Wikidata:WikidataCon 2017/Notes/Structured Data: How can GLAMs grab the low hanging fruit?
Title: Structured Data: How can GLAMs grab the low hanging fruit?
Speaker(s)[edit]
Name or username: Vcharles (Valentine Charles) & Wittylama (Liam Wyatt)
Contact (email, Twitter, etc.): valentine.charles@europeana.eu and liam.wyatt@gmail.com
- Useful links
Slides : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DmjSYfLQw2ngVdy7lGmKrSMWNHFd9X9PiaDKG6E9_SM/
Explore our entities at http://entity.europeana.eu/docs/ using API key apidemo (Public Alpha Release)
Example http://entity.europeana.eu/docs/#!/Discovery_API/getSuggestion_2
Then select the entity you want to explore as http://data.europeana.eu/agent/base/60386 for the ra data
https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/explore/people/60386-victor-hugo.html for the html version
Rightstatement.org http://rightsstatements.org/en/
Abstract[edit]
Europeana offers a trusted repository of cultural heritage objects on the Web. One of our missions is to facilitate the re-use of cultural heritage metadata and content by third parties. In order to do so, it is crucial for the metadata and content described in Europeana to be semantically rich, multilingual and re-usable. A better integration with Wikidata is therefore a key priority.[1]
Wikidata fulfils many of the criteria Europeana has set for its data-source selection and is now part of its own knowledge graph, the Europeana Entity Collection, for describing people, places and concepts entities. In addition, the Wikidata/Commons Structured Data project will provide Europeana with structured metadata for describing digital content. While Wikidata and Structured Data provide a way to leverage the re-use of cultural heritage metadata and content on the Web, it is crucial for the whole GLAM sector to engage with these two initiatives to make it a success.
In this workshop we will invite participants to discuss what could be done:
- for the GLAM community to better leverage the power of Wikidata to share their local resources on the Web.
- for Wikidata to enrich its existing knowledge base with GLAM data.
- for third parties like Europeana to get access to rich and multilingual descriptions.
Collaborative notes of the session[edit]
Europeana is a platform of Europe's digital heritage
53 million objects
around 50 language
building an "Entity collection"
Some data in Europeana is coming from DBpedia
Questions / Answers[edit]
Workshop questions:
How should Europeana and its partner GLAMs better integrate Wikidata?
How Wikidata can benefit from Europeana’s work?
What should be the concrete steps for participation in future projects/campaigns…?
and what about the integration with Structured Data on Commons project?
Expertise is important. Data advocates are key in the process
More communication about the links available on Wikidata side. So that GLAMs can link to it too
Need wikidata contact points for helping GLAMs in batch links upload in wikidata