User:Lucy Patterson (WMDE)
About me
I'm an organiser specialised in open practices and transdisciplinary co-creation. I'm interested in uncovering bias and challenging power dynamics in knowledge production. A bit of a wikidata nerd. My background is in science (I was once a molecular biologist), community organising and activism around diy science, circularity and adaptation.
Pronouns: she/her
My work
I am an Advisor for digital cultural heritage (Referentin digitales Kulturerbe) and work towards growing the global cultural commons. More info about my work here: wikimedia.de/projects/offenekulturdaten
I am part of the Team Digitale Bildung, Demokratie und Kultur (Digital Education, Democracy and Culture) at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.. In this team, we advocate for cultural heritage and educational institutions to open up in the service of knowledge and educational justice (open content, data, educational materials, practices, etc.).
Contact me
lucy.patterson
wikimedia.de
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Talks, Events and Projects
15.09.2025 "Linked open data and global collaboration in the Wikimedia movement", presentation together with Lukas Fuchsgruber (WMDE) at Workshop "Significant Event: Looting" at TU Berlin about Wikidata:WikiProject_TheRoK.
25.-26.06.2025 WikiKult Netzwerktreffen 2025 - Documentation event hosted together with Lukas Fuchsgruber (WMDE) and Heike Gleibs (WMDE), at Wikimedia Deutschland, Berlin
14.04.2025 "GND in Wikidata" presentation prepared for a meeting between the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and community members Emu, Epìdosis, Kolja21, Raymond, and Wurgl - overview of ongoing integration of the Gemeinsamer Normdatei authority file into Wikidata from the perspective of Wikidata/Wikipedia community members involved.
11.01.2025 "Structured data on Commons", presentation for Art History Loves Wiki 2025, at Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München
09.12.2024 "A Beginner's Guide to Wikidata for Cultural Heritage" publishing of a learning resource developed together with User:Fiona.Moehrle
14.06.2024 Netzwerktreffen kulturelles Erbe, Linked Open Data und das Wikiversum - hosting community of practice kick-off meeting, Wikimedia Deutschland, Berlin. "Communities of Practice", talk given as part of the meeting
14.05.2024 "Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-up", presentation together with Ulrike Fladerer and Romy Kahler to the LD4 Wikidata Afinity Group on Wikidata:WikiProject_Städel_Museum_Wikidata_Clean-Up
15.04.2024 „openGLAM - gemeinsam Kultur- und Gedächtnisinstitutionen für die Wikimedia-Projekte öffnen und das Kulturerbe dokumentieren.“ online presentation together with Holger Plickert (WMDE) and Christoph Jackel (WMDE) for the Digitale Themenstammtisch [slides]
02.04.2024 Blog series with Patrick Wildermann on Linked open cultural heritage data
- 02.04.2024 Welche Vorteile Linked Open Data für Kulturerbe hat
- 22.04.2024 Wie das Naturkundemuseum mit Linked Open Data unbekannte Forschende sichtbar macht
- 15.05.2024 Mit Wikidata Wissen über die Kunst der Moderne vernetzen
12.-14.01.2024 Provenance Loves Wiki, content and coordination support to the volunteer organising team, TU Berlin and Wikimedia Deutschland, Berlin
07.11.2023 "Modelling data in wikidata - reproducing bias?" and "How to Wikidata" Barcamp sessions at Wikiremembrance, aufhof Hannover
23.10.2023 World Café Wikimedia, at Fachvernetzungstreffen “The LÄND goes Open GLAM: Potenziale offener Kulturdaten und digitaler Teilhabe”, Landesmuseums Württemberg, Stuttgart [blogpost]
06.10.2023 "A global cultural commons: Building Linked Open Data with the Wikiverse", Keynote talk and "Why and how to Wikidata", workshop together with Alex Winkler at Zugang Gestalten 2023, Universität Münster
16.08.2023 "Witchydata - Über Hexen(verfolgungen), Linked Open Data und digitale Erinnerungskultur" workshop together with Cin Pietschmann (WMDE), Haeksen Village, CCCamp 2023
25.05.2023 Wikimedians in Bibliotheken, meetup and discussion session together with Jens Bemme (SLUB), Eva Seidlmayer, (ZB MED), and Antje Theise (UB Rostock), BiblioCon 2023, Hannover
19.11.2022 "Open data and colonial collections", remote talk at WikiconNL 2022
12.10.2022 "Museums, Linked Open Data, and the Wikimedia Projects", talk at 2022 Herbsttagung Fachgruppe Museumsdokumentation (virtuell)
07.05.2022 opening address at the Coding da Vinci Baden-Württemberg 2022, Hackathon Kick-Off event, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe
27.03.2022 "Content Partnerships" talk for the GLAM-Vernetzungs und Koordinierungstreffen 2022, Wikimedia Deutschland, Berlin
24.02.2022 "An Introduction to Wikidata and Wikibase" online talk and discussion with Netzwerk Koloniale Kontexte
04.11.2021 "Offen und gerecht: Wie lassen sich digitale Transparenz und Souveränität von Herkunftsgesellschaften vereinbaren?“ discussion session together with Sabine Müller (WMDE) and Birgit Scheps-Bretschneider (Grassi Museum), Zugang Gestalten 2021, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt [Blogpost]
30.09.2021 "Offen und gerecht! Fragen zum Umgang mit Digitalisaten von Objekten aus Sammlungsgut aus kolonialen Kontexten" / "Open and Fair! Questions on how to handle digital copies of objects in collections from colonial contexts" open research blog series together with Sabine Müller (WMDE) and Claudia Bergmann (WMDE)
- 30.09.2021 An introduction to colonial cultural heritage in the German context (de/en)
- 18.02.2022 A Kenyan museum perspective - interview with Juma Ondeng, National Museum of Kenya (de/en)
- 18.05.2022 A legal perspective - interview with Andrea Wallace, University of Exeter (de/en)
- 03.08.2022 A German museum perspective - Interview with Isabel Fischer and colleagues, Brücke-Museum Berlin (de/en)
29.09.2020 Coding da Vinci website relaunch, [blogpost]
12.-14.06.2020 attended Wikidata Wochenende Online
30.04.2020 opening address at the Coding da Vinci Saar-Lor-Lux 2020, Hackathon Kick-Off event, online and pre-recorded
Wintersemester 2019/2020 pilot project to expand the compulsory “Medienpraktikum” for undergraduate library and information science students to focus on data competency and the Wikimedia Projects, together with Ellen Euler, FH Potsdam [blogpost]
06.12.2019 opening address at the Coding da Vinci Westfalen-Ruhrgebiet 2019, Hackathon closing event and award ceremony, Dortmunder U
25.-26.10.2019 first time attending WikidataCon, Berlin
12.10.2019 Wikidata dataset presentation (one-minute-madness) at the Coding da Vinci Westfalen-Ruhrgebiet 2019, Hackathon Kick-Off event, LWL-Industriemuseum Zeche Zollern
17.08.2019 Addressing knowledge equity in cultural heritage projects workshop hosted together with Åsa Paaske Gulbrandsen (WMNO), Wikimania Stockholm 2019
06.04.2019 opening address at the Coding da Vinci Süd 2019, Hackathon Kick-Off event, Münchener Stadtbibliothek
22.-24.02.2019 attended Wikidata Workshop Ulm
27.10.2018 opening address at the Coding da Vinci Rhein-Main 2018, Hackathon Kick-Off event, Universität Mainz