WikiFAIR/Linking

Linking resources to Wikidata is a well established process. There are multiple ways to archive this setup, and special possibilities when running a MediaWiki.

Technical possibilites

via existing Properties: P973: described by url
via an Identifier Property: propose an identifier property here

Linking a seperate Website/Database

Connect your research database to Wikidata, through matching Wikidata items to entries in your database and and adding links to one or both. This link could be modeled through specific Wikidata statements, e.g. by using P973: described by url or proposing a project related property.

Adding a property allows for more long term quality control through tools like the constraint report system, or pregenerated queries for quality violations.

Integration Results:

Improved visibility of the original database
Ability to query your own data with the additional data from Wikidata

Example

Deckenmalerei.eu links most entries to Wikidata

Linking MediaWiki instances

Especially interesting are projects that use MediaWiki as their base software, since it allows for interesting crossovers. MediaWiki can be used as a simple text and media base for people to edit, while more complex templates pull data out of Wikidata to display in local infoboxes.

Integration Results:

Easy to use interface for editing multimedia content with text and images
Possibility to use the extensive Wikipedia template ecosystem
Showing live metadata from Wikidata in infoboxes using Wikibase Client

Example

WIP

Displaying data from linked entities

WIP
LinkedWiki Extension

Linking Wikibases

Alternatively, following the Vision of a Linked Open Data future, Wikibase could be run as a completely independent instance, or hosted on Wikibase Cloud, while federating with Wikidata via the related property.

Integration Results:

Use a semantic database, but with complete control over every aspect
Model data in different ways than Wikidata

Example

Factgrid has a property in Wikidata while being completely independent of Wikimedia as a whole. Remove NA could serve as a great example. They are also linked via a property.