Recent Wikibase developments December 2022 – March 2023, Netherlands Wikibase Knowlegde Group, 15-03-2023
Creators: name: Janssen, Olaf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Wikibase
Wikibase.cloud
Netherlands Wikibase Knowlegde Group
OpenRefine
Olaf Janssen
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
KB, national library of the Netherlands

description: Overview of some developments in the Wikibase ecosystem in the period December 2022-March 2023. This update was part of the 5th meeting of the Netherlands Wikibase Knowledge Group on 15 March 2023. ====== CONTENTS ================== 1. Wikibase.cloud New logo: Announcement: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/CRYGBXBUVYZBMHFUYSS4QAHGQIZRNKHT/ File on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikibase.cloud#/media/File:Wikibase_Cloud_Logo.svg Wikibase.cloud user survey Survey forms (now closed): https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Wikibase.cloud-User-Research-11-22/ Survey results, Feb 2023: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibase_Cloud_UX_Research.pdf Share your experiences with WMDE: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/IUDZ4HAGEMDI5OLTUUNZWZDYYBFL36LU/ + https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/Y6UCBEPVJHDABOYME4AJAGRFD6UFLTHR/ Wikibase.cloud project updates: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase/Wikibase.cloud Call for participation – Blog series on Wikibase Community: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibaseug@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/PA4ETU6M5CLHBR6ENQBRZE4DQU5JBYG5/ Wikibase Suite User Survey now open: https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Wikibase_Suite-User-Research-02-23/ More Wikibase.cloud updates Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/FgqAnxNQYOeAKmyZTIId9g Mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.org/latest 2. OpenRefine &amp; Wikibase Nothing new worth reporting 3. New/cool WB instances Wikibase @KB (intern) announcement: https://twitter.com/ecritures/status/1633864604945203203 EURhisFIRM Wikibase: http://data.eurhisfirm.eu/wiki/Main_Page (via https://github.com/shigapov/wikibase-knowledge-graphs/blob/main/README.md#awesome-wikibase-instances) Project site: https://eurhisfirm.eu/ Gitlab: https://gitlab.huma-num.fr/eurhisfirm SPARQL query “Shell” et al. in EURhisFIRM: http://data.eurhisfirm.eu/w/index.php?search=shell&amp;title=Special%3ASearch&amp;profile=default&amp;fulltext=1 Corporatiethesaurus (KB LOD store) http://data.bibliotheken.nl/doc/dataset/corps SPARQL query “Shell” et al. in KB LOD-store: http://data.bibliotheken.nl/sparql?default-graph-uri=&amp;query=SELECT+*+WHERE+%7B%0D%0A%3FcorpID+schema%3AmainEntityOfPage%2Fschema%3AisPartOf+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdata.bibliotheken.nl%2Fid%2Fdataset%2Fcorps%3E+.%0D%0A%3FcorpID+schema%3Aname+%3Fcorp+.%0D%0AFILTER%28regex%28%3Fcorp%2C+%27Shell%27%2C+%27i%27%29%29%0D%0A%7D+LIMIT+1000&amp;format=text%2Fhtml&amp;timeout=0&amp;debug=on&amp;run=+Run+Query+ 4. Tech Wikibase Suite 1.38 release: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibaseug@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/KFPAI4S3S24IPAXTSF3AKYGSFUOKTM34/ + https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/refs/heads/REL1_38/RELEASE-NOTES-1.38 New extension: Wikibase Export: https://professional.wiki/en/news/wikibase-export-released + https://professional.wiki/en/extension/wikibase-export + https://export.wikibase.wiki/wiki/Main_Page + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBdzDcYChOI VanderBot and Wikibase Via https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikibase_Working_Hours The VanderBot Python application allows rapid uploads of tabular data to a Wikibase instance. <em>Using the W3C Generating RDF from Tabular Data on the Web recommendation to manage small Wikidata datasets</em>, Steven J. Baskauf and Jessica K. Baskauf: https://doi.org/10.3233/SW-210443 + https://content.iospress.com/download/semantic-web/sw210443?id=semantic-web%2Fsw210443 <em>Generating RDF from Tabular Data on the Web</em>, W3C Recommendation 17 December 2015: https://www.w3.org/TR/csv2rdf/ Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VH47ej63-sEYNCD8DL25SeerW8Y9f7di/view Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/149kCjAfIniwWzkSDdocOjxvhMUJ39H01/view Manual: https://heardlibrary.github.io/digital-scholarship/lod/wikibase/load/ Github: https://github.com/HeardLibrary/linked-data/tree/master/vanderbot 5. Workshops etc. Series of 3 European level Wikidata &amp; Wikibase workshops by SEMIC Support Centre (https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/semic-support-centre) 1st workshop Jan 23 : https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/semic-support-centre/event/first-workshop-wikidata-and-wikibase Slides: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/event/attachment/2023-01/Wikidata%20and%20Wikibase%20complete%20slides.pdf Minutes: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/event/attachment/2023-01/Meeting%20Minutes_%20Webinar%20WikiData%20and%20WikiBase.pdf Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up-XH8KSfzI 2nd workshop Feb 23: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/semic-support-centre/event/second-workshop-wikidata-and-wikibase 3rd workshop Mrch 23: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/semic-support-centre/event/third-workshop-wikidata-and-wikibase Wikimedia hackathon CfP: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Program + https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/6280/ + https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T331614 Wikimania 2023 CfP: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/28/be-part-of-the-wikimania-2023-program/ + https://pretalx.com/wm2023/cfp + https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Wikimania Wikibase Lexical Data Workshop CfP: https://wikibase-lex.sciencesconf.org/ 6. WBSG WBSG website: https://wbstakeholder.group/ WBSG monthly meetings: https://notepad.rhizome.org/wikibase-stakeholder-meetings# Dec 22: https://notepad.rhizome.org/wbsg-2022-12-08# Jan 23: https://notepad.rhizome.org/wbsg-2023-01-12# Feb 23: https://notepad.rhizome.org/wbsg-2023-02-02# March 23: https://notepad.rhizome.org/wbsg-2023-03-09# WBSG recent discussions on Loomio: https://loomio.rhizome.org/wbsg/