© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM Wikidata – Social Media meets Open Data Work Session on the Communication of Statistics, 27 – 29 June 2012, Geneva
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 2 A game changer for Wikipedia and beyond
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 3 Agenda Wikidata – Social Media meets Open Data What is Wikidata? What does Wikidata? Why is it „social“? Conclusion: Why should we use it?
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 4 What is Wikidata?
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 5 What is Wikidata? Structured data One common database Multilingual Machine-readable Collaboratively edited
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 6 One common database 280 editions of Wikipedia Countless websites outside Wikipedia
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 7 What does Wikidata?
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 8 Phase 1: Interwiki links
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 9 Wikidata “Switzerland” Schweiz (DE) Suisse (FR) Svizzera (IT) Switzerlan d (EN)
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 10 Phase 2: Infoboxes
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 11 Germany Population: 81.8 Mill. WikidataWikipedia: Infoboxes Deutschland (DE) Bevölkerung: 81,8 Mill. Allemagne (FR) Population: 81,8 Mill. Population: 81.8 Mill.
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 12 Wikidata Germany Population: 82.4 Mill. Wikipedia: Infoboxes Deutschland (DE) Bevölkerung: 81,8 Mill. Allemagne (FR) Population: 81,8 Mill.
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 13 Wikidata Germany Population: 82.4 Mill. Wikipedia: Infoboxes Deutschland (DE) Bevölkerung: 82,4 Mill. Allemagne (FR) Population: 82,4 Mill.
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 14 Phase 3: Lists
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 15 Wikidata Germany Wikipedia: List GDP (millions of US$) France Japan US: China: GDP: GDP: GDP: Germany: France: Japan: GDP: GDP: GDP:
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 16 Wikidata Germany GDP: Wikipedia: List GDP (millions of US$) France GDP: Japan GDP: Germany: France: Japan: US: China:
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 17 Wikidata Germany GDP: Wikipedia: List GDP (millions of US$) France GDP: Japan GDP: Germany: France: Japan: US: China:
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 18 Open Data? Of course! But why is it “social”?
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 19 The community decides whether data is useful or not!
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 20 Why should we use it?
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 21 Conclusion: Why should we use it? Dissemination of data Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Big step towards the semantic web
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM slide 22 Be part of it from the beginning!
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany, section PR 2011 Census, CRM Thank you very much for your attention! Christoph Bergmann Daniela Schuengel
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