Envel Le HirWikibase Yearly Summary 2021
This timeline tracks what happened around Wikibase in 2021:
Articles & News
Documentation
Talks
Meetings
Staffing
Technical
January
- 2021-01-05 Wikimedia Deutschland launched the official Wikibase account on Twitter.
- 2021-01-06 ADR-16: Use GitHub Actions as secondary CI system for Wikibase.
- 2021-01-14 ADR-17: Wikibase Extension release notes content.
- 2021-01-20 Transforming Metadata into Linked Data to Improve Digital Collection Discoverability: A CONTENTdm Pilot Project, by Greta Bahnemann, Michael Carroll, Paul Clough, Mario Einaudi, Chatham Ewing, Jeff Mixter, Jason Roy, Holly Tomren, Bruce Washburn, Elliot Williams (OCLC).
- 2021-01-21 Wikidata & Wikibase office hour by Wikimedia Deutschland [notes].
February
- 2021-02-02 2021 development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase by Wikimedia Deutschland.
- 2021-02-11 Wikibase Live Session #7 [notes].
- 2021-02-11 First Wikibase and WBStack Working Hour of the Wikidata WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group [notes, video]
- NOEMI – Wikibase at the French national Library, by Pascal Lefeuvre (BnF) [slides].
- Vocabulary as Resistance and Reconciliation, by Stacy Allison-Cassin (University of Toronto) [slides].
- 2021-02-16 Between the Brackets, Episode 80: Adam Shorland, Wikidata and Wikibase tech lead at Wikimedia Deutschland, by Yaron Koren.
- 2021-02-18 Stories of the Enslaved told using Wikibase, by Elisabeth Giesemann (WMDE).
- 2021-02-23 NFDI4Culture Wikibase Workshop: Wikibase in Knowledge Graph based Research Data Management (NFDI) Projects
- Introduction to Wikibase, by Georgina Burnett and Samantha Alípio (WMDE) [slides].
- GND meets Wikibase, by Barbara Fischer (DNB) [slides].
- Introducing MuseWiki, by Johannes Hentschel (EPFL) [slides, video].
- BERD: The knowledge graph of German companies, by Renat Shigapov and Irene Schumm (Mannheim University Library) [slides].
- The Wikibase use case for Rhizome’s ArtBase, by Lozana Rossenova (LSBU & Rhizome) [slides].
- Using Wikibase as a Platform to Develop a Semantic Biodiversity Standard, by David Fichtmueller (BGBM) [slides].
- Die Plattform MaterialDigital, by Philipp von Hartrott (Fraunhofer IWM) [slides].
- Documenting materials provenance and testing with Wikibase, by Philipp von Hartrott (Fraunhofer IWM) [slides].
March
- 2021-03-01 Data Partnerships at Wikimedia Deutschland, by Georgina Burnett (WMDE).
- 2021-03-05 First public release of RaiseWikibase, by Mannheim University Library.
- 2021-03-18 ENDORSE, the European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics [documents]
- 2021-03-19 [de] Große Resonanz auf ersten NFDI-weiten Wikibase-Workshop am 23. Februar 2021 [Great response to the first NFDI Wikibase workshop on February 23, 2021], by Lucia Sohmen (TIB).
- 2021-03-23 Imagine an ecosystem of semantic data, by Barbara Fischer (DNB) at Sharing is Caring 2021 [video].
- 2021-03-25 Wikibase Live Session #8 [notes].
- 2021-03-26 Wikibase and WBStack Working Hour #2
April
- 2021-04-09 [nl] Start je eigen Wikidata! Een introductie op Wikibase [Start your own Wikidata! An introduction to Wikibase], by Sjors de Valk.
- 2021-04-14 Wikibase: the Software for Open Data projects, by Samantha Alípio, Mohammed Sadat Abdulai, Georgina Burnett, Dan Shick (WMDE).
- 2021-04-21 Extended Date Time Format for Wikibase, by Jeroen De Dauw (Professional.Wiki) [repository, video].
- 2021-04-26 The ArtBase Relaunches: Welcome to Linked Open Data, by Rhizome.
- 2021-04-28 Wikidata & Wikibase office hour by Wikimedia Deutschland [notes].
- 2021-04-29 WBStack Infrastructure, by Addshore.
- 2021-04-29 A short history of the Wikibase Community User Group, by Envel Le Hir.
- 2021-04-29 Wikibase Live Session #9 [notes].
- 2021-04-30 Wikibase and WBStack Working Hour #3
May
- 2021-05-03 WBStack setting changes, Federated properties, Wikidata entity mapping & more, by Addshore.
- 2021-05-07 Wikibase Spring Release is available.
- 2021-05-22 Wikibase, starting from scratch, by Luca Mauri at Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 [slides, video].
- 2021-05-23 [es] PhiloBiblon y el mundo wiki. Propuesta de una colaboración [PhiloBiblon and the wiki world. Proposal for a collaboration], by Charles Faulhaber (Berkeley).
- 2021-05-24 Tech Lead Digest – Q1 2021, by Addshore.
- 2021-05-27 Wikibase Live Session #10 [notes].
- 2021-05-27 Wikibase and WBStack Working Hour #4 [notes]
- History, Present & Future of WBStack & WBaas, by Adam Shorland (WMDE) [slides, video].
- Exploring WBStack at Columbia University Libraries, by Timothy Ryan Mendenhall (Columbia University Libraries) [slides].
June
- 2021-06-03 → 2021-06-10 [fr] Wiki, data et GLAM 2021
- Wikidata, Wikibases, Mix’n’match, by Nicolas Vigneron [slides].
- Le projet FNE et les enjeux des alignements [The FNE project and matching challenges], by Anila Angjeli (BnF), Benjamin Bober (ABES) [slides].
- Le projet Wikibase Résistants aux Archives de l’État en Belgique [The Wikibase Resistants project at the State Archives in Belgium], by Anne Chardonnens [slides].
- 2021-06-07 → 2021-06-11 [de] GNDCon
- Die Welt ist klein und man trifft sich immer zweimal…, by Harald Sack [slides (46-47)].
- GND meets Wikibase: ein Zweitwohnsitz und eine Dokumentationsplattform für die GND, by Sarah Hartmann, Jürgen Kett, Mathias Manecke (DNB).
- The Wikidata and Wikibase Library Community, by Samantha Alípio, Georgina Burnett, Lydia Pintscher (WMDE).
- 2021-06-09 Second online meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group [notes].
- 2021-06-15 IFLA signs the WikiLibrary Manifesto.
- 2021-06-21 ADR-19: Add source information to Property IDs for Federated Properties v2.
- 2021-06-23 Wikibase Knowledge Graphs for Data Management & Data Science, by Renat Shigapov (Mannheim University Library), as part of Data Literacy Snacks 2021 [slides].
- 2021-06-24 Wikibase Live Session #11 [notes].
- 2021-06-26 Tech Lead Digest – Q2 2021, by Addshore.
- 2021-06-29 GNDCon: Meeting of the growing community of Wikibase users, by Georgina Burnett, Bayan Hilles (WMDE).
- 2021-06-30 ADR-20: Keep Wikibase master compatible with Mediawiki Core master.
July
- 2021-07-07 ADR-21: Make all Federated Properties-relevant services source and type dispatching.
- 2021-07-19 What happens in Wikibase when you make a new Item?, by Addshore.
- 2021-07-19 → 2021-07-23 2021 LD4 Conference on Linked Data
- Wikibase: Free, Flexible and Collaborative Linked Data, by Georgina Burnett, Bayan Hilles [video].
- Rune inscriptions in Wikidata / Wikibase, by Magnus Sälgö [video].
- Wikibase and Artists Archives: Connecting “Experiments in Art and Technology” Data from the Rauschenberg Archives, by Miranda Siler [poster].
- 2021-07-20 ADR-22: Create a Property ID interface.
- 2021-07-22 Wikibase and WBStack Working Hour #5.
- 2021-07-28 Wikidata & Wikibase office hour by Wikimedia Deutschland [notes].
- 2021-07-29 2nd Workshop on Wikibase in Knowledge Graph based Research Data Management (NFDI) Projects
- RaiseWikibase, by Renat Shigapov (Mannheim University Library) [slides].
- GND meets Wikibase, by Thomas Bauer (DNB).
- The ArtBase Wikibase and updated query service, by Dragan Espenschied (Rhizome).
- 2021-07-29 Wikibase Live Session #12 [notes].
- 2021-07-31 Tech Lead Digest – July 2021, by Addshore.
August
- 2021-08-26 Wikibase Live Session #13 [notes].
- 2021-08-27 Wikibase and WBStack Working Hour #6 [notes, video]
September
- 2021-09-12 Restrict who can create items and properties, by Jeroen De Dauw.
- 2021-09-17 Wikibase and WBStack Working Hour #7 [video, audio]
- Building Enslaved.org in Wikibase, by Seila Gonzalez Estrecha, Dean Rehberger (MSU).
- 2021-09-17 Deleting all Wikibase Items and/or Properties, by Jeroen De Dauw.
- 2021-09-18 Tech Lead Digest – August 2021, by Addshore.
- 2021-09-30 Wikibase Live Session #14 [notes].
October
- 2021-10-20 Wikidata & Wikibase office hour by Wikimedia Deutschland [notes].
- 2021-10-26 Wikibase and WBStack Working Hour #8
- Creating a WBStack Instance for alternative LCSH Labels: data modeling.
- 2021-10-29 → 2021-10-31 WikidataCon 2021
- Main track:
- What happened and what’s coming around Wikidata and Wikibase, by Lydia Pintscher, Sam Alipio [notes].
- Wikibase track:
- Wikibase as an infrastructure for Knowledge Graphs: The EU Knowledge Graph, by Dennis Diefenbach [notes, video].
- LOD-ifying bibliographical and lexical data using wikibase, by David Lindemann [slides, video, notes].
- How to open Authority Control system – The GND & Wikibase, by Thomas Bauer, Barbara Fischer [slides, notes, video].
- Wikibase as RDM infrastructure within NFDI4Culture, by Ina Blümel, Harald Sack, Lucia Sohmen [slides 1, slides 2, notes, video].
- ArtBase: the latest updates on Rhizome’s self-hosted Wikibase, by Dragan Espenschied [slides, notes, video].
- De Jonge Wiki, by Max Kristen, Frieder Leipold [notes, video].
- Using Wikibase to build The Digital Archive of Artists’ Books (DAAP), by Ami Clarke, Stuart Prior, Frances Whorrall-Campbell [notes, video].
- Wikibase: Basecamp for Semantic Lab’s Wiki Journey, by Jessika Davis [slides, notes, video].
- Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki: why and how, by Luca Mauri [slides, notes, video].
- Open meeting of the Wikibase Stakeholder Group and interactive roadmapping session, by Dragan Espenschied [notes, video].
- Demo of upload process for a wikibase instance, by Alexander Derveaux [notes, video].
- Using OpenRefine with arbitrary Wikibase instances, by Lozana Rossenova, Lucia Sohmen [slides, notes, video].
- Brief Intro To Our Wikibase Extensions, by Jeroen De Dauw [slides, notes, video].
- Pre-launch Announcement and Preview of Wikibase.Cloud, by Sam Alipio, Adam Shorland [slides, notes, video].
- How can Wikimedia Deutschland enable an ecosystem of developers around Wikibase?, by Sam Alipio, Tom Arrow [slides, notes, video].
- eViterbo: Implementing an open platform in academia, by Alice Faria [slides, notes, video].
- A Wikibase for what?” – diverse users at the edge of the graph, by Laurence “GreenReaper” Parry [slides, notes, video].
- Wikibase Community User Group meeting and track roundup, by Laurence “GreenReaper” Parry, Lozana Rossenova [report, notes, video].
- WikiCite track:
- Wikibase for Citations on Wikipedia, by James Hare [notes, video].
- Main track:
November
- 2021-11-05 TIB at WikidataCon: Part 1, by Lozana Rossenova (TIB).
- 2021-11-05 TIB at WikidataCon: Part 2, by Lozana Rossenova, Lucia Sohmen, Ina Blümel (TIB).
- 2021-11-11 The Wikibase Stakeholder Group launched their official account on Twitter.
- 2021-11-15 Wikibase and WBStack Working Hour #9
- Creating a WBStack Instance for alternative LCSH Labels: property creation.
- 2021-11-25 Wikibase Live Session #15 [notes].
- 2021-11-29 → 2021-12-03 Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB21)
December
- 2021-12-02 Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase, by Ross Spencer [video].
- 2021-12-06 Tech Lead Digest – Q3/4 2021, by Addshore.
- 2021-12-07 WBStack in 2021 and the future, by Addshore.
- 2021-12-07 First release of the Wikibase Directory, by James Hare [submit form].
- 2021-12-16 Wikibase and WBStack Working Hour #10
- Creating a WBStack Instance for alternative LCSH Labels: item creation.
- 2021-12-21 Year review of the Wikibase Stakeholder Group.
- 2021-12-30 Wikibase Live Session #16 [notes, video].
Wikibase Yearly Summary 2020 ← See also → Wikibase Yearly Summary 2022
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