WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/Smithsonian Libraries Dibner Library portraits

The purpose of participating in the PCC Wikidata Pilot Project was to identify the existing Wikidata items (and to create new ones, where needed) for the sitters, primarily scientists and those in related technical fields, and for the illustrators, engravers, photographers and other visual artists and publishing firms who created the portraits in the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology’s collection. Although most of the sitters already had existing, well-described Wikidata it