Inproceedings,
Wikidata and Wikibase as Complementary Research Data Management Services for Cultural Heritage Data
The 3rd Wikidata Workshop, Workshop for the Scientific Wikidata Community, (2022)
Abstract
The NFDI (German National Research Data Infrastructure) consortia are associations of various institutions within a specific research field, which work together to develop common data infrastructures, guidelines, best practices and tools that conform to the principles of FAIR data 1, 2. Within the NFDI, a common question is: What is the potential of Wikidata to be used as an application for science and research 3? In this paper, we address this question by tracing current research use- cases and applications for Wikidata, its relation to standalone Wikibase instances 4, and how the two can function as complementary services to meet a range of research needs. This paper builds on lessons learned through the development of open data projects and software services within the Open Science Lab at TIB, Hannover, in the context of NFDI4Culture – the consortium including participants across the broad spectrum of the digital libraries, archives, and museums field, and the digital humanities 5, 6.
