Data partnerships is an important component of futhering access to free and open knowledge for Wikimedia projects. It is important for successfully carrying out the Wikimedia Movement's 2030 strategic direction.

Wikimedians who work with GLAM institutions may have, at some point, work on data partnership projects. The objective of this subpage is to share some of these learnings with everyone, so community members/ GLAM professionals who are working with GLAM partners will learn from each other and be better and more efficient at what we do.

This subpage aims to provide some of the learnings and experiences in our data partnerships activities with various institutions and hope to act as a playbook for Wikimedians involved in data partnerships activities.

List: some of our Data Partners

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

Environmental Projects

SemanticClimate- Wikidata & Wikibase
SmartPlanet- Wikibase

Galleries

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

Libraries

Royal Library of Belgium (Belgium)- Wikibase (MetaBelgica project)
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
College of Science Library, KNUST in Ghana- Wikibase
National Library of Luxembourg- Wikibase
National Library of the Netherlands (Bibliotheek Nederland)- Wikidata & Wikibase (see here)
National Library of Portugal- Wikidata
National Library Board of Singapore- Wikidata
Samson Adedoyin Library (Glorious Vision University Library) in Nigeria- Wikidata & Wikibase
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

* National Library of Nigeria- Wikidata

Museums

Royal Museums for Art and History (Belgium)- Wikibase (MetaBelgica project)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium- Wikibase (MetaBelgica project)
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

Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (Belgium)- Wikibase (MetaBelgica project)
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

Issues and Challenges faced by Data Partners

This section attempts to list out the various issues and challenges faced by institutional partners in data partnerships.

Libraries

Wikibase Suite. Need a mass import tool to import 9 million items (and the relationships between the entities) into the Wikibase instance. See related Phabricator ticket here.

Issues and Challenges faced in Data Partnerships work

This section attempts to highlight the issues and challenges faced by Wikimedians in their data partnerships activities.

See an overview of the issues and challenges presented at GLAM WikiConference 2023 here.

AI & Wikidata

This subsection is dedicated to the topic and discussion of AI and Wikidata. Specifically, we will look at some of the discussions surrounding how Wikidata as a knowledge graph can be integrated to empower open-source Generative AI projects.

For starters, it would make sense to look at the following content:

A year of Generative AI: Future directions for Wikimedia - video of Wikimedia Research Showcase Dec 2023.

Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata Knowledge Graph - video on this topic by Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher of Wikimedia Deutschland at Cassandra Summit 2023.