GLAM/Newsletter/August 2019/Contents/Wikidata report

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue VIII, August 2019

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Wikidata report

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By Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing)

Consultation

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Jobs

Several job vacancies related to Wikidata were published in the last few weeks:

Scribe, a Wikimedia Foundation funded software and research project, is looking for a full-stack software engineer
The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a software engineer for its Search Platform team, including work on Wikidata Query Service
Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer and a full-stack developer for Wikidata

News

Edit 1,000,000,000 - the one-billionth, or 10⁹ - was the creation of Q66665412, an item on the academic paper "The band structure in microwave frequency for quasi-1-D coaxial photonic crystals".
Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation's GLAM team are working on a more sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships. Read more about this initiative on meta.wikimedia.org.
soweego version 1.1 is on its way, thanks to a WMF Rapid Grant
QuickStatements won the Coolest Tool Award, category "editor", during the first ceremony at Wikimania 2019 - congratulations, Magnus!
There is now a Wikiquote page for Wikidata

Your reading list

"Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" OCLC Research. DOI: 10.25333/faq3-ax08
Wikidata: From "an" Identifier to "the" Identifier, Theo van Veen , Information Technology and Libraries.
Bridging the gap between linked open data-based recommender systems and distributed representations, Pierpaolo Basile, et al, Information Systems
What we talk about when we talk about Wikidata quality: a literature survey, by Alessandro Piscopo and Elena Simperl
The open source geocoder Nominatim used by the OpenStreetMap project participated in the Google Summer of Code with an internship working on integrating Wikidata as a ranking metric for its search results. Check the development blog
Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister
Conclusion of 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana Wikidata Editathon (grant report)
Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, article in PeerJ Computer Science
A systematic literature review on Wikidata (paywalled)
Opening up Research Data in Film Studies by Using the Structured Knowledge Base Wikidata', Adelheid Heftberger et al, in "Digital Cultural Heritage"
GeneDB and Wikidata - Magnus Manske, et al.
Wikidata from a Research Perspective -- A Systematic Mapping Study of Wikidata - Mariam Farda-Sarbas, Claudia Mueller-Birn
Enriquecimiento de entidades de Wikidata mediante un modelo de descomposición y mapeado de categorías de Wikipedia ("Enrichment of Wikidata entities through a decomposition model and mapping of Wikipedia categories" - text in Spanish)

Video

Introduction to OpenRefine by Emma (University of Edimburgh) (12min)

New Tools

ISA is a new tool to easily add structured data to Commons files, including from mobile
Item creation helpers helps create similar items, and link them together, with a simple form. Example with skating competitions