Introducing Wikidata to the Linked Data Web
Fredo Erxleben, Michael Günther, Markus Krötzsch, Julian Mendez, Denny Vrandečić
Introducing Wikidata to the Linked Data Web
Abstract. Wikidata is the central data management platform of Wikipedia.
By the efforts of thousands of volunteers, the project has produced a
large, open knowledge base with many interesting applications.
The data is highly interlinked and connected to many other datasets, but it is also very
rich, complex, and not available in RDF. To address this issue, we introduce new
RDF exports that connect Wikidata to the Linked Data Web. We explain the
data model of Wikidata and discuss its encoding in RDF. Moreover, we introduce
several partial exports that provide more selective or simplified views on the
data. This includes a class hierarchy and several other types of ontological
axioms that we extract from the site. All datasets we discuss here are freely
available online and updated regularly.
Published at ISWC 2014 (Conference paper)
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Citation details
- Fredo Erxleben, Michael Günther, Markus Krötzsch, Julian Mendez, Denny Vrandečić. Introducing Wikidata to the Linked Data Web. In Proceedings of the 13th International Semantic Web Conference, pp. 50–65. SpringerProperty "Publisher" has a restricted application area and cannot be used as annotation property by a user. 2014.
author = {Fredo Erxleben and Michael G\"unther and
Markus Kr{\"o}tzsch and Julian Mendez and
Denny Vrande\v{c}i\'{c}},
title = {Introducing {Wikidata} to the Linked Data Web},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th International Semantic
Web Conference (ISWC'14)},
editor = {Peter Mika and Tania Tudorache and
Abraham Bernstein and Chris Welty and
Craig A. Knoblock and Denny Vrande\v{c}i\'{c}
and Paul T. Groth and Natasha F. Noy and
Krzysztof Janowicz and Carole A. Goble},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {LNCS},
volume = {8796},
year = {2014},
pages = {50--65}
}
Remarks
This paper introduces the RDF exports of Wikidata. The software used to generate the exports is Wikidata Toolkit.
The main reference for Wikidata is Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledge Base. The above is a technical report that has not been published at an official venue yet.
