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@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@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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