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2 days ago · This is the fifth post in the series that will go deep into the fourth slide of the workshop: the challenges, especially in terms of tools, that participants found when working with Wikidata as librarians. In this case, we asked them to divide the answers into particular tools and aspects, plus the reasons why they thought this was a challenge.
3 days ago · The nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation provides the essential infrastructure for free knowledge. We host Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, created, edited, and verified by volunteers around the world, as well as many other vital community projects.
5 days ago · Wikidata was created to be a structured data commons—a place where humans could create and interact with machine readable linked data. While they primarily support other Wikimedia projects, the data are freely available to anyone. The PCC pilot project recognized that Wikidata had naturally grown into a popular identifier hub.
4 days ago · Each Wikidata item has attributes describing it such as a plain text description in multiple languages. These attributes use the P prefix and a number, such as P31 for the instanceof property, the type of the item. Wikidata location items have very often geographic coordinates with the P625 attribute.
Jun 12, 2024 · Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia. Beyond Wikimedia projects, Wikidata also provides support to many other sites and services, including the Google Knowledge Graph.
6 days ago · "Wikidata for Firefox" is a browser extension that allows users to easily access information from Wikidata while browsing the web. Wikidata is a free, collaborative, multilingual knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.
2 days ago · It powers several wiki hosting websites across the Internet, as well as most websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote, Meta-Wiki and Wikidata, which define a large part of the set requirements for the software.
