Slides and attached script for a presentation delivered to the Te Papa natural history team explaining how to use ORCID, Wikidata and Bionomia to link both living and deceased Te Papa natural history collectors and determiners to their specimens. It explains how this linking, the creation of Bionomia profiles for Te Papa staff, and the integration of those Bionomia profiles with Zenodo, can be used by Te Papa staff to help obtain professional credit for their work. It also explains how these workflows can be used to enrich Te Papa’s person data more generally, ensuring it can be improved prior and subsequent to export into GBIF. This presentation also outlines how this improvement will prepare Te Papa’s person data for use in digital extended specimens.