The Whelming

At the dawn of Wikidata, I wrote a tool called “Terminator”. Not just because I wanted to have one of my own, but as a pun on the term “term”, used in the database table name (“wb_term”) where Wikidata labels, descriptions, and aliases are stored. The purpose of the tool is to find important (by […]

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After my recent blog post about the TopicMatcher tool, I had quite a few conversations about the general area of “main topic”, especially relating to the plethora of scientific publications represented on Wikidata. Here’s a round-up of related things I did since: As a first attempt, I queried all subspecies items from Wikidata, searched for […]

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Wikidata already contains a lot of information about topics – people, places, concepts etc. It also contains topics that have a topic, e.g., a painting of a person, a biographical article about someone, a scientific publication about a species. Ideally, Wikidata also describes the connection between the work and the subject. Such connections can be […]

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