Presentazione tenuta durante il convegno "Faster, smarter and richer. Reshaping the library catalogue", tenuto presso la Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, il 27-28 febbraio 2014.

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

3. A ... database
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Secondary
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Free
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Collaborative
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Multilingual

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

6. Which (future) data?
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Quantities with units of measurements
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Monolingual texts
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Multilingual texts
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...anything else?

8. The "statements"

14. Which projects?

15. Which future projects?

16. The Wikidata licenses
(service pages)(data)

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

18. Items with a ... code
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VIAF: 472,734
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ISNI: 189,631
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GND: 275,873
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LCCN: 191,906
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BNF: 139,747
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SBN: 2,218
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BAV: 990

22. Other opportunities
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Wikidata:Books task force
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Thesaurus BNCF (9.898 items)
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bibliotecari@wikimedia.it
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Partnership EAGLE-WMI
(~3,000 epigraphies)

23. Join us!
https://www.wikidata.org

24. Thank you for your attention

25. Credits
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File:Wikimedia_Italia-logo.svg, author: Jollyroger; license: © & ™ All rights reserved, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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File:Wikidata-logo-en.svg, author: Planemad; license: © & ™ All rights reserved, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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File:CC_some_rights_reserved.svg, author:Palmtree3000; license: GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
Unported / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Netherlands
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File:Wikimedia_logo_family_complete-2013.svg, author: Wikimedia Foundation; license: © & ™ All rights reserved, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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File:CC-Zero-badge.svg, author: Creative Commons; license: ™ Creative Commons
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File:Cc-by-sa_(1).svg, author: Creative Commons; license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
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File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-it.svg, author: Wikimedia Foundation; license: © & ™ All rights reserved, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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File:Wikivoyage-Logo-v3-en.svg, author: AleXXw; license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported / © & ™ All rights reserved, Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
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File:OptiCommons-logo-en.svg, author: Palosirkka; license: © & ™ All rights reserved, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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File:Wikisource-logo-fr.svg, author: Otourly, Mxn; license: © & ™ All rights reserved, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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File:Wikidata_statement.svg, author: Kaganer, Kolja21, Bjankuloski06en, Lydia Pintscher; license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
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File:Italy-bordering.png, author: Denny Vrandecič; license: public domain
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File:Index.png, author: Denny Vrandecič; license: public domain
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File:Egl_web_logo.png, author: EAGLE network; license: http://www.eagle-network.eu/about/credits/
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File:Wikipe-tan's past, now and future2.png, author: Taketa, M5; license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic / Creative
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported / GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
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All other images not mentioned here have been made by the author of the presentation and released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
license.