Mapping Hospital Heritage with WikiFAIR. A Proposal for Research Data Management | ZfdG - Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften

Abstract:  This article introduces a research data management framework developed within the ERC AdG project ›ARCHIATER: Heritage of Disease: The Art and Architectures of Early Modern Hospitals in European Cities‹ (PI: Chiara Franceschini). The study focuses on the visual culture of European hospitals from the outbreak of the Black Death (1347) to the Great Plague of Marseille (1720). The contribution recommends the use of WikiFAIR as a FAIR-oriented strategy for ensuring long-term accessibility and collaborative data curation. It demonstrates how Wikidata functions as a reference ontology for navigating, modeling, and linking project-specific data, including the structured documentation of buildings, artworks, and objects. Finally, it presents visualization approaches such as geographic mapping, network analysis, and quantitative evaluation. These methods provide clear benefits for ARCHIATER and offer transferable insights for future art and architectural history research projects.