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New article about paintings on Wikidata

The Cultural Content Substack has just published a guest article from me about Wikidata’s role in connecting people to art and culture…

Jul 26, 2024

New article about paintings on Wikidata

Jul 26, 2024

Reaching millions of readers through Wikipedia

I have long thought that Wikipedia articles about exhibitions are a great way for cultural institutions to get continuing benefits from…

Apr 4, 2024

The Journey to the Heart of Islam article on English Wikipedia

Apr 4, 2024

Three ways to make links between collections

A theme of my work is using Wikimedia projects to make links between different cultural collections. I look forward to the day when…

May 4, 2023

Three ways to make links between collections

May 4, 2023

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Wiki Playtime

Historical people and modern collections: a Wikidata exploration

In a previous blog post, I mentioned that Wikidata could help us “Find manuscripts that are in some way related to Shah Jahan (commissioned…

Feb 7, 2022

Historical people and modern collections: a Wikidata exploration

Feb 7, 2022

Manuscripts on Wikidata: the state of the art?

Thanks to the generosity and cooperation of the Khalili Collections, I have recently been sharing images and catalogue data for a beautiful…

Oct 14, 2021

Manuscripts on Wikidata: the state of the art?

Oct 14, 2021

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Wiki Playtime

Bridging real and fictional worlds

Wikidata has many, many statements about the real world, but also describes worlds of fiction or myth. Fictional entities can have almost…

Sep 13, 2017

Bridging real and fictional worlds

Sep 13, 2017

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Wikidata for winners (in Economics)

One of my jobs brings me into contact with lots of economists, so although I’m not an economist myself the subject is much on my mind when…

Mar 10, 2017

Wikidata for winners (in Economics)

Mar 10, 2017

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Wikidata for wizards

A new post has come out on the Wikimedia Foundation blog, introducing Wikidata and explaining why institutions should share data with it…

Mar 9, 2017

Wikidata for wizards

Mar 9, 2017

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Wiki Playtime

Wikidata, Wikipedia and Voltaire

This week the Voltaire Foundation have published my guest blog post which describes how we constructed Histropedia timelines to support the…

Feb 22, 2017

Feb 22, 2017

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Historical intellectual connections

Wikidata has a doctoral advisor (P184) relation, so the entry for a person can identify the person who supervised their doctoral degree.

Feb 14, 2017

Historical intellectual connections

Feb 14, 2017

Martin L Poulter

Martin L Poulter

Wikimedian In Residence at the Khalili Foundation; Former Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Oxford, exploring open data and open content

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