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Claim: Item – Property – Value

Item : Q Number
Property : P Number
Item Property Value
Marie Curie (Q7186) field of work (P101) chemistry (Q2329)
Q7186 P101 Q2329

Wikidata item basics

  • Label, description, aliases – human friendly language-specific strings
  • Statements – includes identifiers, sitelinks at bottom of an item
  • Qualifiers – adds details to claims (ie. dates, distinctions, etc)
  • Copyright - all content in Wikidata is Creative Commons CC0 (public domain)

Critical concepts

Displaying items

Querying

  • Wikidata Query Service – SPARQL interface. Explore example queries and display options. CTRL-Space auto-expands item and property names to Q/P numbers.
  • VizQuery – simple query using rules without requiring coding

Simple editing tools

Bulk editing

  • QuickStatements – use tab-delimited claims to edit
  • PetScan – powerful toolbox for Wikipedia categories and Wikidata
  • OpenRefine – open source tool for cleaning messy data, reconciliation
  • Data donation - how and why to contribute, and guidelines for institutions

Other tools

  • TABernacle – inspect and edit Wikidata interactively in table format
  • Google Spreadsheet Wikipedia Tools – query Wikipedia and Wikidata from spreadsheet cells
  • External tools – comprehensive list of all Wikidata tools
  • WikiBase – open source software extension to MediaWiki that runs Wikidata. Available as a Docker container to create a custom structured data repository

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