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Wikidata report
Want new tools? We've got 'em!
By Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing)
News
- Wikidata trainings & online courses for librarians, by WikiEdu
- The W3C Entity Reconciliation Community Group has launched
- The Wikibase community Telegram group has been recreated, here's the invitation link
- Structured Data on Commons: qualifiers for depicts support were enabled; see Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report
- Wikipedia and Wikidata user contributions as part of Wikipedia for Peace at Europride Vienna 2019
- At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary) a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved (in Dutch).
Your reading list
- Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property P6426.
- Placing EveryPolitician on hold by MySociety ("it's clear that Wikidata should be the natural global home for this type of data")
- Welcome Japan Search to the web of Linked Open Data by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library
- Treasured Manuscript collection gets the Wikidata Treatment, on the National Library of Wales' blog
- Robustifying Scholia — Developing a Wikipedia interface for exploring the research ecosystem
- On the road to joint embedding with Wikidata lexemes? by Finn Årup Nielsen
- Celebrity Profiling by Matti Wiegmann et al.,
- Wikidata as opportunity for special collections: the 20th Century Press Archives use case. Presentation at LIBER 2019 (LOD working group of the Association of European Research Libraries), by Joachim Neubert
- Demonstrating Spindra: A Geographic Knowledge Graph Management System, Yuhan Sun, et al (in 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering)
- Comparing DBpedia, Wikidata, and YAGO for Web Information Retrieval, Sini Govinda Pillai, et al.
- Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, Finn Årup Nielsen
- Combining embedding methods for a word intrusion task Finn Årup Nielsen, et al
- Query expansion using Wikidata attributes’ values Sarah Dahir, Abderrahim et al., in ICCWCS'19
- Automatic Question Generation based on MOOC Video Subtitles and Knowledge Graph Lin Ma, Yuchun Ma, in ICIET 2019
- Wikidata as a linked-data hub for Biodiversity data, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
- Using Crowd-curation to Improve Taxon Annotations on the Wikimedia Infrastructure, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
- Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to Share RDF Data Models and to Guide Curation with Rigorous Validation, et al. Best in-use paper award ESWC
- From “an” Identifier to “the” Identifier, Theo van Veen
- Published in ArXiv:
- EventKG - the Hub of Event Knowledge on the Web - and Biographical Timeline Generation - Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova
- Assessing The Factual Accuracy of Generated Text Ben Goodrich, et al.
- Enriching Bibliographic Data by Combining String Matching and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Improve the Measurement of International Research Collaboration Xuan Nguyen, et al.
- DocRED: A Large-Scale Document-Level Relation Extraction Dataset by Yuan Yao et al.
- ConTrOn: Continuously Trained Ontology based on Technical Data Sheets and Wikidata by Kobkaew Opasjumruskit et al.
- WikiDataSets: Standardized sub-graphs from WikiData, Armand Boschin
Videos
- OSM/ Wikidata meetup at OSM-UK's AGM (several talks)
- Developing workflows for local authority file conversion from MARC to Wikidata
Tech news
- Shape expressions are now live on Wikidata
- When typing an item ID on Special:Search, labels are now shown in the suggestion menu
- Batches of Rust - Magnus' improvements to QuickStatements
- The development of Wikidata Bridge (editing Wikidata's data from Wikipedia) started
- Result format change for Query Service JSON query output
- Filename scheme for Wikidata RDF entity dumps will change
New tools
- Hauki is a new tool by d:User:Vesihiisi to browse lexicographical data.
- Wikidata-Toolkit 0.10.0 was released
- New Grafana board: number of edits per namespace
- CheckShex userscript adds an in-page way of checking if an item fits an Entityschema
Other news
For all other Wikidata news, new properties, etc, see:
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_06_03
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_06_10
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_06_17
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_06_24
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