Very interesting, thanks for posting! The TED dataset is also quite
interesting for Wikidata, because we are missing the generic concepts
behind many Wikipedia articles. Most people complain that Wikipedia tends
to dive into indepth information without giving adequate coverage in an
overview article. Many overview articles have grown beyond normal viewing
capacity on a mobile phone and probably should be split into 2nd and 3rd
tier wikipages giving explanations about branches of the subject. To see
what I mean, try viewing the English Wikipedia article for "Insurance" on
your phone.
The TED talks touch on many of such missing subject items and it would be
nice to crowdsource the creation of them. Your project could be possibly be
a way to direct contributors to quick explanations and/or uses of such
concepts. The fact that many TED talks are transcribed into so many
different languages means we may be able to harness these translations for
use in Wikidata labels. At least that is what I hope. Without labels,
nothing is findable on Wikidata and that is why we still are so slow
interlinking linkable items.
If your initiative takes off, it may be interesting to apply it to our own
set of film media on Commons, but very little of that has been linked to
Wikidata yet.
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy(a)eurecom.fr>
wrote:
> Good news blog post:
>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/22/ted-wikimedia-collaboration/
>>
>
> Great news! I didn't know neither that Wikidata has unique identifiers for
> so many TED talks.
>
> FYI, my group has worked 18 months ago on a prototype we called HyperTED.
> You can read about it at
> http://linkedup-project.eu/2014/10/14/vici-shortlist-hyperted/. There is
> also a presentation at
> http://www.slideshare.net/JosLuisRedondoGarca/hyperted-40494120. And you
> can play directly with the HyperTED prototype at
> http://linkedtv.eurecom.fr/HyperTED/
>
> In a nutshell, we used the TED talk metadata (subtitles divided into
> paragraphs) in order to provide chapters to TED talks. We have annotated
> them automatically using named entity recognition and disambiguation tools
> and topic detection algorithms. Hence, entities are disambiguated to
> dbpedia (but this could also be wikidata entities). Finally, we have
> developed an algorithm that detects hot spots in TED talks (read the
> scientific paper at
> http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/Publications/Redondo_Troncy-iswc14.pdf).
> Ultimately, as soon you watch chapters of TED talks, we are recommending
> you other chapters of other TED talks that may be related (because of
> common entities and topics). Instead of being a traditional recommender
> system that suggests you other TED talks, we perform recommendation at the
> fragment level.
>
> We are eager to receive any feedback. Be gentle with the demo, we are
> aware of some bugs and limitations.
> Best regards.
>
> Raphaël
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Yes, and most of those 2000 talks are linked to items about TED speakers.
We also have items for some of the larger TED events. More information
about the breakdown in talks is here:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:TED
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Markus Krötzsch <
markus(a)semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
> On 22.04.2016 18:41, Pine W wrote:
>
>> Good news blog post:
>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/22/ted-wikimedia-collaboration/
>>
>
> Interesting. I just checked, and, lo and behold!, we really have TED talk
> information in Wikidata :-)
>
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/view?id=Q23058816
>
> The page shows general statistics on the various types of TED talks we
> have, and let's you browse to concrete examples. Almost 2000 talks in total
> as of last Monday.
>
> Markus
>
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Hi!
The National Museum in Warsaw is currently beginning a new project with its
Wikipedian-in-Residence, centered around the Faras Gallery, the
archaeological discoveries at Faras, Nubian culture and related themes:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiprojekt:GLAM/Muzeum_Narodowe_w_Warszawie/…
(Main Commons category for the NMW with artworks from across its
collections can be found here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_Nation…
)
Over the next 5 months, a group of volunteer Wikipedians and new volunteer
editors (most of whom study or work in archaeology, art history and related
fields) will work on a set of articles; the Museum, and the Polish Academy
of Sciences (PAN) are in the process of uploading the Faras images to
Commons (images of artwork/documentation photos of the excavations/other
related images) - to illustrate the articles. Meanwhile, the volunteers
have already put together an impressive bibliography for the new articles,
largely in English.
We would like to invite volunteers from your communities to participate in
this project! We are looking for interested Wikipedians to help verify,
translate or contribute to articles in other languages, as well as make
suggestions regarding the selection of articles. The initial list of
articles to expand or create can be found here:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiprojekt:GLAM/Muzeum_Narodowe_w_Warszawie/…
The Faras image categories:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Polish_excavations_at_Faras
(the initial batch, some images to be replaced by higher-res versions);
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Faras_Gallery_of_the_National_M…
We will also be contacting the National Museum in Khartoum, where "the
other half" of artworks found at Faras are located.
Anyone interested is invited to participate! Please also forward to any
potentially interested existing GLAM contacts. All questions are welcome
:-)
Thanks!
Marta Malina
Forwarding a blog post about concept tagging with Wikidata. (:
Pine
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Date: Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 3:03 AM
Subject: [Wikidata] Using Wikidata for tagging at Yle
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Hey everyone :)
One of the major use cases we have for Wikidata (next to providing general
purpose data about the world and acting as a hub that connects many
different databases) is concept tagging. So far not much has happened in
that space it seems compared to the other two. Just recently I came across
a tweet talking about the use of Wikidata for exactly that at the Finnish
Broadcasting Company and I asked for some more details. Micke has now
written down what they're doing and how they did it in a blog post:
http://wikimedia.fi/2016/04/15/yle-3-wikidata/ Great use of Wikidata's
concepts and stable IDs.
Cheers
Lydia
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Oggetto: [cultural-partners] Biggest donation of photos in Italy - Paolo
Monti (BEIC)
Data: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 16:26:20 +0200
Mittente: marcok
Hi to all,
I’m the Wikipedian in residence at the digital library of Fondazione
BEIC, Milan, Italy.
In the last days we at BEIC are uploading almost the entire photo
archive of a notable Italian photographer, Paolo Monti, counting 15.000
images.
The whole archive was acquired by Fondazione BEIC in 2008.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_by_Paolo_Monti
For what I know, this is the biggest donation of images in one shot ever
made in Italy. It’s also the first time that a digital archive from a
famous photographer is almost completely uploaded into Commons.
This notable result was possible thanks to the long-lasting
collaboration between BEIC and Wikimedia Italia, started in 2014, and
also thanks to the technical assistance of Federico Leva aka Nemo, the
previous WiR at BEIC, now GLAM specialist at Wikimedia Italia.
The photos of the Paolo Monti archive represent a variety of subjects
(art, events, architecture, people, portraits, nature, artistic nudes,
experimental) and were shot since 1950s to 1980s. Many of them are B/W,
but there are also many fascinating colourful artistic/experimental
pictures.
We are now beginning to work on:
* fixing categories (often translating the basic original italian
keywords into english Commons categories) and providing a more detailed
categorization
* inserting useful images into Wikipedia articles (in italian, english
and other languages)
* selecting the best photos to candidate them as "featured pictures”
in Wikimedia Commons (only those with 2 Megapixel or more).
Please help us, this is a huge work!
If you have any other ideas on how the images may be used, let us know!
Thank you,
Marco Chemello
Wikipedian in residence, Fondazione BEIC, Milan
(also Wikipedian in residence at the Science Museum, Milan)
See:
http://www.beic.it/en/articles/digital-libraryhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BEIChttps://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:GLAM/BEIC (main project page)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BEIChttp://www.beic.it/en/node/1969 (Fondo Paolo Monti - in Italian)
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Hi all!
Today starts a new photo contest organized by Wikimedia Spain and focused
on festivals declared of touristic interest in Spain: Wiki Loves Folk. The
contest aims to collect images freely licensed to illustrate content on
these festivals in Wikipedia and enhance the online presence of Spanish
folklore. Along with its monumental and environmental richness, Spain has a
rich and varied folklore: carnivals, food festivals, religious celebrations
as Easter or Corpus Christi, cultural and sporting events or popular
festivals, among others.
It is about sharing original photographs, taken recently or in the past,
between April 1 and 30, 2016 or, in a second period, between November 15
and December 15, 2016. The subject of the contest is all those festivals
declared of touristic interest by the various administrations:
international, national, regional, provincial and local levels. The
complete list, with additional information and a map for each region is
available at [http://wikilov.es/folk wikilov.es/folk], the competition
website. To participate, simply have an user account on Wikimedia Commons
and upload the pictures by following the steps on the web.
Best,
Rubén Ojeda | Programme Coordinator | Wikimedia España
rubenojeda(a)wikimedia.es | @rubojeda <https://twitter.com/rubojeda>
Forwarding.
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From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:35 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Applications open for WikiCite (Berlin, May 25-26,
2016)
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Research into Wikimedia content and
communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <
wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Citations and references are the building blocks of Wikimedia projects.
However, as of today, they are still treated as second-class citizens.
Structured data bases such as Wikidata offer a unique opportunity
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData> to
turn into reality over a decade of endeavors to build the sum of all
citations and bibliographic metadata into a centralized repository. To
coordinate upcoming work in this space, we're organizing a technical event
in late May and opening up applications for prospective participants.
*WikiCite 2016 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016>* is a
hands-on event focused on designing data models and technology to *improve
the coverage, quality, standards-compliance and machine-readability of
citations and source metadata in Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia
projects*. Our goal, in particular, is to define a technical roadmap for
building a repository of all Wikimedia references in Wikidata.
We are bringing together Wikidatans, Wikipedians, software engineers, data
modelers, and information and library science experts from organizations
including *Crossref*, *Zotero*, *CSL*, *ContentMine*, *Google*, *Datacite*,
*NISO*, *OCLC* and the *NIH*. We are also inviting academic researchers
with experience working with Wikipedia's citations and bibliographic data.
WikiCite will be hosted in *Berlin* on *May 25-26, 2016*. Participation to
the event is capped at about 50 participants and we expect to have a number
of open slots for applicants:
- if you were pre-invited and have already filled in a form, you will
receive a separate note from the organizers
- if you have not been invited but you would like to participate, please
fill in this application form <http://goo.gl/forms/Yv6rve2wCt> to give
us some information about you and your interest and expected contribution
to the event.
Please help us pass this on to anyone who has done important technical work
on Wikimedia references and citations.
*Important dates*
- *March 29, 2016*: applications open
- *April 11, 2016*: applications close
- *April 15, 2016*: notifications of acceptance are issued (if you
applied for a travel grant, we'll be able to confirm by this date if we
can
cover the costs of your trip)
For any question, you can contact the organizing committee:
wikicite(a)wikimedia.org
The organizers,
Dario Taraborelli
Jonathan Dugan
Lydia Pintcher
Daniel Mietchen
Cameron Neylon
*Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter
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