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Wikidata report

Go Siobhan!

By Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing)

WikidataCon 2019 application, program submission and scholarship processes are now open until April 29th
An official WMF URL shortener is due to launch on 11 April; see Wikidata:URLShortener. This will be incorporated into the Query Service in due course.
Structured Data on Commons: You can now test creating depicts statements
The Property Statistics dashboard was launched in the Sum of all Paintings project - this visually tracks the completion % of the most commonly used properties for paintings, on a per-collection basis. You can now see very quickly where any given GLAM, in any given country, is ahead (or behind) others in the consistency and completeness of their metadata. The system has already been adapted for use on the railways, and the video games, wikiprojects.
OpenRefine 3.2 beta was released, with a collection of new features and bug fixes, many of which improve the Wikidata integration.
Discussion going on in W3C SPARQL 1.2 Community Group about the improvements in SPARQL language
OpenStreetMap is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code, and quite a few of the project ideas involve Wikidata integration.

Congratulations to Siobhan Leachman (d:User:Ambrosia10), awarded the "Companion of the Auckland War Memorial Museum" medal for her volunteer work, including contributions to Wikidata.

Data Quality Management in Wikidata – Workshop write-up, by Cristina Sarasua, Claudia Müller-Birn, and Mariam Farda-Sarbas
Museum Collections on Wikipedia: Opening Up to Open Data Initiatives by Elena Villaespesa and Trilce Navarrete
What Wikidata offers Oxford’s GLAM Digital Strategy, Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
A new data type is available : musical notation
A project to link branded businesses in OpenStreetMap to Wikidata
"Build your own Digital Bodleian with IIIF and SPARQL", Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
"Combining AI and Human Judgment to Build Knowledge about Art on a Global Scale", Andrew Lih, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wikimedia Strategist
The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised: Twitter thread

For all other Wikidata news, new properties, etc, see:

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