GLAM/Newsletter/February 2016/Contents/Wikidata report
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Wikidata Tour Down Under
Wikidata Tour Down Under
Andy Mabbett spent three weeks touring Australia, talking about Wikidata and about his GLAM activities, following which he spent five days in Jakarta, Indonesia], also talking about Wikidata. His audiences included librarians and other GLAM staff, academics, academic publishers, and Wikipedians, plus staff of the Indonesian government's Language Research & Development Body. Slides and other resources are on line, and links to videos of some talks will be added to that page as they become available.
Outcomes to date include a VALA conference session video (accessible to conference attendees only), an ALIA-WA blog post, Wikidata makes Wikipedia a database. Let the fun begin - an article by Mark Pesce, in The Register, and a large number of new labels and descriptions in various Indonesian languages.
See the Australia and New Zealand report for further coverage.
Tech developments
- External identifiers are now held and displayed separately to other properties (the conversion process is ongoing)
- New page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
- New property browser
- Replicator: Wikidata import tool
- Paper: From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
GLAM news
- Blog posts
- Wikidata now supports Wikiversity
- Map of museums, coloured after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
- A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage
- Mix'n'match has new catalogues: WomenWriters, UNESCO Global Geopark Network, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica [who they? - ed]
New GLAM-related properties
- National Historic Sites of Canada ID
- ČSFD film ID
- Box Office Mojo franchise ID
- Box Office Mojo studio ID
- WomenWriters ID
- Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID
- Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID
- Italian Senate of the Republic ID
- recording or performance of
- in work
- bore (for engine cylinders)
- stroke
- Wikidata usage instructions (for adding notes to other properties)
