GLAM/Newsletter/April 2026/Contents/New Zealand report
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Women in Wartime event at Auckland Museum & an update for WiR NZBSI
Women in Wartime
On Tuesday 7th of April, an Online Cenotaph x Wikipedia event, Women in Wartime: A History of New Zealand Military Nursing was held in Auckland Museum's Te Pātaka Mātāpuna Research Library. Led by Wikimedian in Residence Anjuli Selvadurai and Sophie Elborough (Collection Information Technician), the session focused on the history of New Zealand military nursing, Online Cenotaph and Wikipedia as open access knowledge sharing tools and promoted the Wikiproject, Women in Red. This was the second installment of the Women in Wartime event series with plans being made for the next event. The project will be presented in a session at the upcoming 2026 ESEAP conference in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Update on the NZ Bioeconomy Science Institute Wikimedia in Residence
Much of April has been spent preparing for the two upcoming staff workshops to be held at both the Auckland and Lincoln sites of NZBSI. The Auckland Workshop will be held on the 15th of May and will be focusing on Wikidata. Editing tasks will be undertaken and various tools and gadgets profiled. The Lincoln Workshop will be held on the 20th of May and will be focused on providing an overview of various Wiki Projects including Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. Editing of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons will be focused on and the interrelationship between the three platforms profiled.
Ambrosia10 has also been co-organising a session at the upcoming TDWG 2026 and drafting an abstract for submission to that session. If accepted by her co-organisers she will be presenting on the work undertaken during the WiR to produce a type specimen Wikidata item data model and is intending to highlight not just the data model but also the supporting documentation produced including the cross walk between the model and the TDWG maintained data standard Darwin Core.
Ambrosia10 has also been invited to submit an abstract to another TDWG session on "Publishing and Communications Promoting Biodiversity, Natural History Collections, People, Data and Data Standards". The organisers of that session have requested that she present on how she uses platforms such as Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Bionomia and Zenodo to help promote biodiversity people, institutions, datasets, workflows and data standards.
- From the team
- Albania report
- Argentina report
- Asia report
- Australia report
- Brazil report
- Colombia report
- Italy report
- New Zealand report
- Nigeria report
- North Macedonia report
- Poland report
- Serbia report
- Switzerland report
- UK report
- USA report
- Biodiversity Heritage Library report
- Memory of the World report
- Calendar
