Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledge Base
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Denny Vrandečić, Markus Krötzsch
Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledge Base
Abstract. Unnoticed by most of its readers, Wikipedia is currently undergoing dramatic changes, as its sister project Wikidata introduces a new multilingual ‘Wikipedia for data’ to manage the factual information of the popular online encyclopedia. With Wikipedia’s data becoming cleaned and integrated in a single location, opportunities arise for many new applications.
In this article, we provide an extended overview of Wikidata, including its essential design choices and data model. Based on up-to-date statistics, we discuss the project's development so far and outline interesting application areas for this new resource.
Published at CACM, to appear (Journal paper)
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Citation details
- Denny Vrandečić, Markus Krötzsch. Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledge Base. In Communications of the ACM (to appear). ACM 2014.
author = {Denny Vrande\v{c}i\'{c} and Markus Kr\"{o}tzsch},
title = {Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledge Base},
journal = {Commun. ACM},
year = {2014},
note = {to appear}
}
Remarks
As of March 2014, this is the main reference on Wikidata, thus finally answering the question "What to cite on Wikidata?" that many people have been asking for some time. With the increasing relevance of the project, many more research papers about Wikidata should be forthcoming.
