prometheus is a distributed digital image archive that currently makes more than 3,496,000 images of over 120 databases from institutes, research facilities and museums researchable on a common user interface.
Situated at the Institute of Art History of the University of Cologne, prometheus is supported by the non-profit association prometheus e.V. which promotes the ongoing developments of the digital media for science and research.
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Wikidata IDs are integrated into prometheus in various ways. These unique identifiers for objects in the Wikimedia Foundation’s free database always begin with the letter Q and a sequence of numbers. For example, Q365 is the identifier for Cologne, and Q2112768 is the identifier for prometheus, the distributed digital image archive.
If Wikidata IDs are provided by the integrated image databases, they are Wikidata search links in the image archive that you can click directly, allowing you to access the corresponding authority data in Wikidata outside of prometheus. Within the image archive, you can search directly for the Wikidata IDs and add the corresponding Wikidata ID to the artist fields of the images. Clicking on the pencil also allows you to make corrections.
So far, you’ve added 7,062 Wikidata entries for 636 artists this way. While we were still looking forward to the first 1,000 links in June of last year, we’re looking at the first 10,000. :-)
The data can be maintained by anyone in this publicly accessible Wikidata database. If something is missing, a quick registration is sufficient, and an additional ID with a description can be added. To be able to use this structured data more widely for internal research in prometheus, we want to integrate additional editing fields into other fields. Where should we start?
We are very interested in your opinion and have created a very short survey:
„prometheus + Wikidata 2025“ (in German only).
Thank you for your support!
