Wikipedia:Meetup/WikiData Presentation at Berkman Center

Talk Details
Abstract

Wikidata is a new Wikimedia project that will provide an infrastructure to store and access structured data for use in Wikipedia articles, similar to the way that Wikimedia Commons stores and provides public access to multimedia files today. To achieve this, Wikidata will become a knowledge base that anyone can edit. The talk will present the Wikidata data model and user interface design, the current state of the project, and aims to induce discussions on the topic of collaboration for collecting structured data by a broad and open audience: what do we need to do in order to provide a project that allows everyone to collect the sum of human knowledge in a structured way?

About the speaker

Denny Vrandečić is project director of Wikidata with Wikimedia Deutschland, and has previously been at the AIFB group at KIT Karlsruhe, Germany, and at ISI at USC, Los Angeles, CA. He is co-inventor of Semantic MediaWiki, used by NASA, the CIA, Google, and many others, has advised Metaweb on their RDF export, and is founding admin of the Croatian Wikipedia.

Host
 * Hosted by the Cooperation Group at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. More details on their wiki.
 * Please also check out the WIkimedia New England meetup group. See WP:BOSTON for more upcoming events as well as links to our email list and meetup.com group.

Links of Interest
 * Wikidata
 * The Berkman Center
 * Wikimedia Germany

Location

 * 23 Everett Street, Second Floor
 * Cambridge, MA 02138
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Attending
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Confirmed Attendees

 * GabrielF (talk)
 * Darouet (talk)
 * Benjamin Mako Hill (talk)

Possible Attendees

 * Because you scheduled the event when normal people have work. I will try to attend.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  17:46, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
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