Whenever you read a Wikipedia article, consult a University publication, or search for a book in a library catalog, you are depending on citations and metadata — the structured information that tells you who created a work, when it was published, where it appeared and how it connects to other research. If this information is incomplete, inconsistent, or locked behind paywalls, knowledge becomes harder to verify and reuse.
Libraries, research institutions and Wikimedia projects, all depend on bibliographic metadata and citations to make knowledge findable. To work on this shared challenge they met on invitation of Wikimedia CH in Bern at the Wikicite and Wikidata Days.
A recently published Whitepaper summarises what the participants learned in Bern and what libraries and the community can do next.
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