Asaf Bartov: Wiki + data = Wikidata (and why you should care)

Tuesday November 20th, 3:46pm-3:53pm @ Soundings Theatre

Asaf Bartov , Wikimedia Foundation , Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities

Wikidata is the Wikimedia movement's structured and linked data repository (a sister project to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons). It is based on standard linked data technologies (RDF, SPARQL, etc.), with all the advanced collaboration and accountability features of wikis. In just six years it has amassed structured data about more than 51 million items, with billions of individual data statements. It is increasingly a collaboration venue and a discovery and interoperability nexus between disparate repositories. WIKIDATA LOVES YOU and wants you to succeed!

[DougGrinbergs]

1:41 structured data triple: subject, predicate, object - item, property, value. 3:20 uses. 6:03 query results can include map. 6:31 amazing things built on top of wikidata.

[JaneDarnell]

Great summary! Time pressure always brings out the best in Asaf

[tiagolubiana]

Amazing! I've joined WIkidata about a year ago. I really hope I was not too late! I wanna be a Wikidata hipster too!

[fkalajanga]

Great presentation. Easy to understand..

[jamespopoola]

Thanks a lot for this! It's very lucid and unambiguous.

[josejoelmartinez]

Para mi, Wikipedia es una luz, que brilla en la oscuridad de los más necesitados. Gracias