Wikidata:WikiProject Collectors affiliated with the MfN Berlin

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Work in progress - last updated May 2024

About[edit]

This WikiProject is linked to a project running at the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN) in Berlin, Germany from July till December 2022 (with follow-up work done in 2023). It aims to open up internal information on collectors and other collection agents in some way affiliated with the museum and to make them accessible via Wikidata. A detailed project report including the approach taken and an analysis of the results was published in 2024 (https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e118851).

Events[edit]

  • 1st edit-a-thon (internal training for MfN staff, 29 & 30 September, 2022)
  • 2nd edit-a-thon (external, international, 17 & 18 November, 2022)
  • additional smaller editing events ("mini edit-a-thons") at the MfN
  • Further edit-a-thons are planned, e.g. in collaboration with libraries in Berlin (autumn 2024).


Properties[edit]

In addition to basic biographical data (names and aliases, DOB, DOD, etc.), a number of central properties were used for the whole dataset if applicable and a number of additional properties used for part of the dataset if data were easily accessible.

Main properties[edit]

Additional properties[edit]

Queries[edit]

SPARQL queries for:

Up to now (October 2023), 600+ collection agents have been linked to the MfN. In December 2023, 640 collection agents have been connected to the MfN in Wikidata. By May 2024, this number has increased to 720 linked people.

Items[edit]

Newly created items[edit]

  • Bat-Sheva Aharoni (Q108309256, zoologist)
  • Hermann van Aken (Q113509902, owner of a menagerie and animal trader)
  • Anthonys van Aken (Q113509858, owner of a menagerie and animal trader)
  • Anton van Aken (Q113509875, owner of a menagerie and animal trader)
  • Wilhelm van Aken (Q113509878, owner of a menagerie and animal trader)
  • Cornelius van Aken (Q113509897, owner of a menagerie and animal trader)
  • Charles Martin Allen (Q113509981, ornithologist)
  • Thomas David Aubinn (Q113553984, zoological collector (mammals, birds) and hunter)
  • Friedrich Bachmann (Q116007635, German dealer of naturalia in Hamburg)
  • August Becker (Q117089482, German dealer of naturalia)
  • Carl Heinrich Bescke (Q113622563, German dealer of naturalia)
  • Carl Heinrich Bescke (Q113622563, German dealer of naturalia)
  • Christian Friedrich Carl Bescke (Q113622604, German dealer of naturalia)
  • Dr. von Besser (Q116256680, German naval surgeon)
  • Gottfried Böhme (Q113652525, German geologist and paleontologist)
  • Henriette Boisset (Q116008052, circus director and menagerie owner)
  • Johann Georg Wilhelm Brandt (Q116259341, German dealer of naturalia, based in Hamburg)
  • Mr. Bromirski (Q116259553, German teacher and zoologist)
  • Henry Kelso Coale (Q113955366, amateur ornithologist and bird collector)
  • Johann Christian Carl Daude (Q113988821, German forester)
  • Johann Carl August Delbrück (Q113989487, Prussian trade consul and dealer of naturalia)
  • Andreas Friedrich Eimbeck (Q114045188, German ornithologist, preparator and dealer of naturalia)
  • Wilhelm Christian Gotthelf von Feldner (Q116241531, German explorer and naturalist)
  • Emil Fischer (Q116767682, German mineralogist)
  • Eduard Fleck (Q114073643, Austrian naturalist, geologist and collector of natural history specimens)
  • Otto Gimm (Q114290820, German teacher and paleobotanical collector)
  • Rudolph Gottschalk (Q114792487, German zoologist)
  • Erich Christian Ludwig Gruner (Q114866678, German merchant and consul)
  • Gustav Haeberlin (Q115519600, German explorer and zoological collector)
  • Gerhard Hartwich (Q114933299, German zoologist)
  • Jonathan Wynyard Haynes (Q116860763, British army officer in the Gold Coast)
  • Frau Professorin Heinsius (Q116865345)
  • Jochen Helms (Q115117734, German geologist and palaeontologist)
  • Egbert von Herold (Q115125767, German officer and entomologist)
  • Edmund Thomas Higgins (Q115137440, fossil collector)
  • Walter Hoesch (Q115267543, German zoologist)
  • J.C. Hoffmann (Q116543379, German dealer of naturalia and botanical collector)
  • Gustav Hopke (Q116872123, German zoological collector)
  • Reinhard Houy (Q114316067, German physician and zoologist, collector of ethnographica, zoological and botanical specimens)
  • Carl Hüsker (Q115536528, German medical officer)
  • Rudolf Killias (Q115652455, German zoologist)
  • Adolf Kleinschmidt (Q115652137, German zoologist)
  • Heinrich Klose (Q115652505, German explorer and military officer)
  • Ernst J. Koopmann (Q115683480, German cobbler, hunter and zoological collector)
  • Georg Krause (Q115923837, German oologist and egg ilustrator)
  • Peter Alfred Laabs (Q116918585, German zoologist)
  • Christophe-Augustin Lamare-Picquot (Q115684607, French pharmacist and explorer)
  • Bernhard Luschnath (Q115484193, German gardener and explorer)
  • Georg Martienssen (Q115483200,German farmer, plantation owner and settler)
  • Wilhelm Ludwig Heinrich von der Marwitz (Q114793526,German military officer)
  • Franz Mertlick (Q116949922,)
  • Otto Meyer (Q114897053,German priest, missionary and ornithologist)
  • Manfred Moritz (Q113579224,German zoologist and arachnologist)
  • Friedrich Hans Müggenburg (Q115683789,German zoologist)
  • Paul Niedieck (Q113578603,German big game hunter, explorer and writer)
  • Carl Ferdinand Oberländer (Q113578762,German ornithologist and zoological collector)
  • Paul Richard Wilhelm Obst (Q113578805,German zoologist)
  • Clara Panzer (Q113578805,)
  • Johann Ruhl (Q114066080,German dealer of naturalia)
  • J.G.A. Salmin (Q113612396, German dealer of naturalia)
  • Adolph Schayer (Q114896295, German naturalist, zoological and botanical collector)
  • Carl Schütze (Q116694786, German dealer of naturalia)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Sieber (Q109519435, German botanical collector)
  • Hermann G. T. Stadelmann (Q113583916, German zoologist)
  • Georg Thorey (Q115652706, German pharmacist, dealer of insects and beetle collector)
  • Philippine Tourniaire (Q109718348, owner of a menagerie, wife of Jacques Tourniaire)
  • Dr. Türke (Q116168488, zoological collector)
  • Wilhelm Umlauff (Q113622630, German taxidermist and dealer of naturalia)
  • Gert Wappler (Q113586035, German mineralogist)
  • and many more...

Resources[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kaiser K, von Mering S (in press). Making Connections. Open Data for Transdisciplinary Provenance Research on Collections from Colonial Contexts. Peckiana - Senckenberg Monographs.
  • von Mering S, Stolze E, Kaiser K, Petersen M (2024) Sharing data, caring for collections. Open data on collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Research Ideas and Outcomes 10: e118851. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e118851
  • von Mering S, Stolze E (2023) Collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN) - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10425159 [dataset]
  • von Mering S, Kaiser K, Petersen M (2022) Transforming Closed Silos into Shared Resources: Opening up data on historical collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 6: e93787. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.93787

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