Getting the Most out of Wikidata: Semantic Technology Usage in Wikipedia’s Knowledge Graph

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Abstract

Wikidata is the collaboratively curated knowledge graph of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), and the core project of Wikimedia’s data management strategy. A major challenge for bringing Wikidata to its full potential was to provide reliable and powerful services for data sharing and query, and the WMF has chosen to rely on semantic technologies for this purpose. A live SPARQL endpoint, regular RDF dumps, and linked data APIs are now forming the backbone of many uses of Wikidata. We describe this influential use case and its underlying infrastructure, analyse current usage, and share our lessons learned and future plans.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Semantic Web – ISWC 2018
EditorsDenny Vrandečić, Kalina Bontcheva, Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Valentina Presutti, Irene Celino, Marta Sabou, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Elena Simperl
PublisherSpringer, Cham
Pages376–394
ISBN (electronic)978-3-030-00668-6
ISBN (print)978-3-030-00667-9
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume11137
ISSN0302-9743

External IDs

Scopus 85054857720
ORCID /0000-0002-5985-4348/work/162348850