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Biodiversity on Opencura

Welcome to the experimental Wikibase containing biodiversity data. It runs on @addshore's WBStack. This wikibase is very experimental and no guarantee's can be given on the persistance of the data that hosts.

Currently, a subset of metadata on observations from iNaturalist has been added by a software bot developed for this purpose. The bot added all CC0 licensed data with a research-grade tag into this Wikibase.

Subsequently, the items were created for the observed species and mappings to the Wikidata items on those species have been made.

Basically, this wikibase allows extending taxonomic data on Wikidata, with metadata on specimens, with the caveat that (for now) the scope is limited to only data that are not limited by restrictive licenses (CC0).

I will gradually be extending examples and use-cases to this Wikibase, but anyone is welcome to join the fun exercise to create a federated data-landscape for the biodiversity.