Wikidata:Usability and usefulness/Third Party Research on Wikidata

Collecting usability and usefulness related research on Wikidata, linked open data and semantic data

GLAM

Association of Research Libraries Whitepaper on Wikdata

Link to Association of Research Libraries Whitepaper on Wikdata

Excerpt: "…It is unlikely at this point that Wikidata can replace systems needed to manage collection inventory, transactions, and other practical aspects of managing linked data within library systems… libraries have generally seen the benefit of making their data openly available as linked data… out of reach… due to a lack of accessible tools and techniques as well as a lack of consensus on application use beyond first adopters.… Research libraries, by getting involved in the Wikidata community as users and contributors, can help address these barriers. Using infrastructure such as Wikibase and Wikidata allows integration into a variety of systems and tools"

Academic

“Between Meaning and Machine: Learning to Represent the Knowledge of Communities.”

Link to Between Meaning and Machine

Excerpt: "We identify three steps in the routine: understanding the problematic of interoperability; learning the practice of knowledge acquisition; and engaging the broader community. As participants traversed the routine they came to articulate, and then represent, the knowledge of their communities."

Ribes, David, and Geoffrey C. Bowker. “Between Meaning and Machine: Learning to Represent the Knowledge of Communities.” Information and Organization 19, no. 4 (2009): 199–217.

Wikidatians Are Born: Paths to Full Participation in a Collaborative Structured Knowledge Base

Link to Wikidatians Are Born

Excerpt: "…frameworks of legitimate peripheral participation and activity theory.… as they engage more with the project, “Wikidatians” acquire a higher sense of responsibility for their work, interact more with the community, take on more advanced tasks, and use a wider range of tools. Previous activity in Wikipedia has varied effects."

Citation: Piscopo, Alessandro, Christopher Phethean, and Elena Simperl. “Wikidatians Are Born: Paths to Full Participation in a Collaborative Structured Knowledge Base,” 2017. https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2017.527.

Peer-production System or Collaborative Ontology Engineering Effort: What is Wikidata?

Peer-production system or collaborative ontology engineering effort: what is Wikidata?

Excerpt: "…we performed a cluster analysis of participants' content editing activities. … results suggest very specialised contributions from a majority of users. Only a minority, which is the most active group, participate all over the project. These users are particularly responsible for developing the conceptual knowledge of Wikidata. We show the alignment of existing algorithmic participation patterns with these human patterns of participation. In summary, our results suggest that Wikidata rather supports peer-production activities caused by its current focus on data collection."

Citation: Müller-Birn, Claudia, Benjamin Karran, Janette Lehmann, and Markus Luczak-Rösch. “Peer-Production System or Collaborative Ontology Engineering Effort: What Is Wikidata?” In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, 20:1–20:10. OpenSym ’15. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1145/2788993.2789836.