Sorry for being late to this great thread - I am definitely interested in pursuing the integration of Wikidata workflows with those of organizations hosting in-scope data. That was actually the gist of the Wiki4R proposal [1], and while it did not get funded, I think it contains a number of nuclei for further activities in this space to build on.
As for partners beyond the World Bank, I'd be happy to help piloting something here at NIH beyond the Gene Wiki's [2] Wikidata activities (which are NIH-funded). We already have about 20 NIH-related properties [3].
Cheers, d.
[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research/EIN... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ProteinBoxBot [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:NIH_properties
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
After having a chance to chat (at different times and in different conversations) with Sylvia and Lydia, I find this project very interesting. Being able to feed Wikidata with referenced data gathered periodically from the World Bank database sounds useful already, but I think we could take this initiative as a pilot for how to work with these types of organizations.
The point where we are today with organizations hosting open data is similar to our relationship with galleries, libraries, archives, and museums before GLAM or Wikipedians in residence existed. Many discussions, new precedents, tools, and processes were needed to reach the point where we at today in GLAM, and there is still so much to do, but everybody agrees that the effort is clearly worth.
Today we miss platform features, tools, and processes to visit (or receive the visit) of organizations with large open datasets, hook onto their APIs, and retrieve their interesting data. The World Bank is a potential good use case: they provide many numbers used in infoboxes of articles of countries which are updated manually in hundreds of Wikipedias (and in Wikidata), they are actively interested in collaborating, and the Wikimedia Foundation can contribute some of the "overhead" on partner relations and, if needed, project management. With time, and if this pilot progresses well, Sylvia's team and whoever wants to be involved could start knocking other doors. Who knows, maybe the first generation of Wikidata-scientists in residence are not that far off? :)
I'm tempted of proposing a #World-Bank-Data project in Phabricator if only to lay down the basic plan, define the dependencies with Wikidata et al, and start discussing the specifics that can be discussed today... but I don't want to run faster than needed, so I'll wait until more people (and specially Sylvia and Lydia) think it's a good idea.
An example of task in that project would be
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
On 27.05.2015 10:31, Andy Mabbett wrote:
It seems to me that the biggest single useful thing the WB (and any other open data publisher) could do would be to include Wikidata IDs (as URIs) in its linked data. For instance, if it refers to "Qatar", it should do so with the URI "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q846"; if it refers to "cotton", it should use "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11457".
Yes, that would be great. However, please use the URIs, e.g.,
Interesting, although I guess we will be in a better position to propose this when we have some plan to import their data. Meanwhile, just for the sake to refine this idea: note that WB already has http://data.worldbank.org/country/qatar, and it would make sense for them to link there in the first place. If you were in http://data.worldbank.org/country/qatar, where would you expect a link to https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q846 and with which kind of message? Or are you suggesting something else?
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