Wikidata training 2017
Wikidata Belgium 2017 is a training on Wikidata organized by Wikimedia Belgium.
Purpose edit
Wikidata is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation: a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary database, collecting structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other Wikimedia projects, and well beyond that. Wikidata contains public data which serves a variety of applications. Primarily, Wikidata is the linked structured database for Wikipedia and its sister projects. However, due to the open license and its APIs, use cases extent to a variety of applications. We plan to organise a series of Wikidata tutorials, to showcase its application. By example participants are guided through (1) adding data - either manually or by batch loading, and (2) querying the content through Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint (http://query.wikidata.org), (3) analysing Wikidata content with analysis and visualisation platforms such as R.
Previous activities:
- 29 January 2016 - Wikidata meeting for cultural institutions organised by PACKED vzw at Faro in Brussels (info | photos | final report published (archived) | publication) (Sandra Fauconnier, Multichill, Romaine)
- Publication of whitepaper: Flemish art collections, Wikidata and Linked Open Data/Whitepaper
Tentative outline edit
- What are the legal constraints in getting data into Wikidata?
- How to enter data into Wikidata?
- How to capture provenance/referencing to the original source?
- How is Wikidata to be used?
Possible topics may include queries, front ends, applications. Other topics may be covered, depending on audience wishes.
Registration edit
Participants should have a Wikipedia account, and a basic familiarity with Wikipedia editing. You also need to bring your own laptop/device.
Location edit
- To be announced
Contacts edit
Partners edit
- No official partners yet.
Budget edit
- Renting costs (max 300 EUR http://www.mundo-b.org/pdf/fr/27-Mundo_b_Flyers_2016_format_A5_FR.pdf)
- Renting costs (max: Non commercial fees 40 euro, commercial fee: 250 euro: (http://www.252cc.be/nl/page/1754/zaalverhuur)
Timeline edit
- February 2017: preparations project (planning, team, budget,
- March 2017: grant proposal submitted to WM BE
- March 2017 - April 2017: tutorial
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