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
What is Wikidata? A new Wikimedia Foundation project a free, collaborative, multilingual secondary knowledge base
A... database Secondary Free Collaborative Multilingual
The goals of Wikidata 1) Centralising project links 2) Collecting structured data 3) Creating automatic queries 4) Providing support for third parties
Which data? Links to other items Alphanumeric codes Images from Wikimedia Commons Quantities Temporal coordinates (dd/mm/yyyy) Geographic coordinates URI addresses
Which (future) data? Quantities with units of measurements Monolingual texts Multilingual texts...anything else?
The "statements"
Which projects?
Which future projects?
The Wikidata licenses (service pages) (data)
Some statistics Launched on October 30 th, ,000,000 items created +30,000,000 statements created +240,000,000 lines of code removed ~116,000,000 edits made
Items with a... code VIAF: 472,734 ISNI: 189,631 GND: 275,873 LCCN: 191,906 BNF: 139,747 SBN: 2,218 BAV: 990
Other opportunities Wikidata:Books task force Thesaurus BNCF (9.898 items) Partnership EAGLE-WMI (~3,000 epigraphies)
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