Type specimens are fundamental for taxonomy and irreplaceable components of natural history collections. Type catalogues are scholarly publications listing type material of certain taxonomic groups held in specific collections. The open, collaborative knowledge base Wikidata was used to create a multilingual dataset of published type catalogues, starting with such articles linked to the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Wikidata items were enriched to allow filtering for specific institutions, collections, taxa, collectors or expeditions. This article aims to improve accessibility to relevant biodiversity literature and to highlight the potential of Wikidata for research and knowledge contextualisation by providing a dynamically growing dataset that can be reused as AI training data.
Natural History Museum of Berlin, Germany - ORCID: 0000-0003-2982-7792
Titolo del capitolo
Opening Up and Linking Type Catalogues in Wikidata – Increasing The Accessibility of Natural History Collections
Autori
Sabine von Mering
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1010-2.25
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Wikidata e la ricerca. Condividere esperienze / Wikidata and Research. Sharing Experiences
Sottotitolo del libro
Atti del Convegno, Firenze, 5-6 giugno 2025 / Conference proceedings, Florence, 5-6 June 2025
Curatori
Elena Marangoni, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
378
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1010-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-1009-6
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-1010-2
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919