ALA Conversation Starter 24 June 2018 Leveraging Wikibase for library linked data workflows John Chapman (OCLC, Inc) Xiaoli Li (University of California, Davis) ALA Conversation Starter ALA Annual Conference 2018 #ALAAC18

Why?--Efficient, impactful workflows Today Searching Copy cataloging Original cataloging Authorities In the future Amplified searching Adding relationships Entity management Library-sourced vocabularies

What: Develop an Entity Ecosystem that facilitates: Creation and editing of new entities Connecting entities to the Web Build a community of users who can: Create/Curate data in the ecosystem Imagine/propose workflow uses Communicate easily with each other and with OCLC to iteratively improve the prototype Provide services to: Reconcile data Explore the data

Disambiguating Wiki* Wikipedia – a multilingual web-based free-content encyclopedia MediaWiki - a free and open-source wiki software Wikidata.org - a collaboratively edited structured dataset used by Wikimedia sister projects and others Wikibase - a MediaWiki extension to store and manage structured data

Wikipedia Wikidata Wikimedia what are some systems in wiki*?

Recording things people say about entities Linking entities to other entities Controlling, storing, delivering digital files and physical objects what roles do the different systems play?

Online exhibits, reviews, annotations, courseware, interpretive labels Linked Data Prototype (Wikibase), Discovery layers, Knowledge bases CONTENTdm, OPACs, institutional repositories what are the systems in library-land?

How: Wikibase advantages Open source An all-purpose data model that takes knowledge diversity, sources, and multilingual usage seriously Collaborative – can be read and edited by both humans and machines User-defined properties Version history

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