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Belgium report
Project 'Belgian distilleries as Linked Open Data' completed
By Ingert2022
Project
Jenever distilleries in Belgium (2021-2024) is a project by the Jenevermuseum in Hasselt to describe jenever distilleries that have left their mark on the history of jenever production in Belgium on Wikimedia. With this project the Jenever Museum wanted to add, improve and/or further expand Wikipedia articles on distilleries to make the information accessible to the public. After 3 years the project is now completed and we can see the results.
The Jenevermuseum realized this project thanks to the support of the Flemish Government and in collaboration with Wikimedia Belgium, CAG, ETWIE, Histories, Hogeschool PXL and various heritage cells in Flanders.
Results
- First, the available metadata of 271 distilleries were published as Linked Open Data via Wikidata. You can find the list here.
- Secondly, the Jenever Museum, in collaboration with the partners, organised ten writing sessions or 'Distill-a-thons' spread across Flanders. During these sessions, 68 volunteers described the information of jenever distilleries on the Dutch Wikipedia. In total 72 Dutch articles and 2 French articles are published and 14 Dutch articles are updated. You can find the new articles under this category and subcategories. 31 articles are also published on the English Wikipedia. You can find them here.
- Thirdly, 147 photo files of the collection of the Jenevermuseum are uploaded regarding these distilleries. You can find them here.
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writing session in Hendrik Concience Library in Antwerp
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Writing Session in Distillery Filliers in Deinze
More information
There is also a report of the project, you can find it here.
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