Hi Lewis
The majority of our projects now use Wikidata in some way, so it's hard to
list them all, but thought you might be interested in some examples:
- The Vocal Eyes project will add the information from their report to
Wikidata. Volunteers went to heritage sites to gather data on the
accessibility of the sites for visitors with access barriers, e.g. blind,
deaf, and autistic visitors.
- The Wikimedian in Residence at the British Library used Wikidata for
the Lotus Sutras project - looking at a potential for some Chinese
labelling and querying of the extant Lotus Sutra and data on Wikimedia
Commons and Wikidata.
- The Wikimedian in Residence at the Khalili Collections continues to
add detail to the Wikidata representation of the Collections. There are now
more than 10,000 statements about Khalili Collections objects, including
properties of paintings within manuscripts and albums. Sum of all
Paintings, the effort to document all notable paintings in Wikidata, now
lists the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art with 95 paintings.
- At the National Library of Wales, the resident continues work on
mapping Welsh place names. He is working with NLW staff to align our
authority records to Wikidata, and merging some Welsh place names on
Wikidata due to duplication.
- The Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh continues
to support training for Wikidata, including two internships for the map of
accused witches. In fact, the success of the Wikidata Map of Accused
Witches in Scotland website has garnered a lot of notice locally,
nationally and internationally as a model for opening up research datasets
for further research and inquiry, especially when it is done as part of
teaching and learning to support students’ understanding of data science.
This project has led directly to the Mapping the Scottish Reformation
project (an ongoing collaboration) with partners at Newman University,
Birmingham, and Washington & Lee University, USA. It has also led to a
nascent project as of June 2021 with Dr. Zsusanna Vargas on a project to
visualise a map of places of publication for 700-900 books. There is a
sense of a growing appetite for providing more training for Wikidata work
to support research datasets as certain research grants specify that
research outputs be made openly available.
There's more projects than just these ones, but these give you a taste of
the kind of thing we're using Wikidata for. Wikidata is particularly useful
for our newest strategic pillar of climate and environment, as it helps us
map climate data on the Wikimedia projects. Our partners for this pillar
are also very interested in using Wikidata to get their scientific data,
reports about climate initiatives, collections of wildlife information etc.
onto the Wikimedia projects.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Best wishes
Katie
On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 at 06:25, Charles Matthews <
charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
I'm working on a birthday present.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML-ULyARpU4 is an interesting, top-down
survey of Wikidata at Ten, including an academic at King's College London.
(Lengthy discussions.)
Charles
On 20/10/2022 21:32 Lewis Cawte <lewiscawte(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Just wondered if anyone knew of any UK-based Wikidata 10th birthday events
happening next weekend?
Doesn't look like the chapter currently has any (public) plans to do
anything - is there much Wikidata interest in the chapter's sphere of
influence?
-- [[User:Lcawte|Lewis Cawte]]
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