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 LD4 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 [notes]
- 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 LD4 Wikibase 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 LD4 Wikibase 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, video].
2022-05-18 Netherlands Wikibase Knowledge Group, meeting #2 [notes]
- Wikibase at the The Hague Kunstmuseum, by Hanno Lans, Vincent de Keijzer [slides].
- LUDAP project in Luxemburg, by Maarten Zeinstra, Maarten Brinkerink [slides].
- Update Wikibase developments March-April-May 2022, by Olaf Janssen [slides].
2022-05-19 Paris to Download, by Bruno Belhoste (FactGrid) [video].
2022-05-30 Building the Beyond Notability Knowledge Base: 4 reasons why we chose Wikibase, by James Baker.

2022-06-03 Wikibase.cloud: a new project at Wikimedia Deutschland, by Georgina Burnett, Dan Shick.
2022-06-20 JCDL workshop: Open Refine to Wikibase – A New Data Upload Pipeline, by Lucia Sohmen, Lozana Rossenova.
2022-06-30 LD4 Wikibase Working Hour #14
- GND meets Wikibase, by Barbara K. Fischer (DNB) [slides, video].
2022-06-30 Wikibase Live Session #21 [notes].

2022-07-05 An automated Wikibase deployment pipeline for research data management, by Paul Duchesne.
2022-07-11 LD4 Wikibase Working Hour #15
- Tracking alternate labels for subject headings with Wikibase, by Diane Shaw, Jackie Shieh, Jim Hahn, Alexander Whelan, Brian Luna Lucero, Esther Jackson, Melanie Wacker, Timothy Ryan Mendenhall, Honor Moody, Christine Fernsebner Eslao [slides, video].
2022-07-22 Netherlands Wikibase Knowledge Group, meeting #3 [notes]
- Wikibase.cloud Unboxing Experience of the KB, national library of The Netherlands, by Olaf Janssen [slides].
- Update Wikibase developments May-June-July 2022, by Olaf Janssen [slides].
- Relation between OpenRefine and Wikibase + development plans for July-December 2022, by Sandra Fauconnier [slides].
2022-07-27 Wikidata & Wikibase office hour by Wikimedia Deutschland [notes].

2022-08-12 When Quechua meets Wikibase, by Elwin Huaman, at Wikimania 2022 [video].
2022-08-15 Matching Food Items with FoodOn Identifiers in a Knowledge Base, by Kat Thornton, Kenneth Seals-Nutt, Mika Matsuzaki, at JOWO 2022 (Joint Ontology WOrkshops) — IFOW 2022 (Integrated Food Ontology Workshop) [slides].

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