WikidataCon 2025

This session is about Paulina. Paulina is a Wikidata-based tool that helps you discover authors and their works, check the copyright status of works in different countries, and access the works from Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons and other sites when they are available. It also encourages users to improve information about authors and works on Wikidata.

Paulina is designed for several types of users:

• Professionals from cultural heritage institutions and publishers can quickly find works and determine their copyright status.
• Wikimedians can use Paulina's user-friendly interface to run common GLAM queries and identify data gaps.
• Students, educators, and the general public can easily explore and find works and authors.

Additionally, Wikimedians can use this tool in the context of collaborations with cultural heritage institutions that have limited resources. Paulina can help visualize data contributions to Wikidata from these institutions, streamline some of their workflows, and assist with the copyright research needed for digitization projects.

At Wikimania 2025, Paulina won the Coolest Tool Award in the category Most Innovative. In recent months, having participated in the Wikimedia Hackathon and the Wikimania hackathon, collaborators have joined in both the development and design of the tool.

In this session, we want to showcase the application's latest features, share what new features we're considering, and gather feedback from the GLAM community on what new features they'd like to see implemented in Paulina.

We also want to emphasize that the tool was created to support collaborative processes with GLAM communities and is currently a key component of a regional project carried out in Latin America called "Strengthening the Latin American Public Domain with Wikidata."

We want to promote the tool's use in other projects focused on Wikidata and the public domain, especially to highlight and bridge gaps related to underrepresented cultural heritage.