1. ALA Conversation Starter
24 June 2018
Leveraging Wikibase for library linked data workflows
John Chapman (OCLC, Inc)
Xiaoli Li (University of California, Davis)
ALA Conversation Starter
ALA Annual Conference 2018
#ALAAC18

2. Why?--Efficient, impactful workflows
Today
Searching
Copy cataloging
Original cataloging
Authorities
In the future
Amplified searching
Adding relationships
Entity management
Library-sourced vocabularies

3. What: Develop an Entity Ecosystem that facilitates:
Creation and editing of new entities
Connecting entities to the Web
Build a community of users who can:
Create/Curate data in the ecosystem
Imagine/propose workflow uses
Communicate easily with each other and with OCLC to iteratively improve the prototype
Provide services to:
Reconcile data
Explore the data

4. Disambiguating Wiki*
Wikipedia – a multilingual web-based free-content encyclopedia
MediaWiki - a free and open-source wiki software
Wikidata.org - a collaboratively edited structured dataset used by Wikimedia sister projects and others
Wikibase - a MediaWiki extension to store and manage structured data

5. Wikipedia
Wikidata
Wikimedia
what are some systems in wiki*?

6. Recording things people say about entities
Linking entities to other entities
Controlling, storing, delivering digital files and physical objects
what roles do the different systems play?

7. Online exhibits, reviews, annotations, courseware, interpretive labels
Linked Data Prototype (Wikibase), Discovery layers, Knowledge bases
CONTENTdm, OPACs, institutional repositories
what are the systems in library-land?

8. How: Wikibase advantages
Open source
An all-purpose data model that takes knowledge diversity, sources, and multilingual usage seriously
Collaborative – can be read and edited by both humans and machines
User-defined properties
Version history

9. Place Entity

10. Person Entity

12. Resource Entity # 1

14. Resource Entity #2

15. Project Passage Explorer