Wikidata talk:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022

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Discussions related to the Data Reuse Days are welcome here. If you have any question or need support (for example, to schedule and organize a session), feel free to contact Lea Lacroix (WMDE) directly (lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de or @Auregann on Telegram).

Template for session proposal[edit]

Here's a template you can use for proposing a session for the Data Reuse Days 2022, feel free to copy its content and create a new section below! (use the session title as the section title)

  • Session title: ...
  • Format: (suggestions: lightning talk (5min), presentation + discussion (50min), workshop (90min) - we encourage you to favour interactive formats, such as discussions and workshops)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): ...
  • Short description of the session: ...
  • Audience: (do participants need any specific knowledge or experience to join?)
  • Suggestions of time and date: (in UTC/GMT - from March 15 to 23, any time that isn't already taken in the schedule)
  • Language (if other than English)

Here you can add additional comments or requests, and ping @Lea Lacroix (WMDE): to make sure I reply to your proposal as soon as possible.

Scheduled proposals

Wikidata and AI for Social Good[edit]

  • Session title: Wikidata and AI for Social Good
  • Format: presentation + discussion (50min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Houcemeddine Turki, Wikimedia Tunisia and Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit, Tunisia
  • Short description of the session: At the information age, data is needed to drive intelligent systems in various domains, including healthcare, public administration and education. In underdeveloped countries where research funding is limited, the creation of data is difficult and even impossible. Here, Wikidata can be an interesting resource for computer scientists in developing countries. It is easily findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. It is multilingual and has a broad coverage of human knowledge in a fully structured format. Thanks to its API and its SPARQL Endpoint, Wikidata can be intuitively reused to drive computer programs. In this presentation, I explain how Wikidata can be reused to drive knowledge-based systems through the demonstration of several real-world applications of Wikidata in the context of knowledge engineering, natural language processing, cultural heritage, and biomedical informatics and I emphasize the significance of the reuse of Wikidata to develop computer science research in the Global South, particularly Africa, within the framework of Sustainable Development Goals.
  • Audience: Any
  • Suggestions of time and date: March 20, 2022 (Availability from 10 UTC to 22 UTC)
  • Language: English
Hi @Csisc:, thanks a lot for your proposal! It is definitely interesting.
Just so you know, the day you proposed being a Sunday, we will not be able to assist you with the session, but it should be pretty straight forward: we have an open Jitsi videoconference room, anyone can join, and you will be able to present, share slides and screen, etc. Moreover, we will schedule some testing sessions ahead of the event so you can get familiar with Jitsi.
We don't have any session scheduled on Sunday, March 20 yet, so feel free to give me the time that works best for you, and I will add your session in the schedule. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 15:16, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Lea Lacroix (WMDE): I will be available at 11 UTC or 15 UTC. --Csisc (talk) 10:39, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Csisc:! Great! I scheduled the session at 11:00 UTC (12:00 CET) on Sunday, March 20th. You can see it here, if you need to change anything in the description, let me know. I'll send you more information about the organization of the sessions by email. Thanks again, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 10:48, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Conzept encyclopedia[edit]

  • Session title: Conzept: An attempt to build an encyclopedia for the 21st century
  • Format: presentation + discussion (50min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Jama Poulsen (software developer, teacher at a school for gifted children)
  • Short description of the session: Conzept is a topic-exploration tool based on: Wikipedia, Wikidata, the Open Library, Archive.org, YouTube, the GBIF and many other information sources. A semantic web app build for fun, education and research. I will go through the main ideas behind Conzept. What the current status of the project is. What issues regarding Wikidata were encountered. And what the future roadmap may look like.
  • Audience: Wikipedia readers, people/organizations interested in knowledge base interfaces.
  • Suggestions of time and date: Thursday March 17, 2022 (Availability from 12 UTC to 20 UTC)
  • Language: English

Answered by email, waiting for confirmation of the time before adding to the schedule :) Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 15:26, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

✅ Scheduled. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 07:16, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Scribe: Leveraging Wikidata for Language Learning[edit]

  • Session title: Scribe: Leveraging Wikidata for Language Learning
  • Format: presentation + discussion (50min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Andrew McAllister (founder and main developer of Scribe)
  • Short description of the session: Scribe is an open-source iOS app that uses Wikidata lexicographical data to power keyboards for second language learners. In this session I'll give a demonstration of Scribe, talk about how it integrates data from Wikidata, and then I'd love to have an open discussion about it. Topics we could discuss include: data we could add to Wikidata and Scribe; new devices Scribe could be ported to; new languages keyboards that could be focussed on; in progress and potential features; my experiences using Wikidata as an app's data source; and anything else people would like to discuss!
  • Audience: Everyone is welcome
  • Suggestions of time and date: Wednesday March 16th, 2022 from 18:00 to 18:50
  • Language: English, with the demo being of Scribe's German keyboard

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE): let me know if you want to change anything about this :) Andrew McAllister (talk)

- I'm not sure if you all are accepting images for the event pages, but if so the app logo would fit for this :) Andrew McAllister (talk)

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 07:58, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikidata Infobox on Commons[edit]

  • Session title: The Wikidata Infobox on Commons
  • Format: presentation (30min) + discussion (20min) = 50min total
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Mike Peel
  • Short description of the session: Wikidata is used in nearly 4 million categories on Wikimedia Commons to display an Infobox that provides context about the category contents. Thanks to Wikidata, the Infobox is fully multilingual, helping non-English speakers to navigate Commons. I will talk about how the Infobox came about and the challenges that have been encountered so far. I will also discuss some of the challenges that haven't yet been solved, and why. Finally, I will describe a bit about how it is currently coded (using Module:WikidataIB - and how you can use this on your wikis), and what might change with it over the next year - before we go into open discussion.
  • Audience: Please browse Commons and see the Infobox in action before the session (if you haven't already!) - and please bring questions!
  • Suggestions of time and date: Sunday 20 March at 16.00 UTC (proposed - happy to adjust)
  • Language: English, Wikitext, Lua

Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:51, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 07:20, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lightweight entity linking with OpenTapioca[edit]

  • Session title: Lightweight entity linking with OpenTapioca
  • Format: presentation + discussion (50min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Pintoch (talk)
  • Short description of the session: OpenTapioca is a lightweight entity linking system, that can be used to annotate text with Wikidata entities. It can be trained from existing annotations on a target domain, and kept in sync with Wikidata as edits are made, encouraging contributions to Wikidata to fix annotation errors.
  • Audience: familiarity with Wikidata will be useful.
  • Suggestions of time and date: 22 March, 15:00 UTC (in UTC/GMT - from March 15 to 23, any time that isn't already taken in the schedule)
  • Language: English

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE): here is the proposal. − Pintoch (talk) 12:15, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 14:24, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

How Wikidata Powers ScienceStories.io[edit]

  • Session title: How Wikidata Powers ScienceStories.io
  • Format: presentation + discussion (50min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Kat Thornton and Kenneth Seals-Nutt
  • Short description of the session: Have you ever wanted to share a multimedia biography of a scientist from a diverse background? We will demo sciencestories.io and explain how contributions to Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and English Wikipedia help extend and improve these stories. We will go over the other types of resources that can be added to stories like Vimeo videos, YouTube videos, IIIF images, works from HathiTrust, Internet Archive and more. Join this session to celebrate stories of amazing people.
  • Audience: All are welcome
  • Suggestions of time and date: March 18 after 13:00
  • Language: English

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE): here is the proposal. YULdigitalpreservation (talk) 20:34, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 14:42, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata for data journalism (with R)[edit]

  • Session title: Wikidata for data journalism (with R)
  • Format: presentation + discussion (50min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Giorgio Comai, data cruncher for the European Data Journalist Network
  • Short description of the session: In this presentation, I will showcase some examples of how and why we introduced Wikidata in our data journalism workflows (from producing alternative Olympics medal tables, to enriching data on flights in Europe), as well as some of the core ideas behind the package for the R programming language we developed, `tidywikidatar`. `tidywikidatar` makes it easier to include Wikidata in the exploratory and iterative data process that is so common in data journalism, without the need to familiarise with SPARQL queries. Finally, I will focus on our latest ongoing project aimed at facilitating the scalability of initiatives dedicated to the matching of street names to the Wikidata items they are dedicated to (individuals, places, events, etc.), keeping OpenStreetMap in the mix (some context).
  • Audience: Some familiarity with Wikidata is of course useful. The presentation will describe core ideas and logic of the more technical parts, rather than go into actual coding (to be clear, no familiarity with R or programming in general is required)
✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 16:07, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Data reuse aspects of Scholia[edit]

  • Session title:Data reuse aspects of Scholia
  • Format: presentation + discussion (50min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): User:Daniel Mietchen and probably others from the Scholia team
  • Short description of the session: Scholia is a tool hosted at toolforge:scholia that provides interactive visualizations of scholarly content from Wikidata. It has multiple interactions with data reuse workflows: it combines data across Wikidata items, it pulls in information from other Wikimedia sites, it facilitates curation, it has inspired other Wikidata frontends, it is being adapted to work with backends other than the Wikidata Query Service, and it makes use of open-source software, which it also helps profile.
  • Audience: Anyone interested in scholarly data in Wikidata or in Wikidata-related software
  • Suggestions of time and date: Wednesday March 16 at 19:00 UTC
  • Language: The presentation will be in English. Questions and comments in any other language are welcome.

--Daniel Mietchen (talk) 10:05, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

✅ Scheduled! I only rephrase the title to highlight "scholarly data" more. Let me know if that doesn't work for you. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 16:35, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]


Linked People Project[edit]

  • Session title: Linked People: Exploring the World of Family Trees in Wikidata
  • Format: presentation + discussion (50min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Amin Anjomshoaa (Research Fellow at National University of Ireland)
  • Short description of the session: Linked People is a data visualization tool that benefits from the wealth of family relationships in Wikidata and creates family trees of characters (in movies, TV shows, and books) as well as individuals and well-known people. In this session, I will walk you through the implementation process and discuss the challenges encountered.
  • Audience: Any
  • Suggestions of time and date: Thursday March 17 or March 18, 2022 (Availability from 10 UTC to 20 UTC)
  • Language: English

Thanks a lot for this proposal! We're looking at other projects involving Wikidata family trees to create a combined session. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 15:27, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

✅ Scheduled as part of the family trees session. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 06:55, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata for data projects in Canada[edit]

  • Session title: Wikidata for data projects in Canada
  • Format: presentation + discussion (50min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Gregory Saumier-Finch, Caitlin Troughton
  • Short description: Wikidata is already being used as a resource for different initiatives in Canada including the Artsdata knowledge graph for the Performing Arts. In this session, Gregory Saumier-Finch of Culture Creates will present the re-use of Wikidata items in 2 different applications:
  1. Footlight,  a set of tools used to extract, view and manage metadata about performing arts events for Artsdata. Wikidata items on places, persons and organizations related to these events are used to enrich the metadata.
  2. Culture inTime, a calendar-like application of contemporary and historical performing arts production information where Wikidata is used as one of the linked data sources to aggregate information about performing arts productions. For example, Wikidata was used a few years ago to make available the production history of Schauspielhaus Zürich between 1938/39 – 1968/69, a database provided by the Zurich City Archive, and is currently used by the Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts (SAPA) to ingest the entire production history of Schauspielhaus Zurich from 1900/01 to 2020/21 as part of a pilot carried out to evaluate the feasibility of ingesting SAPA’s entire production history database [1].
  • Audience: Everyone is welcome.
  • Suggestions of time and date: in UTC/GMT - March 15, anytime between 2PM-8PM UTC
  • Language (if other than English)
✅ After a discussion with Caitlin, we decided to rephrase the session title as Wikidata for performing and visual arts to allow more projects in this field to be presented. We still have 1-2 slots for other projects! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 07:45, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Adding and Subtracting Wikidata for linguistic analysis in specialized domains[edit]

• Session title: Adding and Subtracting Wikidata Knowledge. Reusing Wikidata for linguistic analysis in specialized domains.

• Format:  presentation + discussion (50min)

• Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Rosario Uceda-Sosa , Alexandre Rademaker, Guilherme Lima, Maria Chang (IBM Research)

• Short description of the session: Ontologies deal with entities, agents, events and ideas, while linguistic resources (Propbank, Verbnet, Wordnet) describe the verbs and nouns we use to describe them. We’ve worked on ‘adding’ Wikidata to these linguistic resources and applying the resulting graph to applications in specialized domains (the ‘subtracting’ part). We’ll discuss how we are leveraging Wikidata in a variety of projects and share the resulting graphs (to be published in github)

• Audience: People interested in ontologies and NLP or interested in reusing WD in specialized domains.

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 07:16, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Histropedia: Triumphs and challenges of reusing Wikidata[edit]

  • Session title: Histropedia: Triumphs and challenges of reusing Wikidata
  • Format: presentation + discussion (50min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Navino Evans
  • Short description of the session: An overview of how Histropedia uses Wikidata currently, with a preview of our future plans for more in depth integration. This includes live demos to illustrate some of the more exciting things in the pipeline such as multi layered timelines to compare different topics side by side, as well as live Wikidata editing from within the Histropedia interface.
The session will also outline the challenges of automated data reuse for our use case, such as handling the ever changing subclass tree, difficulty identifying living people (or any other ongoing event), and knowing if an event was a first of it's kind (e.g. the first person on the moon).
Finally, there will be an open discussion about the types of content people would like to see covered in Histropedia 2.0, as well as any suggestions for overcoming the challenges outlined.
  • Audience: Everyone is welcome.
  • Suggestions of time and date: Can do any time/day except 23 March
  • Language (if other than English)

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE):

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 15:21, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Auto-updating Google Sheets spreadsheets from Wikidata queries[edit]

  • Session title: Auto-updating Google Sheets spreadsheets from Wikidata queries
  • Format: lightning talk (5min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Navino Evans
  • Short description of the session: Live demo of setting up an automated import from a Wikidata query into a Google Sheets spreadsheet, which is set to run on any chosen schedule (e.g. Once per day). The resulting data can be used to generate published visualisations which stay up to date with changes on Wikidata automatically. These can be created using built-in Google Sheets functions, or any third party tools which can use a Google Sheets spreadsheet as a data source. The demo will show how to generate a timeline with the Histropedia Sheets tool.
  • Audience: Everyone is welcome.
  • Suggestions of time and date: March 14 around 17:30 UTC
  • Language (if other than English)

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE):

✅ Scheduled during the opening session! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 08:33, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata apps with the metaphactory knowledge graph platform[edit]

  • Session title: Wikidata apps with the metaphactory knowledge graph platform
  • Format: presentation + discussion (50min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Peter Haase
  • Short description of the session: metaphactory is a low-code platform for building knowledge graph applications. In this session, we will show with practical examples how you can build your own app using metaphactory on Wikidata, including search, visualization and exploration interfaces, reconciling your own data with Wikidata, as well as federating Wikidata with other data sources. Live demo is available at https://wikidata.metaphacts.com/, examples to reproduce at https://github.com/metaphacts/wikidata.
  • Audience: Everyone is welcome. SPARQL knowledge helpful, but not a prerequisite.
  • Suggestions of time and date: March 21, 15:00 UTC
  • Language: English

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE):

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 09:10, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

KGTK: A toolkit for reusing Wikidata[edit]

  • Session title: KGTK: A toolkit for reusing Wikidata
  • Format: presentation + discussion (30min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Pedro Szekely
  • Short description of the session: KGTK, the Knowledge Graph Toolkit (https://github.com/usc-isi-i2/kgtk) has many commands to extract and transform data from Wikidata. KGTK converts Wikidata to tab-separated files and enables you to work with Wikidata on your laptop, with a query language that is often 10 times faster than SPARQL on a server, and enables you to do complex queries that do not time out. We will demonstrate KGTK on several use cases to build interesting subgraphs of Wikidata.
  • Audience: All are welcome
  • Suggestions of time and date: Any day after 17:00 UTC
  • Language: English

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE): here is my proposal.

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 07:18, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

KGTK Wikidata Browser[edit]

  • Session title: KGTK Wikidata Browser
  • Format: lightning talk (5min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Pedro Szekely
  • Short description of the session: The KGTK Wikidata browser is a fast Wikidata browser similar to SQID and Reasonator, providing additional information about classes and properties to help people who want to reuse Wikidata understand how Wikidata is organized.
  • Audience: All are welcome
  • Suggestions of time and date: Any day after 17:00 UTC
  • Language: English

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE): here is my proposal.

✅ Scheduled in the LT session on March 14. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 07:18, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata - The secret sauce in many JSTOR Labs projects[edit]

  • Session title: Wikidata and JSTOR Labs
  • Format: presentation + discussion (50min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Ron Snyder
  • Short description of the session: The JSTOR Labs team has used Wikidata in a number of projects over the last 5 years, some currently public, and others that were for internal exploration. In this presentation we will share our experience in both using Wikidata directly and federating it with a self-hosted instance of Wikibase in AWS (using Neptune for the RDF triplestore). We will provide a demo of 3 public Labs projects that are currently using Wikidata. The presentation will also include a short live-coding portion in which participants may follow along to create a simple visual essay using Juncture. In the remainder of the time will discuss future plans for LOD and IIIF, including an early idea/prototype using Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons structured data for semantic image search and auto-generation of IIIF manifests.
  • Audience: All are welcome
  • Suggestions of time and date: March 16 after 13:00
  • Language: English

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE): here is the proposal.

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 07:53, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Juncture - Building visual essays with Wikidata, IIIF, and maps[edit]

  • Session title: Juncture - leveraging open data to create visual essays
  • Format: workshop (90min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Ron Snyder
  • Short description of the session: Juncture is a free-to-use, open source framework for converting simple text files into an engaging visual essay. A visual essay is an interactive and responsive web page that augments a text narrative with visual elements to provide depth and context. Designed for narratives exploring complex and nuanced subjects, Juncture essays are linked open data aware (thanks to Wikidata) texts augmented with engaging and interactive components, including annotated high-resolution images, network visualizations, interactive maps and other elements. In this workshop we will provide a high-level overview of the Juncture tools, demo of a couple of sites currently using Juncture, and perform some live-coding in which participants may create their own visual essay if they wish.
  • Audience: All are welcome. For those that wish to participate in the live coding porting of the session to create a visual essay, a Github account and some familiarity with Markdown would be useful.
  • Suggestions of time and date: March 22 or 23 after 13:00
  • Language: English

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE): here is the proposal.

Not scheduled - after an email exchange with Ron Snyder, we decided to focus on the JSTOR Labs presentation, that will also include a short demo of Juncture. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 07:16, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Eu Knowledge Graph and WikibaseSync, how the European Commission is reusing Wikidata data ....[edit]

  • The Eu Knowledge Graph and WikibaseSync, how the European Commission is reusing Wikidata data
  • Format: presentation + discussion (30min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Dennis Diefenbach
  • Short description of the session: The Eu Knowledge Graph (https://linkedopendata.eu) is a Graph managed by the European Commission using as an infrastructure Wikibase, the same software that runs Wikidata. It contains information about countries, head of states, geographical regions, beneficiaries, projects founded by the EU, linked data application used in the commission and more. One of the main component of the EU Knowledge Graph is WikibaseSync (https://github.com/the-qa-company/WikibaseSync) a tool that allows to reuse data from Wikidata into another Wikibase instance. The EU Knowledge Graph is currently reusing 144.197 items from Wikidata and keeps them in Sync. We explain how data from Wikidata is reused, how it is ingested and kept up to date.
  • Audience: Everyone is welcome.
  • Suggestions of time and date: March 28, 16:00 UTC
  • Language: English

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE):

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 08:09, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]


QAnswer: query wikidata in natural language[edit]

  • QAnswer: query wikidata in natural language
  • Format: presentation + discussion (30min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Dennis Diefenbach
  • Short description of the session: Parts of Wikidata's knowledge is used by smart assistants like Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa. We will describe how it is possible to access Wikidata via QAnswer in a similar way as smart assistants do. QAnswer (https://wikidata.qanswer.ai) is a question answering engine that is able to convert natural language request into SPARQL queries. This allows to access structured Knowledge Graphs like Wikidata by non expert users. We will show example questions that can be answered using Wikidata and explain on a high level the technology that is behind.
  • Audience: Everyone is welcome.
  • Suggestions of time and date: March 30, 16:00 UTC
  • Language: English

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE):

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 08:09, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikxhibit: A tool to show off your Wikidata[edit]

  • Session title: Wikxhibit - Simple Authoring Tool to Create Interactive Presentations
  • Format: presentation + workshop (50min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Tarfah Alrashed
  • Short description of the session: We built Wikxhibit, a tool that allows users, even non-programmers, to create cool presentations of Wikidata, and other sources of data on the web, only using HTML and without any additional programming.
  • Audience: All are welcome
  • Suggestions of time and date: March 15, 16:00 UTC
  • Language: English

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE): here is my proposal.

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 07:48, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Cite Q[edit]

  • Format: lightning talk (min 5min; 10 min if possible),
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Andy Mabbett
  • Short description of the session: The template for reusing Wikidata metadata in citations in other projects such as Wikipedias
  • Audience: contributors to Wikimedia projects other than Wikidata
  • Suggestions of time and date: (in UTC/GMT - from March 15 to 23, any time (UTC-friendly!) that isn't already taken in the schedule)

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE): here is my proposal. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:38, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Pigsonthewing:, thanks a lot! Would the lightning talk session taking place on March 14 around 17:30 work for you, or would you prefer the fallback slot (March 21 at 17:00 UTC)? Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 13:37, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Lea Lacroix (WMDE): March 14 is great, thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:28, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
✅ Excellent! Your lightning talk is added here. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 17:28, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

OpenSanctions[edit]

  • Session title: OpenSanctions - an open source database of persons of interest
  • Format: lightning talk (5min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Friedrich Lindenberg, OpenSanctions
  • Short description of the session: OpenSanctions combines data from international sanctions, criminal watchlists and politically exposed persons into an open source due diligence dataset. Together with our partner project, Peppercat, we use Wikidata as a clearinghouse for information about office holders around the world. See also: https://opensanctions.org
  • Audience: Wikidata politics nerds
  • Suggestions of time and date: (adding to Wikidata for civic tech panel?)
✅ Scheduled in the civic tech session, as agreed. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 09:10, 24 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]


GeneWiki: The Wikidata Integrator[edit]

  • Format: workshop (90min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Andrawaag (talk)
  • Short description of the session: The GeneWiki project started in 2008 by providing gene annotations to Wikipedia. With the arrival of Wikidata the project shifted its focus from the English Wikipedia to Wikidata and have since created and maintained bots to allign biomedical databases with Wikidata. Initially the project worked with wrappers around the API of wikidata and the Wikidata Query Service. After a while those wrappers were combined into a python library called the Wikidata Integrator. In this workshop this package will be demonstrated.
  • Audience: Participants need to know (some) Python. Rosalind is a great source to acquire those skills
  • Suggestions of time and date: 2022-03-16 20:00->
✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 11:18, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Reusing Wikidata externally through Snowman[edit]

  • Session title: Reusing Wikidata externally through Snowman
  • Format: Interactive livestream, 60 minutes
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Abbe98 and Ainali
  • Short description of the session: We'll show how to use data from Wikidata through the Snowman framework, exemplifying through https://govdirectory.org
  • Audience: Intermediate knowledge of Wikidata will help, understanding how you can retrieve data through the query service.
  • Suggestions of time and date: Saturday, March 19, 19.00 UTC
  • Language: English

Ping @Lea Lacroix (WMDE):, here is our plan for livestream. Ainali (talk) 20:34, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 11:29, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Biohackathon: report on reviewing Wikidata subsetting methods[edit]

  • Format: workshop (50min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Jose Emilio Labra Goya, Seyed1411, Sulhasan, Andrawaag
  • Short description of the session: Often Wikidata is too big to handle. Through a sequence of biohackathons we have been reviewing methods to extract subsets from Wikidata to facilitate downstream reuse. We have identified a set of tools and would like to report back on our intermediate results. We will address the different applicable file formats. Natively, Wikidata data is stored in json, but it is also available as RDF through for example the Wikidata Query Service. Different subsetting methods use either or both of those formats as input and output. We will also address the way how to define the subset. This can be a JSON file or a Shape Expression.

Audience: Open to anybody, but it is helpful to have a basic understanding of wikidata daily dumps and the Wikidata Query Service for context why we are interested in this topic. Suggestions of time and date: --Andrawaag (talk) 21:26, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 13:49, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Open Food Facts and Wikidata - Structured food for thought[edit]

  • Session title: Open Food Facts and Wikidata - Structured food for thought
  • Format: presentation + discussion (50min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Pierre Slamich (@Teolemon)
  • Short description of the session: Open Food Facts is the “Wikipedia of Food”. We empower people to make enlightened food choices for their health and the environment. We’re progressing on a journey to turn packaging into raw data, and turn this raw data into personalized and actionable knowledge. In order to achieve that, we have long used Wikidata to build our curated taxonomies, and are now looking at more advanced uses. The presentation of Open Food Facts will be followed by a deep dive on how we use Wikidata, and a “state of food data” on Wikidata, which will kick off discussions !
  • Audience: Basic knowledge of Wikidata is required
  • Suggestions of time and date: (in UTC/GMT - from March 15 to 23, any time that isn't already taken in the schedule)
  • Language: English

Teolemon (talk) 10:42, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 06:37, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Weaviate for Wikidata & Wikipedia - is vector search a new way for the discovery of Wikidata?[edit]

  • Session title: Weaviate for Wikidata & Wikipedia - how vector search helps in the discovery of Wikidata
  • Format: presentation + discussion (50min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Bob van Luijt
  • Short description of the session: Vector search engines like Weaviate are a new type of database technology allowing you to search through machine learning indexed data. During this session, we will look at both the open-source Wikidata and Wikipedia datasets released on top of the open-source vector search engine Weaviate and discuss how they might add value to the Wiki ecosystem.
  • Audience: Basic knowledge of search engines and infrastructure is helpful
  • Suggestions of time and date: (in EST - from March 14 or 16, any time that isn't already taken in the schedule)
  • Language: English
✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 06:46, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata Notability and Reuse[edit]

  • Session title: Wikidata Notability and Reuse
  • Format: lightning talk (5min)
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Mike Peel
  • Short description of the session: Reusers of Wikidata rely on Wikidata information continuing to be available in the long term, but this may not be guaranteed by the current notability requirements. What if the content you're using is unexpectedly deleted? This lightning talk will describe the issue with notability and propose a solution, connected to ongoing discussion about the notability requirements on-wiki. Draft slides
  • Audience: This is a bit specialist, but I'll try to briefly cover the relevant background material.
  • Suggestions of time and date: March 14 session?
  • Language: English

Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:47, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 06:59, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Maps, links, and labels[edit]

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE):

  • Session title: Maps, links, and labels
  • Format: workshop
  • Speaker(s) or facilitator(s): Minh Nguyễn
  • Short description of the session: An informal, Wikidata-themed mapathon. Participants will have the option of using expand links between OpenStreetMap and Wikidata using OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher (Q62057752), clean up labels of geographical Wikidata items using QuickStatements, or help with other OpenStreetMap-related tasks of their choosing.
  • Audience: Basic familiarity with editing either OpenStreetMap or Wikidata would be helpful.
  • Suggestions of time and date: March 19 at 17:00 UTC
  • Language: English

 – Minh Nguyễn 💬 20:36, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

✅ Scheduled! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 06:54, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Data Reuse Days: 35 sessions to discover how Wikidata's data is reused in cool projects[edit]

Hello all,

The Data Reuse Days is a series of online events that will focus on the use of Wikidata's data: during the different sessions taking place from March 14th to 24th, you will discover plenty of projects using Wikidata's data, how they gather, polish and display the data, what challenges they encounter on the way, and how they give back to the community. You can also attend presentations and workshops to learn how to create tools using Wikidata, how to use Wikidata on the other Wikimedia projects, and participate in various discussions with editors, data reusers and members of the Wikidata development team.

You can have a look at the schedule on this page or on the calendar view. Most sessions are taking place online on Jitsi, no registration or software needed. All events are free and open for everyone to join. The entire initiative, including the presentations and discussions on various channels, is covered by the Code of Conduct for technical spaces.

Each session is independent, and while the schedule can look a bit intimidating, we encourage you to look for the sessions that could be interesting for you, pick a few of them, and join spontaneously if you have time. To help you navigate the schedule, here are a few suggestions on where to start:

Note about the calendar features: you can add a single session to your personal calendar, or even embed the full schedule. Please note that we're experimenting with using Diff's calendar feature, that is still in a test and improvements phase - some bugs may appear. If you notice anything strange, let me know so I can report them to the dedicated team at WMF.

If you have any questions, or if you would like to propose a last-minute presentation (there is still space left in the lightning talks sessions, or for interactive sessions such as editathons), feel free to contact me.

We are very excited to welcome you all in this new experiment of a remote Wikidata event, and to start plenty of interesting discussions between people editing, maintaining and using Wikidata's data! Cheers, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 08:46, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Using Wikidata in Observable[edit]

If there is a new session next year, it would be great to show how the Observable platform can be use to explore Wikidata's data. I've many examples here : https://talk.observablehq.com/t/using-observable-to-explore-wikidata/6302 with a tutorial (https://observablehq.com/@pac02/an-introduction-to-observable-for-wikidata-users?collection=@pac02/wikidata) and a collection of stories (https://observablehq.com/collection/@pac02/wikidata). PAC2 (talk) 06:07, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wrap-up of the Data Reuse Days 2022[edit]

Hello all,

Thanks again to everyone who attended the Data Reuse Days and contributed to its success! We had a total of 45 sessions, with more than 60 different speakers, presenting a broad diversity of projects reusing Wikidata's data. Also a warm thank you to all speakers who presented, and people who helped take notes during the sessions!

If you missed the event, here are several ways to catch up: you can watch the recorded sessions, access the slides on Commons and the collaborative notes for all sessions. You can also access the individual links for a specific session directly from the schedule.

If you attended the event and contributed to something that could be useful for others (create or improve a tool, start a discussion, build a cool query...), please add it to the outcomes page.

As usual, I'm open to feedback, suggestions and ideas that would allow us to improve the upcoming events and try out new things. Feel free to reach out to me on my talk page or at lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de. Cheers, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 08:31, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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