From CegeSoma spreadsheets to Linked Data:a Wikibase journey

Anne Chardonnens

@annechardo

Linking the Past, KBR, 22.11.2019

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1 PERSON = 1 UNIQUE IDENTIFIER

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net/

(201

7-08

-22)

}

Two processes run in parallel…0. The data

Working on a sample Working on the whole dataset

1. Cleaning and deduplicating the data

Manual process based on deductionsOpenRefine &

The Python Record Linkage toolkit

2. Reconciling names with external resources

Custom research OpenRefine reconciliation services (Wikidata, Viaf, ULAN etc.)

.

3. Modeling the data

Data modeling based on a representative sample From strings to things (URIs)

4. Running a Wikibase

Locally AGR server

5. Importing data

MediaWiki Graphical User Interface Several solutions for (Semi-)automatic data ingestion

Wikibase-edit

QuickStatements

Wikidata Integrator

Pywikibot

Heard Library Python script

6. Querying data

Simple search box SPARQL Query Service