (2012). OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Primer (Second Edition). https://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-primer/
  16. Huvila, I. (2022). Improving the usefulness of research data with better paradata. Open Information Science, 6(1), 2848. 10.1515/opis-2022-0129
  17. Isaac, A., & Clayphan, R. (Eds.) (2013, July 14). EDM Primer. https://pro.europeana.eu/files/Europeana_Professional/Share_your_data/Technical_requirements/EDM_Documentation/EDM_Primer_130714.pdf
  18. Isaac, A., & Summers, E. (2009, August 18). SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer. SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer. https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/
  19. Lagoze, C., Van de Sompel, H., Nelson, M., & Warner, S. (2002, June 14). Open Archives Initiative—Protocol for Metadata Harvesting—V.2.0. https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
  20. Neubert, J. (2017). Wikidata as a Linking Hub for Knowledge Organization Systems? Integrating an Authority Mapping into Wikidata and Learning Lessons for KOS Mappings. In P. Mayr, D. Tudhope, K. Golub, C. Wartena, & E. W. De Luca (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems Workshop (pp. 1425). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1937/paper2.pdf
  21. Shenoy, K., Ilievski, F., Garijo, D., Schwabe, D., & Szekely, P. (2022). A study of the quality of Wikidata. Journal of Web Semantics, 72, 100679. 10.1016/j.websem.2021.100679
  22. SIL Global. (n.d.). About ISO 639-3 | ISO 639-3. Retrieved 26 October 2025, from https://iso639-3.sil.org/about
  23. Snijders, M. K., Windhouwer, M., Wittenburg, P., & Wright, S. E. (2009). ISOcat: Remodelling metadata for language resources. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 4(4), 261. https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_131099_4/component/file_131101/content
  24. Suominen, O., Ylikotila, H., Pessala, S., Lappalainen, M., Frosterus, M., Tuominen, J., Baker, T., Caracciolo, C., & Retterath, A. (2015). Publishing SKOS vocabularies with Skosmos. https://skosmos.org/publishing-skos-vocabularies-with-skosmos.pdf
  25. Tharani, K. (2021). Much more than a mere technology: A systematic review of Wikidata in libraries. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 47(2), 102326. 10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102326
  26. Trognitz, M., & Ďurčo, M. (2018). One Schema to Rule them All. The Inner Workings of the Digital Archive ARCHE. Mitteilungen Der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen Und Bibliothekare, 71(1), 217231. 10.31263/voebm.v71i1.1979
  27. Trognitz, M., Batlle Baró, S., Matskevich, S., Péter, R. K., Szabó, A. D., Gál, M., & Moitinho de Almeida, V. (2024). Preserving digital data without an archive: Illuminating the path towards digital preservation through knowledge of essential requirements and strategies. Internet Archaeology, 67. 10.11141/ia.67.2
  28. Uytvanck, D. V. (2025, October 1). State of the technical infrastructure. CLARIN Annual Conference 2025. Vienna. https://www.clarin.eu/sites/default/files/dvu-state-of-the-tech-infra-2025-web.pdf
  29. van Veen, T. (2019). Wikidata: From “an” Identifier to “the” Identifier. Information Technology and Libraries, 38(2), 7281. 10.6017/ital.v38i2.10886
  30. Vrandečić, D., & Krötzsch, M. (2014). Wikidata: A free collaborative knowledgebase. Communications of the ACM, 57(10), 7885. 10.1145/2629489
  31. Wick, M. (2010, September 13). Premium Data Subscription. GeoNames Blog. https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/premium-dump/
  32. Wikidata contributors. (2025, October 3). Help:QuickStatements—Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Help:QuickStatements&oldid=2412223086
  33. Wikipedia contributors. (2025). Authority control. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Authority_control&oldid=1307061423
  34. Wilkinson, 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., Bouwman, J., Brookes, A. J., Clark, T., Crosas, M., Dillo, I., Dumon, O., Edmunds, S., Evelo, C. T., Finkers, R., … Mons, B. (2016). The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Scientific Data, 3(1), 160018. https://web.archive.org/web/20230204213150/https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618. 10.1038/sdata.2016.18
  35. Zaytseva, K., & Ďurčo, M. (2020). Controlled Vocabularies and SKOS. DARIAH-CAMPUS. https://hdl.handle.net/21.11159/019595c5-11fa-7123-835a-783727ceee5a
  36. Zhao, F. (2023). A systematic review of Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 38(2), 852874. 10.1093/llc/fqac083
  37. Żółtak, M., Trognitz, M., Andorfer, P., Czirjak, N., Durco, M., Štuhec, S., Czeitschner, U., Carloni, M., aureon249, & Çetin-Aufricht, A. (2025). acdh-oeaw/arche-schema: A metadata schema for resources from the humanities (Version zenodoRelease) [Computer software]. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.17367652
  38. Żółtak, M., Trognitz, M., & Ďurčo, M. (2022). ARCHE Suite: A Flexible Approach to Repository Metadata Management. 190199. 10.3384/ecp18917
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.450 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 31, 2025
|
Accepted on: Dec 3, 2025
|
Published on: Feb 12, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 Martina Trognitz, Rachel Alyson Mandell, Seta Štuhec, Julian Palacz, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.