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Wikidata and research

Wikidata and research is a conference taking place at the University of Florence, 5-6 June 2025.

Wikidata and research, 5-6 June 2025


The conference is organised by a scientific committee in collaboration with the University of Florence and Wikimedia Italia. To attend, please fill the registration form in English or in Italian.

Scholarships Application open until the end of April

Introduction

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The conference Wikidata and Research wants to explore and trigger the synergies between academia and the Wikimedia projects, with a specific focus on open data, collaborative open research infrastructures and research assessment.

Wikidata and Research

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Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org is a free open multidisciplinary and multilingual knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. It is the central storage of structured data for the Wikimedia projects (including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource), and it is a research infrastructure, providing and hosting open data, and supporting new analysis and visualisation.

With more than 113 million items Wikidata has become a hub of the Linked Data Cloud that connects open datasets shared by volunteers, researches, cultural and public institutions from all over the world. It also provides support to many other sites and services beyond the Wikimedia projects. The content of Wikidata is available under the open tool Creative Commons Zero - CC0, can be exported using standard formats and can be interlinked to other open datasets on the linked data web.

All these features make Wikidata a key infrastructure for scientific research and for the implementation of Open Science. Scientific research can contribute to the publication of open data but can also benefit from the use of open data published in Wikidata and the collaboration with its communities. The comparison between datasets produced by research projects, archives, libraries and museums and the LOD Cloud can bring out recurrences, new relationships and infer new knowledge (data mining and evidence based approach). It is also a way to improve data quality and enrich the datasets with links to other databases, in an interdisciplinary perspective. Scholars can collaborate with volunteers, join the Wikidata communities and receive support from other active contributors, opening research to new collaborations and confrontation, developing new strategies and tools, and sharing methodologies at an interdisciplinary and international level.

Wikibase is the open source software used by Wikidata. Everyone can create their own Wikibase instance downloading directly Wikibase or, since 2022, using the platform Wikibase Cloud <https://www.wikibase.cloud/>, which allows to create up to six Wikibase instances per account; these instances are hosted on the servers of Wikimedia Deutschland.

Key topics

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The conference’s themes include but are not limited to:

  • Methods and data management. Research strategies and Data Management Plans that use Wikidata and/or other Wikibase instances as key platforms for research data.
  • Sharing datasets. Case studies related to importing datasets (including datasets related to GLAMs and education) to Wikidata and/or other Wikibase instances, dealing with the methods and the tools used, the challenges of the process and the potentialities in terms of data analysis and reuse.
  • Reuse of data. Case studies in any discipline (environmental data, medical data, heritage, archival and bibliographic data, biographical datasets...), completed or still ongoing, involving the use of Wikidata and/or other Wikibase instances to collect, extract, relate, and discover data.
  • Data visualisations and tools. Visualizations and tools based on Wikidata and/or other Wikibase instances created or used by institutions, researchers and research projects.
  • Research assessment. Altmetrics based on Wikidata to evaluate scientific research and research impact.
  • Projects and proposals. Projects and proposals focusing on research and Wikidata and/or other Wikibase instances.
  • Overviews. Analysis of the use of Wikidata in research related to specific disciplinary areas or topics.

Selected bibliography

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  • Mora-Cantallops, Marçal, Salvador SĂĄnchez-Alonso, and Elena GarcĂ­a-Barriocanal. 2019. «A Systematic Literature Review on Wikidata». Data Technologies and Applications 53 (3): 250–68. https://doi.org/10.1108/DTA-12-2018-0110.
  • Shenoy, Kartik, Filip Ilievski, Daniel Garijo, Daniel Schwabe, and Pedro Szekely. 2022. «A Study of the Quality of Wikidata». Journal of Web Semantics 72:100679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2021.100679.
  • Turki, Houcemeddine, Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb, Mohamed Ben Aouicha, Lane Rasberry, and Daniel Mietchen. 2024. «Ten Years of Wikidata: A Bibliometric Study». In Proceedings of the Wikidata Workshop 2023 co-located with 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023). Athens: CEUR. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3640/paper13.pdf.
  • Vrandečić, Denny, Lydia Pintscher, and Markus Krötzsch. 2023. «Wikidata: The Making Of». In Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 615–24. Austin TX USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3543873.3585579.
  • Waagmeester, Andra, Gregory Stupp, Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, Benjamin M. Good, Malachi Griffith, Obi L. Griffith, Kristina Hanspers, et al. 2020. «Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph for the Life Sciences». eLife 9 (marzo). https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.52614.
  • Zhao, Fudie. 2023. «A Systematic Review of Wikidata in Digital Humanities Projects». Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 38 (2): 852–74. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac083.
When and Where

Florence, 5-6 June 2025.

The conference takes place in three different venues:

  • 5 June 2025 - Main auditorium / aula magna University of Florence, Piazza di San Marco 4;
  • 6 June 2025 - Two rooms in University of Florence: room 1 School of Education, Aula Magna, Via Laura 48; room 2 SAGAS: Via G. Capponi 9
How to participate

Important dates:

  • 15.10.2024 Launch of the Call for Papers
  • 09.12.2024 Deadline for submissions
  • 06.02.2025 Notification of acceptance / rejection
  • By 17.02.2025 Deadline to confirm the participation in presence
  • 01.03.2025 Registration opening
  • 21.04.2025 Submission of the full papers
  • 05-06.06.2025 Conference dates
Programme and venues

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The conference about Wikidata and research is a two day conference with contributions in Italian and English.

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Wednesday, 4 June 2025

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The activity has been postponed

Pre-conference at the Social science library, via della Pandette 2: Bottega della scienza – open access (in Italian)

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Thursday, 5 June 2025

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Venue: Aula Magna, University of Florence, Piazza di San Marco 4

Time Duration Type Title Speaker
09:30 60’ Registration
10:30 < 5’ Welcome Welcome by UniFi Stefano Cannicci
10:40 10’ + 5’ Welcome Welcome by WMIT Elena Marangoni
10:50 10’ + 5’ Introduction Introduction to Wikidata + Wikibase (slides) Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
11:10 5’ Welcome Welcome by WMDE; what is ongoing on Wikidata Lydia Pintscher (recorded message)
11:30 5’ LT La bibliografia di Giacomo Caputo e il ruolo di Wikidata per la sua valorizzazione Manuela Parrilli
11:40 5’ LT Committenze semantiche: Wikidata per la ricerca storico-artistica Alessio Ionna
11:50 5’ LT ProgrEFR: diffondere e promuovere i programmi di ricerca dell’Ecole française de Rome con Wikidata Elisa Saltetto, Elena Avellino
12:00 20’ + 10’ Paper Una proposta per la gestione dei fondi personali in Wikidata Tania Maio
12:30 20’ + 10’ Paper Developing eViterbo: Challenges and Strategies for Open Linked Data in the Humanities Alice Santiago Faria
13:00 2 hours Break (Lunch)
15:00 20’ + 10’ Paper Authoritative Practices and Collective Validation: Wikidata within the Collaborative Digital Edition of the Greek Anthology (slides on GitHub) Maxime GuĂ©nette, Mathilde Verstraete, Marcello Vitali-Rosati
15:30 20’ + 10’ Paper Collecting and Detecting Ancient Greek Historians through Wikibase and Wikidata Leonardo D’Addario
16:00 60’ Poster session (in the courtyard) Poster session
16:00 60’ Coffee break (in the courtyard)

Next:

  • Visit (from 17:00) to the Botanical Garden of the University of Florence, Via Pier Antonio Micheli 3;
  • All conference participants will have free access to the sections of the Museum of Natural History of Florence (Museum of Geology and Paleontology, La Specola, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, and the Botanical Garden). Free admission is granted to participants from Thursday, June 5th to Sunday, June 8th, upon presentation of a badge or pass proving attendance at the conference.
  • Dinner is on your own, but we suggest meeting at Mercato Centrale, Via dell’Ariento, offering a wide variety of food to satisfy every taste and need.

Friday, 6 June 2025 (two nearby venues)

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  • School of Education, Aula Magna, Via Laura 48, 50121 Florence (coffee break and posters here)
  • SAGAS: Via Gino Capponi 9, Florence

Room 1 (Aula Magna) – Via Laura 48

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Time Duration Type Title Speaker(s)
09:30 30’ Registration
10:00 20’ + 10’ Paper Whose History We Keep: Benchmarking Wikidata's Record of the Past's Protagonists (not present) Lennart Finke, Sarah Sophie Pohl, Janek Große, Luca Lukacevic, Stefan Haas
10:30 20’ + 10’ Paper Hunting for Lost Heritage on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata Marco Chemello
11:00 20’ + 10’ Paper A visualization system based on Wikidata for supporting and monitoring the Wiki Loves Monuments Italian contest (slides) Tommaso Elli, Andrea Benedetti, Angeles Briones, Michele Mauri, Dario Crespi
11:30 30’ Coffee break
12:00 20’ + 10’ Paper Visualizing Wikidata: the RAWGraphs 2.0 approach Michele Mauri, Tommaso Elli
12:30 20’ + 10’ Paper Developing a creative model for Wikidata analysis in the GLAM sector Enrique Tabone
13:00 2 hours Break
15:00 5’ LT Automatic Verification of References of Wikidata Statements E. Simperl, O. Rodrigues, A. Meroño-Peñuela, K. Saad alghamdi, G. Maia Rocha Amaral, N. Gavenski, Jongmo kim, M. Redi, B. Zhang, Y. Zhao
15:10 5’ LT Mapping UNIMARC to BIBFRAME: The SHARE Catalogue Knowledge Base on Wikibase.cloud (slides) Claudio Forziati, Alessandra Moi
15:20 5’ LT Enhancement and sustainable fruition of Cultural Heritage in the era of ecological transition: open data and citizen science Alessia Minnella
15:30 5’ LT A Wikibooks-Wikidata Integration for Crowdsourced Curatorship at the Museu Paulista in Brazil João Peschanski, Solange Ferraz de Lima

Room 13 – Via Gino Capponi 9

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Time Duration Type Title Speaker(s)
09:30 30’ Registration
10:00 20’ + 10’ Paper The OpenAcolit Project: a directory of Italian libraries built with Wikibase Stefano Bargioni
10:30 20’ + 10’ Paper An ontology for Italian theatrical cultural heritage on wikibase.cloud Donatella Gavrilovich, Giovanni Bergamin, Valeria Paraninfi
11:00 20’ + 10’ Paper Leveraging Wikidata for Amateur Theatre Research. The WikiFAIR Approach of the P-CITIZENS Amateur Theatre Ioanna Papazoglou, Meike Wagner
11:30 30’ Coffee break in Via Gino Capponi (SAGAS)
12:00 20’ + 10’ Paper Reimagining Digital Gazetteers: A Wikidata-Powered Approach Maxime GuĂ©nette
12:30 20’ + 10’ Paper Opening up and linking type catalogues in Wikidata – increasing the visibility of natural history collections Sabine von Mering
13:00 2 hours Break
15:00 5’ LT Modeling Architectural Heritage in Wikidata: A Case Study of Early Modern European Hospitals Frieder Leipold, Maximilian Kristen, Lily Marie Baumeister, Isabella Limmer, Chiara Franceschini
15:10 5’ LT Integrating Projects Working Around An Open Database Of Published Music Recordings: a call for collaboration Toni Sant
15:20 5’ LT A data visualization tool for heritage buildings in India and Bangladesh: the project of a wiki for ID-SCAPES Giuseppe Resta, Sidh Losa Mendiratta, Tiago Filipe Trindade Cruz
Informal meetings of small groups (max 8 people) can be held at the Architecture Library, Via Pier Antonio Micheli, 2 (from the afternoon of the 5th to the afternoon of the 6th).
Scientific committee

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  • Elena Marangoni, Wikimedia Italia (chair)
  • Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
  • Silvia Bruni, UniversitĂ  di Firenze
  • Iolanda Pensa, SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
  • Monica Berti, UniversitĂ€t Leipzig
  • Franco Bagnoli, UniversitĂ  di Firenze
  • Carlo Bianchini, UniversitĂ  di Pavia
  • Alessandra Boccone, UniversitĂ  degli Studi di Salerno
  • Antonella Buccianti, UniversitĂ  di Firenze
  • Dimitri D’Andrea, UniversitĂ  di Firenze
  • Annick Farina, UniversitĂ  di Firenze
  • Fulvio Guatelli, UniversitĂ  di Firenze
  • Luca Martinelli, Wikimedia Foundation
  • Alessio Melandri, Wikimedia Italia
  • Daniel Mietchen, FIZ Karlsruhe
  • Rossana Morriello, UniversitĂ  di Firenze
  • Federico Morando, Centro Nexa su Internet & SocietĂ  del Politecnico di Torino
  • Maria Ranieri, UniversitĂ  di Firenze
  • Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lucia Sardo, UniversitĂ  di Bologna
Editorial guidelines

Improve Wikidata and research/Editorial guidelines Maximum length of contributions:

Paper: 5000 words (including references, figure captions, author's names, and contact details), with a maximum of 5 figures. In English or Italian

Lightning Talk: 3000 words (including references, figurecaptions, author's names, and contact details), with a maximum of 3 figures. In English or Italian

Poster: 1000/1500 words, one image, and link to high resolution image uploaded in Wikimedia Commons. For the printed version: minimum 300 dpi, 70x100 cm. vertical.

For each paper, LT and poster authors are expected to submit also:

  • Abstract in English: max 800 characters including spaces, in a separate text file;
  • Biobibliography of authors: in English, max 300 characters including spaces, in a separate file (.doc, .rtf, ecc.).
  • Keywords: in English, from 3 to 5, separated by commas;
  • Links and credits: insert links to external datasets, if used, and credits.
  • License: CC BY/CC BY-SA for texts; CC0 (preferred) for dataset


For every other instruction (reference format, bibliography, separate file format, etc.) please strictly adhere to the Firenze University Press editorial guidelines available through those links: 
ITA: https://books.fupress.it/assets/pdf/Author_Guidelines_FUP.zip 
ENG: https://books.fupress.it/assets/pdf/Guida_per_gli_Autori_FUP.zip

Please note that the publication will be an accessible ebook, so authors are expected to provide alternative texts for images, tables, graphs, etc. according to the instructions in §9 of the Guidelines above.

The deadline for submitting your paper/LT/poster is the 21th of April.

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