Wikidata:WikiProject RBGV National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL) Collectors

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Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and Wikimedia[edit]

The Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (RBGV) is a leading botanic gardens and a centre of excellence for scientific research, horticulture and education. Located within the Gardens is the National Herbarium of Victoria which is home to the State Botanical Collection, representing Australia's largest herbarium collection


This collection, comprised of over 1.5 million dried vascular plant, cryptogam and fungi specimens, also incorporates an archive and library that house a valuable collection of botanical art and literature.

Aim and Scope[edit]

The aim of this project is to provide open-source, global, digital access for RBGV’s most significant women plant collectors and women scientists through Wikidata.  


This will include utilizing biographical sources to create new Wikidata pages for women who collected plant specimens for Ferdinand von Mueller in Australia, and reconciling variations of a collector’s name so that there is a single Wikidata identifier.


It is hoped that many of these collectors and scientists will then have enough biographical information to be added to Bionomia.

RBGV WikiPolicy[edit]

RBGV staff contributing to Wikidata are tasked with making reliable, fully referenced data derived from the State Botanical Collection available in a transparent manner.

  • RBGV staff are expected to identify their affiliation on their user pages.
  • Information added to Wikidata must be verifiable, typically drawing on data held within the State Botanical Collection either directly or via one of the aggregating portals that make this data available, e.g. the Australasian Virtual Herbarium.
  • RBGV staff contributing to Wikimedia are obliged to do so using individual accounts rather than organisational ones, and must remember that they are writing for a public information resource and not presenting the views or interests of RBGV.
  • RBGV staff are asked to consider the potential for conflict of interest and to act transparently and in such a manner as to avoid it.

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Participants[edit]

  • From late October until the end of November, Drechmeria-RBGV is working full-time as a Digital Curation Officer (Wikimedian) for the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.
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