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Authoritative Practices and Collective Validation: Wikidata within the Collaborative Digital Edition of the Greek Anthology

  • Mathilde Verstraete
  • Maxime Guénette
  • Marcello Vitali-Rosati

As collaborative digital platforms become more common in cultural and Digital Humanities projects, the role of non-experts and their contributions to these platforms is shifting. Platforms such as Wikidata invite a reconsideration of where authority lies: not solely in the hands of experts, but also within a wider community of contributors who bring diverse forms of expertise. This development challenges hierarchies in academic and cultural institutions and raises new questions about validation, trust, and collaborative knowledge production. In this paper, we explore these questions through the lens of the Anthologia Graeca project, where the integration of Wikidata has become a way of rethinking editorial authority as a shared process.

  • Keywords:
  • Greek Anthology,
  • digital classics,
  • authority control,
  • Wikidata,
  • Collective Intelligence,
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Mathilde Verstraete

Université de Montréal, Canada - ORCID: 0000-0003-1642-8610

Maxime Guénette

Université de Montréal, Canada - ORCID: 0009-0006-2076-1220

Marcello Vitali-Rosati

Université de Montréal, Canada - ORCID: 0000-0001-6424-3229

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Chapter Title

Authoritative Practices and Collective Validation: Wikidata within the Collaborative Digital Edition of the Greek Anthology

Authors

Mathilde Verstraete, Maxime Guénette, Marcello Vitali-Rosati

Language

Italian

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10.36253/979-12-215-1010-2.13

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2026

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Wikidata e la ricerca. Condividere esperienze / Wikidata and Research. Sharing Experiences

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Atti del Convegno, Firenze, 5-6 giugno 2025 / Conference proceedings, Florence, 5-6 June 2025

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Elena Marangoni, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo

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378

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2026

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Studi e saggi

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