Input: Wikidata as an information hub for decentralized archives (Workshop “Subverting Archival Practices”, Berlin, November 2025)

At the workshop Subverting Archival Practices (https://perfomap.de/newspictures/workshop_berlin_nov.pdf), I presented thoughts on the role of Wikidata for the now very widespread online archives of projects as websites (e.g., https://talkingobjectsarchive.org/ https://dekoloniale.de/ https://archive.transmediale.de/ https://archiv.ngbk.de/). Linking persons, events, places, objects on these websites to Wikidata would make them more visible, but also allow for research across these different archives.

One aspect here is also Wikidata’s possible role for web archiving, i.e. the storage of endangered websites in containers, namely by enabling references to individual pieces of information in the container once the original website is no longer available. This was also tested with students of Prof. Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver Aarhus university in October 2025 in the workshop “Data Modelling and Web Content at Risk”, they referenced information from the https://dekoloniale.de/ website on Wikidata: https://cc.au.dk/en/c4cdp/news/show/ar

Lukas Fuchsgruber

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