Amy Ruskin on why it was useful for the Boston Research Center to use their own Wikibase rather than Wikidata proper:
- Notability concerns
- Privacy controls
- Control of data model (no property proposal process)
- Edit access (mitigate vandalism, unwanted edits)
https://2022.code4lib.org/talks/Wikidata-vs-custom-Wikibases-Community-history-case-studies