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This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue VIII, August 2017

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Wikidata report

Meeting Europeana; Conference News

By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) & SandraF

Special Reports

WikidataCon is coming

With 200 attendees, WikidataCon the Wikidata Conference, on 28 & 29 October, is now fully booked. The WikidataCon programme is also published. If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.

Wikimania Roundup

Videos and notes from Wikimania are now collated, see the Wikimania 2017 summary blog post. Those relevant to Wikidata include:
- You can try the demo system for lexicographical data
- Talk: Structured Commons: what changes are coming? by Sandra Fauconnier
- Talk: New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons by Jarekt
- List of wishes during the "Wikidata pink pony session"
- Talk: the (Wiki)data (R)evolution, by Lydia Pintscher
- Talk: Wikidata and performing arts by Beat Estermann during Wikimania
- Talk: How to use Wikidata in infoboxes (panel)
- New template: A fully automated template system was presented: Oh!WTFs
- Talk: Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge/5306122/1 WikiCite: Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge
- Notes about the Wikispecies & Wikidata session
- Documents to organize a Wikidata translathon: level 1, level 2, level 3 (by Kvardek_du) and the translathon tool (by Envel)

Europeana R&D and Wikidata meeting

Liam Wyatt (GLAMwiki Community Manager, Europeana), and Sandra Fauconnier (WMF's community liaison) met with Europeana R&D staff to explore collaboration possibilities around the forthcoming Structured Data on Commons project. Europeana has worked closely with many Wikimedia affiliates and projects over the years, including development of the GLAMwiki Toolset mass upload tool, organising the Art History Challenge - the largest ever GLAM-Wiki competition (and also the largest to be hosted on Wikidata), and the recently concluded Europeana 1914-1918 challenge (winners to be announced shortly).

Europeana is currently developing its own knowledge graph, the Entity Collection. A selection of more than 300,000 shared resources (people, locations and general subjects) that interlink the GLAM collections available through their services. Europeana is interested in connecting this entity collection to (and getting more data from) Wikidata, for mutual benefit, and has also recently published a case study that encourages its data partners to link their own vocabularies to Wikidata.

Valentine Charles (Europeana's Data R&D coordinator) and Liam Wyatt will be present at WikidataCon (see above), leading a round-table discussion on GLAM data and Wikidata.

GLAM news

New documentation page: How to use Wikidata data on Wikimedia projects (feel free to help improving it)
New external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 displays cultural heritage monuments worldwide, using Wikidata
More than eighty thousand locations in Belgium have been added to Mix'n'Match

Tech developments

New user scripts
- Overpass - adds a map showing features tagged, in OpenStreetMap, with the ID of the current Wikidata item, if any
- moveClaim.js - allows claims to be moved across items.
Language codes fr-ca, eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, and zun are now available for monolingual text values
New external tools
- WD edits stats counting edits made on a certain dataset between two dates
- d3-sparql allows you to query a SPARQL endpoint and get the data in a d3js-useful format
Language fallback indicators hidden on variant fallback languages
Citation.js: Endpoint on RunKit shows a demo REST API to convert Wikidata entries into BibTeX, Bib.TXT, citations, and CSL-JSON.
Releases:
- version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component.
- DataValues Interfaces component in version 0.2.3.
- ValueView component in version 0.20.0