Wikimedia Deutschland/Data Partnerships Team

Data Partnerships Team

Partnerships around all things Wikidata and Wikibase

We see Data Partnerships as a key component of our larger strategy and vision for Wikidata and Wikibase. Through Data Partnerships, we aim to contribute to a healthy and community-driven Linked Open Data web. This web of Linked Open Data should be accessible, usable, inclusive and diverse, ultimately increasing the sum of free knowledge and help pave the way towards more knowledge equity.

Data Partnerships is embedded within the Software Communications team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland. SCoT handles a variety of communications roles and chiefly operates as an intermediary between WMDE’s Software Development department and the Wikiverse. Find out more about who the Data Partnerships Team actually are here.

Find out more about our Data Partnerships Model

Read this blog post for examples of how we work with partner organizations

Read these interviews for examples and insights on our partner's work:

Preserving community history with Wikibase (My Community, Singapore)

Metabase: Wikibase for the Wikimedia Movement (Wikimedia Sverige)

Modeling the Enlightenment Novel (MimoText /University of Trier, Germany)

Get in touch: swe_partnerships(at)wikimedia.de

Outreach Initiatives and Networks

Networks and initiatives which we helped set up and/or are actively involved in

DHWiki Wikibase-focused working group at the DARIAH-EU (Digital Research Infrastracture for the Arts and Humanities)

Wikibase in Latin America A collaborative initiative between Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikimedia Chile for outreach and support around all things Wikibase in Latin America

Wikibase Stakeholder Group A group that commissions production and maintenance of open source extensions to Wikibase, and documentation for organizations that want to operate and maintain a fully-fledged instance of Wikibase. Membership is open to organizations using Wikibase for mission critical work, open source projects producing tools that interface with Wikibase, Wikibase service providers, and software developers and consultancies.

Data Partners [Examples]

Together with the local Wikimedian communities, we are aware or have worked with the following institutions across the world on data partnership activities:

Environmental Projects

SemanticClimate- Wikidata & Wikibase
SmartPlanet- Wikibase

Galleries

National Gallery of Art (USA)- Wikibase
Prater Gallery- Wikibase
Rhizome Artbase- Wikibase

Libraries

Berkeley Law Library (US)- Wikibase
British Library- Wikidata & Wikibase
Library of Congress- Wikidata & Wikibase
National Library of the Czech Republic- Wikidata & Wikibase
The National Library of France (Bibliothèque nationale de France)- Wikidata & Wikibase
Finnish National Library- Wikibase
The German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)- Wikidata & Wikibase
University of Ghana Library- Wikidata (see Report)
National Library of Greece- Wikidata & Wikibase
Hong Kong Baptist University Library- Wikidata
Kenya National Library Services- Wikibase
National Library of Luxembourg- Wikibase
National Library of the Netherlands (Bibliotheek Nederland)- Wikidata & Wikibase (see here)
Samson Adedoyin Library (Glorious Vision University Library) in Nigeria- Wikidata & Wikibase
National Library of Portugal- Wikidata
National Library Board of Singapore- Wikidata
The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (US)- Wikidata and Wikibase (see Smithsonian's WikiProject PCC Pilot, Chinese Ancestors Portraits Project & Wikidata, and blog post here)
National Library of Wales- Wikibase instance here

Projects in the pipeline

* College of Science Library, KNUST in Ghana- Wikibase

* National Library of Nigeria- Wikidata

Museums

National Museum & the National History Museum of Sweden- Wikidata for authority control, a collaboration between Wikimedia Sverige, the Nationalmuseum and the National Historical Museums of Sweden
Research Institute of World’s Ancient Traditions Cultures and Heritage (RIWATCH)- Wikibase (see Wikibase.cloud instance and category on Commons.
Städel Museum- Wikidata (see WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up)

Research, Learning & Discovery Hubs

Conzept encyclopedia- Wikidata
Depositar- Wikidata (project by Academia Sinica in Taiwan)
Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS)- Wikidata (creation of the DWDS lemma ID on Wikidata for German lexemes. See Property Discussion here.)
Enslaved.org project- Wikibase
eViterbo- Wikibase (see instance here)
FactGrid- Wikibase
EXC2020 Temporal Communities, Freie Universität Berlin- Wikidata & Wikibase
Histropedia- Wikidata
King's College London- Wikidata
JDCRP's Adolf Schloss collection- Wikibase
MiMoTextBase- Wikibase (see here for excellent tutorial on various topics, such as SPARQL queries, in the MimoText project.)
Restitution of Knowledge- Wikidata ("The Restitution of Knowledge: Artefacts as archives in the (post)colonial museum" is a DFG-AHRC funded research project that brings together the Pitt-Rivers-Museum, the University of Oxford, and the Institute for Art History at the Technical University in Berlin. It aims at mapping knowledge generated by a DFG-AHRC research project on the history of colonial violence and the plunder of African cultural heritage.)
Scholia- Wikidata
Open Science Lab, TIB Hannover- Wikibase
Qichwabase- Wikibase (see instance here)

Government and related LOD Projects

Austria Transition to Open Access (AT20A)- Wikidata
Bayerische DigitalAgentur (BYTE)- Wikidata
EU Vocabularies & EuroVoc- Wikidata
GEPRIS Historisch- Wikidata (see project details here.)
Govdirectory- Wikidata
Umwelt.info- Wikidata

Commercial/ Industry Entities

IBM Research- Wikidata
JSTOR Labs- Wikidata
Orange- Wikidata

Past Presentations/ Materials

Here are some of our past presentation materials:

Wikibase: Data and Collections in the Linked Open Data Web Art History loves Wiki 2025 Conference
Managing Datasets and Collections with Wikibase Mediawiki Users and Developers Conference 2024
The Wikibase Software Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024, Istanbul
ESEAP24 Use cases for the Region (2024)
ESEAP24 Data Partnerships 2024 & Beyond (2024)
Wikidata Days: Wondrous World of Wikibase (2023)
Wikimania 2023: Intro to Wikidata Partnerships
Wikibase_Journey_and_Future_(2023)
IFLA Mismatch Finder LOD presentation (2023)
Wikidata Mismatch Finder brochure
Wikibase Brochure
Open Data Day Taiwan 2023
Linked Open Data presentation for BYTE (2023)
Opening talk for 'Public Archives and Participation' Wikimedia Technology Summit 2023
How WMDE can support partnerships with GLAM institutions for Wikibase and Wikidata projects