Wikibase Yearly Summary 2022

by Envel Le Hir — January 1, 2022 — Wikibase

This timeline tracks what happened around Wikibase in 2022 and is frequently updated. Items are listed using the following categories:

Please contact me if something is missing!

January

2022-01-06 Wikibase 1.36 is now available, by Jeroen De Dauw.
2022-01-07 Pre-launch Announcement of Wikibase.Cloud [WikidataCon Writeup], by Addshore.
2022-01-19 Wikidata & Wikibase office hour by Wikimedia Deutschland [notes].
2022-01-24 Introducing Our Database, by Amara Thornton (Beyond Notability).
2022-01-27 Wikibase Live Session #17 [notes].

2022-03-07 NFDI InfraTalk [video]
- Wikibase and the challenges and possibilities of knowledge graphs for RDM in NFDI4Culture, by Ina Blümel, Lozana Rossenova, Paul Duchesne.
- Knowledge graphs (and Wikibase) for Research Data Management, by Harald Sack [slides].
2022-03-11 Wikibase and WBStack Working Hour #11
- Wikimedia’s Linked Open Data Strategy, by Lea Voget (WMDE) [slides, notes].
2022-03-11 Netherlands Wikibase Knowledge Group, kickoff meeting
- Overview Wikibase landscape, by Olaf Janssen (KB) [slides].
2022-03-16 Examining Wikidata and Wikibase in the context of research data management applications, by Lozana Rossenova (TIB).
2022-03-16 The Eu Knowledge Graph and WikibaseSync, how the European Commission is reusing Wikidata data, by Dennis Diefenbach [notes].
2022-03-17 Wikidata and Wikibase as complementary research services for cultural heritage data, by Paul Duchesne (TIB).
2022-03-17 European Commission goes Open Source: New Project Kohesio uses Wikimedia’s Software Wikibase, by Elisabeth Giesemann (WMDE).
2022-03-31 Wikibase Live Session #19 [notes].

2022-04-12 First public release of Minimal Viable Wikibase, by Andrea Splendiani.
2022-04-13 Semantic annotation for 3D objects: A minimum viable product (MVP) from NFDI4Culture, by Ina Blümel, Lozana Rossenova, Lucia Sohmen, Richard Vock, Zoe Schubert, Lukas Günther, Paul Duchesne [slides].
2022-04-19 Samantha Alípio, product manager for the Wikibase ecosystem, left Wikimedia Deutschland at the end of March and will be replaced by Evelien Zandbergen as product manager for Wikibase.cloud. Another product manager for Wikibase Suite is expected, with Lea Voget, head of product management at Wikimedia Deutschland, in charge in the interim. [announcement]
2022-04-19 Community-Centered Knowledge Management, by Michael Connor (Rhizome).
2022-04-20 Wikidata & Wikibase office hour by Wikimedia Deutschland [notes].
2022-04-21 Wikidata webinar [website]
- [fr] Gérer, partager et interroger grâce à Wikibase des référentiels d’autorité pour la recherche : l’exemple de data.biblissima [Manage, share and query, using Wikibase, authority repositories for research], by Régis Robineau [video, slides].
- [fr] Intégration de Wikibase dans OpenRefine et protocole de réconciliation [Wikibase integration in OpenRefine and reconciliation protocol], by Antonin Delpeuch [video].
2022-04-21 Wikibase and WBStack Working Hour #12
- Digital Scriptorium 2.0 in Wikibase.
2022-04-28 Wikibase Live Session #20 [notes].

2022-05-03 Automating Values in Wikibase, by Jeroen De Dauw [repository, video].
2022-05-06 Wikimedia Deutschland is opening a new position: Community Communications Manager for Wikibase.
2022-05-06 [nl] Automated Values extensie voor Wikibase, by Door Maarten Brinkerink.
2022-05-12 The FactGrid Cuneiform Project: A Wikibase for Cuneiform Sources, by Adam Anderson, Olaf Simons (FactGrid) [slides, video].
2022-05-12 Wikibase and WBStack Working Hour #13
- Wikibase for cultural heritage data and LIS education at the Pratt Semantic Lab, by Matt Miller, Karen Li-Lun Hwang (Semantic Lab) [slides].
2022-05-19 Paris to Download, by Bruno Belhoste (FactGrid) [video].

2022-06-20 JCDL workshop: Open Refine to Wikibase – A New Data Upload Pipeline, by Lucia Sohmen, Lozana Rossenova.

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