Wikibase Community User Group/Meetings/2020-12-17/Notes
Archived notes from Etherpad of the 2020-12-17 meeting.
Schedule edit
- 16:00 UTC, 1 hour, Thursday 17th December 2020
- Online meeting on Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/nky-nwdx-tuf
- Join by phone: https://meet.google.com/tel/nky-nwdx-tuf?pin=4267848269474&hs=1
Agenda edit
- Share out anything exciting or new that's been happening with your Wikibase instance
- What have you been up to
- What has been working well, What has been challenging for you
- Wikibase discussion platforms poll
Participants (who is here) edit
- Mohammed (WMDE)
- Diane Shaw (Smithsonian)
- Magnus Sälgö (salgo60)
- Giovanni Bergamin (AIB)
- Jarmo Saarikko (NatLibFi)
- Okko Vainonen (Nat[ional]Lib[rary of]Fi[nland])
- Jeyes Unterwegs
Questions edit
a) Federation status? b) Federation import properties from another Wikibase or schema also import constraints from another Wikibase c) Is this page updated https://wikiba.se/fed/
Lydia had a talk on Semantic ? available on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2J4oSE7krg mentioned federation
- Python script that makes use of PyWikiBot? https://github.com/SemanticLab/data-2-wikibase/blob/master/add_properties.py
- This blog post includes an example for importing a CSV file with new properties: https://medium.com/@thisismattmiller/wikibase-for-research-infrastructure-part-1-d3f640dfad34
Wikimedia Sweden is looking into roundtripping and using Open Refine is a rumour more information wanted
- Lozana talked about quite a few institutions needing to do more with federation
- Goal is to work toward SPARQL endpoint
- User friendly dropdown and you can pick the Wikibase that you'd like to federate across
- Mohammed asks what big dreams people have about Federation in 2021
- Move properties within Wikibase, as one of the requests
- Federating the maintainer of the information so that everyone doesn't have to ... [missed part]
- if you want to take existing data and refine it [missed part]
- To have a ready made setup for wikibase that include the CIDOC CRM from the beginning
- Lozana disagrees: I wouldn't call that federation unless you intent to change the data model
- Q: if the data model keeps changing, synchronising between [missed part] is federation
- SPARQL endpoint [missed part]
- Synching data the idea of keeping track across databases so you’ll get notifications t (level of federation beyond synching between wikibases)
- Jarmo mentioned the gnd keeping their original wikibase [missed part]
- Some kind of expert bot [missed part] bring out data from wikibase to differnt format
- Jarmo: Asks if its possible to export data to different formats; eg. bibliographical data to be put out in marc format or some other format
- Jeyes I have took a brief look on pywikibot, but I had not noticed that.
- Tried this Python script that makes use of PyWikiBot? https://github.com/SemanticLab/data-2-wikibase/blob/master/add_properties.py
- Discusses different output formats: marc
- Lozana to get in touch with Mohammed and Sam to lay out some plans for development
- Smithsonian is also interested in SPARQL for Wikibase
- Otto asks whether this page is up to date: https://wikiba.se/fed/
- Dragan proposed this tool: https://www.question2answer.org/
- This for example is based on question2answer: https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/
- Lydia's presentation at SMWCon:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2J4oSE7krg
- Semantic Mediawiki used as an client interface and Wikibase as the backend on the same host: presentation by lucamauri.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8yJmS2p1Ss
- Connecting Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki" by Jeroen de Dauw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygvDSlp6cSk
- Johanes asks: about tabula data used in Wikibase...convert the table into item numbers and columsn so its possible to query this triples just as a table
- Ask whether other people are interested in something like this
- Lozana: this might be moving away from the idea of linked data