Wikidata, the multilingual collaborative knowledge graph – Part 1

A literature and structural review

Abstract

This two-part series of studies examines the structure of Wikidata, its role in the semantic web and possible applications, by presenting international examples and reviewing the scientific literature. The intention is twofold: on one hand, to provide a comprehensive and complete overview of Wikidata in the absence of literature written in Hungarian, summarising the most important research results concerning the knowledge graph, and on the other hand, to present good practices and possible applications of Wikidata integration, especially from the perspective of public collection stakeholders. In Part 1, a historical overview of Wikidata explores the development goals and steps that led to the website as we know it today. After defining the semantic structure needed to store data as RDF triples, the community collaboration model of Wikidata and how multilingual data is managed are presented.