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Welcome to the Digital Narrative Knowledge Base
The Digital Narrative Knowledge Base (DNKB) is the main public interface for searching and browsing the archive. This MediaWiki/Wikibase site is the editorial and data layer behind that interface. It stores structured records, narrative pages, and the relationships between works, people, categories, and other entities.
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Most readers should use the DNKB frontend rather than this backend interface. This wiki exists primarily for editing, administration, and direct access to the underlying Wikibase and narrative pages. Visit the DNKB here:
For editors and staff
If you have editing access, the DNKB frontend is usually the best place for day-to-day work:
- Add or edit a record (not online)
- Maintenance dashboard (not online)
- Recent changes
- Search this wiki
- All pages
- All properties
- Merge items
- Create a new item
- Create a new property
Please search before creating new records, and follow the DNKB ontology and property conventions when adding or editing data.
What is stored here?
This Wikibase contains structured data and linked narrative content for:
- Creative works
- Critical writing
- People, publishers, journals, events, and other related entities
- Controlled vocabulary values such as languages, countries, genres, programming languages, and distribution media
- Narrative MediaWiki pages connected to structured records
Technical links
Useful internal and technical endpoints: