Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022/Submissions/Wikibase: an open source and free tool to build your linked open knowledge base

Contact details

• Your username: Georgina Burnett (WMDE)
• Presenters: Mohammed Sadat Abdulai (WMDE) and Georgina Burnett (WMDE)
• Email address: georgina.burnett@wikimedia.de
• Affiliation: Wikimedia Deutschland

Your topic

• Title:

Wikibase: an open-source and free tool to build your linked open knowledge base

• Language:

English

• Type:

Presentation

• Time needed:

30 minutes

• Narrate your plan in details:

Wikibase, the free and open-source software behind Wikidata, is being increasingly adopted by organizations and researchers as a platform for creating knowledge bases of linked (open) data. In this session, we want to provide a basic introduction to Wikibase and talk through a selection of case studies. Come and join us to learn how projects around the world are using Wikibase to power structured data repositories that break down knowledge silos and enable cross-disciplinary collaboration.

• Any support you need:

None needed

• How will this session be beneficial for the communities in India?:

We would love to spread awareness about Wikibase, and encourage participants to start thinking about how this free and open-source software might be useful in their own contexts.

Interested attendees

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