Enhancing Material Remains of Human History as Entities within the Wikiverse

Description

The TRAIL, “Enhancing Material Remains of Human History as Entities within the Wikiverse,” addresses the challenge of integrating archaeological and related terminologies, as well as collection data, into the Wikiverse in an interoperable and sustainable manner. Currently, there is a lack of standardized workflows to consistently model specialized vocabularies and object information from various sources in Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia and to link them with research infrastructures (e.g., NFDI4Objects Knowledge Graph, OpenStreetMap, federated NFDI Knowledge Graph Ecosystem). To address these challenges, the TRAIL is pursuing a scalable approach in Phase II with three main focuses: (1) integration and semantic modeling of entities in Wikimedia projects, (2) development of collaborative workflows for data integration and publication in Wikibase instances, and (3) linking with DANTE and the NFDI4Objects Knowledge Graph. The goal is to create interoperable standards and services that cover the entire research data cycle—describe, publish, qualify, discover. In doing so, the TRAIL strengthens the NFDI4Objects pillars: standardization of terminologies (Pillar 1), development of digital services (Pillar 2), community engagement through best practices (Pillar 3), and international networking with Wikimedia Germany, NFDI4Culture, NFDI4Memory, and other partners (Pillar 4).