1. Wikidata: A New Way to Disseminate Structured Data Luca Martinelli Rome, February 27 ʰ, 2014 Submission released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license

2. What is Wikidata? A new Wikimedia Foundation project a free, collaborative, multilingual secondary knowledge base

3. A... database Secondary Free Collaborative Multilingual

4. The goals of Wikidata 1) Centralising project links 2) Collecting structured data 3) Creating automatic queries 4) Providing support for third parties

5. Which data? Links to other items Alphanumeric codes Images from Wikimedia Commons Quantities Temporal coordinates (dd/mm/yyyy) Geographic coordinates URI addresses

6. Which (future) data? Quantities with units of measurements Monolingual texts Multilingual texts...anything else?

8. The "statements"

14. Which projects?

15. Which future projects?

16. The Wikidata licenses (service pages) (data)

17. Some statistics Launched on October 30 th, 2012 +14,000,000 items created +30,000,000 statements created +240,000,000 lines of code removed ~116,000,000 edits made

18. Items with a... code VIAF: 472,734 ISNI: 189,631 GND: 275,873 LCCN: 191,906 BNF: 139,747 SBN: 2,218 BAV: 990

22. Other opportunities Wikidata:Books task force Thesaurus BNCF (9.898 items) bibliotecari@wikimedia.it Partnership EAGLE-WMI (~3,000 epigraphies)

23. Join us! https://www.wikidata.org

24. Thank you for your attention

25. Credits File:Wikimedia_Italia-logo.svg, author: Jollyroger; license: © & ™ All rights reserved, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. File:Wikidata-logo-en.svg, author: Planemad; license: © & ™ All rights reserved, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. File:CC_some_rights_reserved.svg, author:Palmtree3000; license: GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Netherlands File:Wikimedia_logo_family_complete-2013.svg, author: Wikimedia Foundation; license: © & ™ All rights reserved, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. File:CC-Zero-badge.svg, author: Creative Commons; license: ™ Creative Commons File:Cc-by-sa_(1).svg, author: Creative Commons; license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-it.svg, author: Wikimedia Foundation; license: © & ™ All rights reserved, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. File:Wikivoyage-Logo-v3-en.svg, author: AleXXw; license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported / © & ™ All rights reserved, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. File:OptiCommons-logo-en.svg, author: Palosirkka; license: © & ™ All rights reserved, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. File:Wikisource-logo-fr.svg, author: Otourly, Mxn; license: © & ™ All rights reserved, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. File:Wikidata_statement.svg, author: Kaganer, Kolja21, Bjankuloski06en, Lydia Pintscher; license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported File:Italy-bordering.png, author: Denny Vrandecič; license: public domain File:Index.png, author: Denny Vrandecič; license: public domain File:Egl_web_logo.png, author: EAGLE network; license: http://www.eagle-network.eu/about/credits/ File:Wikipe-tan's past, now and future2.png, author: Taketa, M5; license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported / GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 All other images not mentioned here have been made by the author of the presentation and released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.