Wikidata Basics

Speaker: Kat Koziar (UC Riverside) and Leigh Phan (UCLA)

Have you heard of linked data or Wikidata and want to know what they are, and how you can use them? Have you ever wondered why there are so many wiki*thing*.org websites, and how they're interconnected? This is the workshop for you!

Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that provides structured, linked data not just for Wikipedia, but to anyone. It is used globally by many sites and services.

In this workshop we will describe what Wikidata is and used for; how it's connected to Wikimedia projects (such as Wikipedia); how it's leveraged by many other sites and services as a point of open data; and more importantly, an overview of how you can edit and use it.

Register for this workshop and view the full schedule of UC Love Data Week events on the UC Love Data Week website(opens in a new tab).