Wikimedia: Wikipedia's sister projects as platforms for Digital Humanities

Martin Poulter, Oxford's Wikimedian in Reseidence, gives a
masterclass in using Wikimedia for digital research. The Wikimedia
family of projects includes some projects that are less well-known
than the flagship Wikipedia, but highly relevant to the Humanities.
Wikidata has facts and figures about tens of millions of items,
Wikimedia Commons has tens of millions of freely reusable images,
many from cultural heritage organisations, and Wikisource has
hundreds of thousands of historical texts. These platforms are not
just for sharing text, images and data, but giving them context in
the form of metadata and links. They also allow many kinds of query
and visualisation. This session reports on progress with using
these platforms with research projects in Oxford University.