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Wikidata tutorials for GLAM institutions

On this website, you will find tutorials on how to use Wikidata. To enrich and maintain the information about your heritage institution on Wikidata is highly profitable and learning how to use Wikidata is also fun! The topics of the tutorials are specifically aimed at heritage institutions. You do not need any specific skills or knowledge, just start with the basics and learn by doing!

Why is Wikidata useful?

In the past decades, the use of digital platforms to insure online visibility and link contents and information has increased significantly. Heritage institutions are widely concerned by this process and should seize it as an opportunity to give themselves and their holdings the attention they deserve.

In this perspective, Wikidata is an important platform for heritage institutions. The open knowledge database already contains a lot of information about GLAM institutions. As structured data, the information can not only be read by humans in a multitude of languages but also by machines. It can be used for different purposes, such as interactive maps, for queries, mobile applications and increasingly to feed Wikipedia articles.