Wikidata:WikidataCon 2017/Submissions/The role of Wikidata in emergency response
- Submission no. 62
- Title of the submission
The role of Wikidata in emergency response
- Author(s) of the submission
- E-mail address
daniel.mietchenvirginia.edu
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
Data Science Institute, University of Virginia
- Type of session
Lightning talk
- Length of session
- 10min
- Ideal number of attendees
112
- Abstract
Following up on my Wikimania talk on the role of Wikimedia in emergency response, I will zoom in here specifically on how Wikidata can help
- educate about emergencies, their causes and effects as well as responses and prevention
- document emergencies
- document emergency preparedness
- enhance emergency preparedness
- respond to emergencies
- What will attendees take away from this session?
- A better awareness of the actual and/ or potential role of Wikidata in the context of emergencies
- Slides or further information
- The Wikimedia community collects and curates information related to disasters
- Wikimania session on how to make Wikimedia activities in this space more systematic
- collection of ideas
- vote
- ranked responses so far
- Ideas relevant to Wikidata
- Encourage providers of disaster-related data to use Wikidata identifiers
- Load disaster-related information into Wikidata
- Index the disaster-related literature in Wikidata
- Seek content donations from providers of disaster-related data
- Propose a Wikidata property for magnitude of an earthquake
- Prepare Wikidata queries around disaster-related information
- collection of ideas
- Some draft Wikidata queries around disaster response
- Provide mechanism(s) to avoid WDQS timeouts for certain pre-approved queries
- Events around Wikimedia and disaster response
- Special requests
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