Wikibase4Research: Free and open source suite of tools for the storage and management of Linked Open Data (LOD) Conference Poster uri icon

abstract

  • Poster for the Wikibase4Research service presented at the 3rd Culture Community Plenary – the largest annual event of NFDI4Culture, which took place 29–31st March 2023 at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz. Wikibase and Wikidata are two related software packages from the Wikimedia family of applications. They allow the storage and management of Linked Open Data (LOD), besides featuring other common characteristics of wikis, such as collaboration and version control features. Wikidata is the public-facing instance of the software – a type of Wikipedia for structured data; it is maintained by Wikimedia Germany. Wikibase is the open source software environment built to run Wikidata. It offers a graphical user interface for editing, connected to a triplestore and a SPARQL endpoint. Crucially, Wikibase can be deployed independently from Wikidata (and Wikimedia) and can be customized to suit the needs of individual data domains and data repositories. The Wikibase4Research service provides such customised Wikibase instances on demand for the NFDI4Culture community.

publication date

  • 2023