DARIAH-EU WG DHwiki - A first year of activity

This contribution reflects on a long first year of existence of our new Working Group, highlights some first achieved milestones, and undertakes an outlook to the nearer future. As we declared in our foundational statement, the group set out to build bridges between DH researchers, the GLAM sector, and people active on and around MediaWiki-based software solutions, be it on Wikimedia’s public platforms, or on own instances. After one year of official existence as a group, and thanks to the funding obtained in the DARIAH Theme Call, we have come together to collaborate in several in-person events as well as continuous online activities. Our group is as diverse as the profiles of the community WG DHwiki is targeting with its activity. Some have contributed to or use Wikidata in their research projects, some use their own Wikibase instances for working with Linked Open Data (LOD) catalogues or other types of datasets, some have developing and system admin expertise, some in data visualisation, etc. By sharing our fields of expertise to each other, we are able to share it with the larger community - which was the idea behind the two panel events we organized last year (DARIAH Annual Event and ADHO conference), and also behind our first larger milestone: Creating our own Wikibase instance, which is now available at https://dhwiki.wikibase.cloud, currently including the following contents: Information about the group, group members, and group meetings; A collection of bibliographical items covering work related to Wikidata and Wikibase in research and GLAM contexts, collected by the group members in a Zotero group library, and presented here as LOD. Documentation pages, intended as a collection of guidelines for everybody planning to adopt Wikidata and Wikibase in their own projects. A collection of jupyter notebooks showcasing Wikibase content reuse. The documentation pages are thematically focused and coordinated by different WG members. The addressed topics are the following: Structure and features of Wikibase for DH Wikibase and Wikidata, differences and round-tripping Wikidata and Wikibase as a hub for identifiers Examples of existing Wikibase instances in the field of DH and GLAM Requirements from a DH perspective Wikibase Lexical Data Resource directory and Bibliography We are currently working on a dissemination of our output in different formats, such as an overview article in a journal, presentations and papers (see our Zenodo community) and contributions to other community platforms. We aim at constantly updating and enriching the documentation pages listed above. Based on feedback collected until now and in the future, we will try to improve the role of the group as a consultancy service in DH research and GLAM data projects. Only based on the experience made by now, we may already confirm that there is a constant demand for project-tailored one-time or even continued consultancy in topics related to FAIR data, LOD software solutions, and related tools and workflows. We will explore the integration of the Wikibase Ecosystem with public data infrastructures such as ECHOES and the common European data space for cultural heritage.