Presentazione tenuta durante il convegno "Faster, smarter and richer. Reshaping the library catalogue", tenuto presso la Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, il 27-28 febbraio 2014.
Wikidata: A New Way to Disseminate Structured Data
1. Wikidata: A New Way to
Disseminate Structured Data
Luca Martinelli Rome, February 27ͭ , 2014ʰ
Submission released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license
2. What is Wikidata?
A new Wikimedia Foundation project
a free, collaborative, multilingual
secondary knowledge base
4. The goals of Wikidata
1) Centralising project links
2) Collecting structured data
3) Creating automatic queries
4) Providing support for third parties
5. Which data?
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Links to other items
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Alphanumeric codes
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Images from
Wikimedia Commons
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Quantities
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Temporal coordinates
(dd/mm/yyyy)
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Geographic coordinates
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URI addresses
17. Some statistics
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Launched on October 30th
, 2012
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+14,000,000 items created
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+30,000,000 statements created
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+240,000,000 lines of code removed
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~116,000,000 edits made