Editors’ Summary: In “Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata,” Till Grallert, Sophie Eckenstaler, Claus-Michael Schlesinger, Nicole Dresselhaus, Isabell Trilling, and Sophie Stark address a familiar challenge in digital humanities: how to document and sustain knowledge about the field’s many digital tools without creating yet another static directory that quickly becomes outdated. The authors propose using Wikidata, together with GitLab and Zenodo, as open, community-maintained infrastructure for tool registries, shifting attention from closed catalogs to living, linked, and reusable records of DH practice. By combining a critique of the “directory paradox” with practical models for data creation, querying, publication, and preservation, the article offers a timely intervention into conversations about DH infrastructure, software sustainability, and the shared labor of maintaining digital scholarship.
Editors’ Choice: Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata
