Biodiversity Heritage Library/Our outcomes
The fruits of the BHL-Wiki partnership
Wikimedian in Residence
After much preparation, the BHL-Wiki collaboration led to the opening of a Wikimedian-in-Residence (WiR) position. The Smithsonian Institution provided support for a contractor to work for 6 months (Nov 2024 - Apr 2025) supporting the integration of BHL with Wikimedia.
The BHL Wikimedia Projects Whitepaper
A detailed overview of the role of the Biodiversity Heritage Library in the Wikimedia ecosystem – and a vision for our future – is detailed on the whitepaper Unifying Biodiversity Knowledge to Support Life on a Sustainable Planet
The BHL Wikimedia Padlet
A Padlet dashboard organizing BHL Consortium discussion, votes, and priorities for investments in the Wikimedia Ecosystem
The BHL Wikimedia Scrum Board on GitHub
The Scrum Board for the BHL-Wiki working group, tracking the progress of activities.
The Miro Board for the design of the Meta page
A Miro board with the brainstorming for how the BHL-Wiki Meta page should look like
Metrics
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The statistics for Wikidata
There are over 200,000' BHL IDs mapped on Wikidata. Check below for the history there, told via SPARQL queries:
Publications
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