2021 has been a big year for our group founded in the fall of 2020. During this year we refined our structure & our vision, and grew our community. Learn more about our journey from the highlights of our 2021 community meetings. (1/12)

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We started 2021 with a kick off meeting in February to decide on a group name, mission statement, organizational principles and a list of organizations to become new members! (2/12)

We started planning our public website in March. We discussed a technical report from a meeting with TIB’s development team and how they were testing automated deployment of Wikibase via Ansible. We discussed user access control and reuse of standard ontologies. (3/12)

In April we discussed our communication & collaboration tools. We agreed on Github for project planning and Loomio for decision making. @despens from Rhizome showed the neat ArtBase query service (https://query.artbase.rhizome.org) with custom prefixes, examples & much more. (4/12)

We released our website & mission statement in May. Rhizome shared their code for query service GUI (https://github.com/rhizomedotorg/artbase-query-gui). The WESO Research Group (https://www.weso.es) presented their tools for ShEx. It hugely impacts data validation, import & subsetting. (5/12)

In June Sam Alipio (Product manager, Wikibase Ecosystem) presented “Wikibase Release Strategy/Infrastucture Initiative”. Sam informed us about the release cycle, federated properties, WB Manifest, WB Pingback & new surveys. We discussed federation issues & template import. (6/12)

Since July our website is https://wbstakeholder.group. Jeff Goeke-Smith presented beautiful http://enslaved.org with many details on architecture, production & development clones, custom prefixes in RDF, data import, account & authentication integration. (7/12)

In September we learned a lot from Andra Waagmeester’s talk on classic RDF-based federation. We discussed the meaning of federation, the formatter URL/URI, WikibaseManifest and “sameAs” & “exactMatch” native support for Wikibase. The slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19koQJA1f7yvMUzJa6o0LOkE6LKwt9pmxEMsFCsHGrKE (8/12)

In October Maarten Brinkerink & Maarten Zeinstra presented the Luxembourg Shared Authority File project & EDTF datatype extension developed by Professional Wiki. OAI-PMH, EDTF extension & further developments were discussed. The project was also shown at @swibcon https://youtu.be/MDjyiYrOWJQ (9/12)