Heritage At Risk

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0300

The conversation is shaped around three big ideas: culture as a global public good and everyone’s right; questions of who governs open digital heritage and on whose terms; and how platforms and tools can be made more accessible and interoperable for under-resourced communities.

Examples

The Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space connects materials related to Mari, Seto, Võro, Udmurt, and Moldavian Csángó communities across multiple institutional collections.
Historical ethnographic collections often contain outdated transcription systems, inconsistent naming conventions, or descriptions inaccessible to present-day communities and researchers.
The presentation discusses how the dispersed legacy of researchers such as János Jankó and Aladár Bán can be reconnected across Hungarian, Estonian, and Finnish collections through multilingual metadata harmonisation.

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Translation, metadata enrichment, and multilingual controlled vocabularies can reconnect fragmented archival collections with living cultural communities and contemporary research infrastructures.

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Next Steps

Expand multilingual lexicons and controlled vocabularies for Finno-Ugric cultural heritage.
Improve interoperability between Wikibase, Wikimedia Commons, and institutional catalogues.
Develop community-based workflows for metadata correction and annotation.
Support machine-readable archival descriptions that remain understandable to both experts and source communities.

Federating Open Knowledge through Wikibase: The Case of The Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space

Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space | Daniel Antal

Heritage At Risk

Examples

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