Wikibase Stakeholder Group @wbstakeholders@mastodon.social
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The Wikibase Stakeholder Group commissions production and maintenance of open source extensions to Wikibase
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@despens at the learning program for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. He points towards decentralized, federated databases with culturally appropriate standards and communities, augmenting each other. #Wikibase https://rhizome.org/editorial/2022/apr/19/community-centered-knowledge-management/
@edsu @nilsreichert We have an idea about what researchers, in particular historians, want to know, and through the @wbstakeholders have some impression about what other places that use LOD hear from their users. SPARQL is simple, but if you need to connect too many nodes to get basic info (such as person→birth_event→start_time instead of person→date_of_birth) you won't see as much adoption, internally and externally. 1/2
In December Dennis Diefenbach (The QA Company) presented the tool WikibaseSync for https://linkedopendata.eu. We discussed federation & entity reuse, pros and cons of both approaches. We finished our last meeting in 2021 with big plans for 2022: workshops & new extensions. (12/12)🎆
In November we sent the letter “Institutional requirements for self-deployed Wikibase” to WMDE (https://wbstakeholder.group/projects/institutional-requirements), started tweeting & tooting☑️, released our open budget (https://wbstakeholder.group/budget), proposed a possible new extension & an option to use OAI-PMH with Wikibase. (11/12)
Our first public meeting took place at WikidataCon 2021. In our Miro board we clarified the priorities and action points for future Wikibase development work. This helped us formulate core institutional requirements for Wikibase. https://pretalx.com/wdcon21/talk/PPYGSC (10/12)
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)
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)
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 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)
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 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 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)
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)
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)
[2021 gif via Giffy]
Users of Wikibase would like to express the sameness of properties and items in their Wikibase with arbitrary URLs from any linked open data repository or established ontologies. This would enable inferencing over Wikibase. We proposed an extension for that. More news soon!
We warmly welcome our new member David Fichtmüller [1] working at BGBM in Berlin. David runs a unique Wikibase instance [2] based on hybrid installation (manual + Docker). See the details in [3].
[1] https://bgbm.org/de/personal/david-fichtmueller
[2] https://wiki.bgbm.org/bdidata
[3] https://w.wiki/4Kza
Our first project is "Institutional Requirements to Wikibase" [1]. The document covers 5 areas (Deployment, Customization, Developer Experience, Documentation & Features) which could be improved in Wikibase. We've sent it to Wikimedia DE.
[1] https://wbstakeholder.group/projects/institutional-requirements
Hello Fediverse!
The Wikibase Ecosystem grows [1].
The Wikibase Stakeholders unite [2].
We will keep you informed on our news, projects [3] and cool Wikibase extensions.
[1] https://w.wiki/4NRu
[2] https://wbstakeholder.group/members
[3] https://wbstakeholder.group/projects
- website
- wbstakeholder.group
- also on twitter
- https://twitter.com/wbstakeholders
The Wikibase Stakeholder Group commissions production and maintenance of open source extensions to Wikibase
