Wikidata:WikidataCon 2017/Submissions/3 million historical place names in Wikibase
This is an Open submission for WikidataCon 2017 that has not yet been reviewed by the members of the Program Committee.
- Submission no. 1
- Title of the submission
3 million historical place names
- Author(s) of the submission
Susannaanas, Nikerabbit
- E-mail address
susanna.anas
gmail.com
- Country of origin
Finland
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
- Type of session
- Lightning talk or
- Discussion / round table
- Length of session
- 10 min or
- 30 to 45 min
- Ideal number of attendees
No requirements
- Abstract
The Institute of the Languages of Finland has decided to make available their digitized historical place names collections on a wiki platform. It will be a Wikibase repository, which will be designed to connect with Wikidata. The plan is to allow crowdsourcing interfaces to add or correct information, place names on a map and connect with other sources. The data will be made available for hobbyist history research. The project will make use of discussions in the WikiProject Historical place in Wikidata. In this lightning talk we will present what has been accomplished by that time and what plans are ahead, and can discuss briefly similar ideas and projects across Wikiverse.
The lightning talk could alternatively be included in a discussion / round table setting discussing the modelling of historical places in general, if there are others interested in the topic.
- What will attendees take away from this session?
- Connect with a project to make use of Wikibase
- Familiarize, learn or connect with a project solving modelling old place names
- We hope to be able to make connections with others working with similar issues.
- Slides or further information
- Special requests
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