Wikibase developments March-April-May 2022 - Netherlands Wikibase Knowledge Group, 18-05-2022

Overview of some developments in the Wikibase ecosystem in the period March-April-May 2022. This update was part of the second meeting of the Netherlands Wikibase Knowledge Group on 18 May 2022

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Progress Wikibase.cloud migration

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T303852
• https://www.wikibase.cloud/create-account
• Join the waiting list: https://lime.wikimedia.de/index.php/717538

Envel’s Yearly Summary

• March-May 2022: https://www.lehir.net/wikibase-yearly-summary-2022/

Projects

• FAIR+ project: https://fairplus-project.eu/ and FAIR+ WikiDraftWorks: https://github.com/FAIRplus/WikiDraftWorks
• EU Knowledge Graph:

• https://linkedopendata.eu/wiki/The_EU_Knowledge_Graph
• https://diff.wikimedia.org/event/%E2%99%BB%EF%B8%8F-the-eu-knowledge-graph-and-wikibasesync-how-the-european-commission-is-reusing-wikidata-data/
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Reuse_Days_2022/Outcomes/notes#The_EU_Knowledge_Graph_and_WikibaseSync,_how_the_European_Commission_is_reusing_Wikidata_data
• 1 718 000 projects financed by the European Union under the Kohesio project
• https://www.wikimedia.de/presse/european-commission-goes-open-source-new-project-kohesio-uses-wikimedias-software-wikibase/
• https://kohesio.ec.europa.eu

Tools - Factgrid viewer

• FactGrid Viewer: JavaScript Wikibase browsing tool that can be modified to run on any Wikibase - grabbing information on the fly from Items and their contexts
• Viewer: https://database.factgrid.de/viewer
• Explanation: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/2684
• Code: https://github.com/Belhoste/factgridviewer/tree/master
• Example item: https://database.factgrid.de/wiki/Item:Q409 vs. https://database.factgrid.de/viewer/item/Q409
• Compare with Wikidata SQUID https://sqid.toolforge.org/#/view?id=Q5879

Events & meetings

• 20-22 May, Wikimedia Hackathon, Wikibase room: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Schedule
• 20 June, JCDL workshop: OpenRefine to Wikibase - A New Data Upload Pipeline - https://nfdi4culture.de/news-events/events/jcdl-workshop-open-refine-to-wikibase-a-new-data-upload-pipeline.html + https://2022.jcdl.org/workshops-tutorials/

Articles

• Wikidata/Wikibase as research data management (RDM) services: https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2022/03/16/examining-wikidata-and-wikibase-in-the-context-of-research-data-management-applications/ + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPMkuDxHJtI + https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2022/03/17/wikidata-and-wikibase-as-complementary-research-services-for-cultural-heritage-data/
• https://rhizome.org/editorial/2022/apr/19/community-centered-knowledge-management/ + Slides Dragan Espenscheid: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11kPmJsIcTCuYtKdwyBX4y0XGizzk9zBfb14nrIoeR1Q

Wikibase Stakeholders Group

• WBSG April 2022 meeting : https://notepad.rhizome.org/wbsg-2022-04-07#
• WBSG May 2022 meeting: https://notepad.rhizome.org/wbsg-2022-05-05#
• Discussions

• https://loomio.rhizome.org/d/tZWVIku8/what-kinds-of-contributions-could-members-make-to-the-stakeholder-group-
• https://loomio.rhizome.org/d/jXYBZxyn/linking-wikibase-to-other-linked-data-platforms
• https://loomio.rhizome.org/d/KB7eLCHr/reply-from-wmde-to-letter-about-of-institutional-requirements-for-wikibase
• https://loomio.rhizome.org/d/VvSjNsDk/automatedvalues-extension-during-show-and-tell-april-meeting