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


Fred Farr Forum October 11, 2018 11:20 - 11:40

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Stanislav Malyshev, Markus Krötzsch, Larry Gonzalez, Julius Gonsior and Adrian Bielefeldt.  

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, explain technical details on the underlying infrastructure, analyse current usage, and share some of the lessons we learned and future plans.

Keywords:  SPARQL endpoint;  Linked Open Data;  Knowledge Graph;  Reliability;  Applications

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