Participants will be presented with a personal narrative of field photography of monuments in the state of Bahia, Brazil that began in 2017. I used a print architectural inventory, the "Inventário de proteção ao acervo cultural", published in the 1970s; and a Google Map produced by the Instituto do Patrimônio Artístico e Cultural da Bahia (IPAC). My experience fundamentally changed in 2019 with the adoption of Wikidata to manage Wiki Loves Monuments in Brazil. In practice, the lists generated by Wikidata led me not only to unphotographed sites in the state; at present the WLM Brazil team's enhancement of Wikidata items is leading us from simply "an image" to a more comprehensive representation--photographic and otherwise--of these sites.

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