Wikibase
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| Developer(s) | Wikimedia Deutschland |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2012[1][2] |
| Repository | gerrit |
| Type | MediaWiki extension |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | wikiba |
Wikibase is a set of software tools for working with versioned semi-structured data in a central repository. It is based upon JSON instead of the unstructured data of wikitext normally used in MediaWiki. It stores and organizes information that can be collaboratively edited and read by humans and by computers, translated into multiple languages and shared with the rest of the world as part of the Linked Open Data (LOD) web.[3] It is primary made up of two MediaWiki extensions, the Wikibase Repository, an extension for storing and managing data, and the Wikibase Client which allows for the retrieval and embedding of structured data from a Wikibase repository. It was developed for and is used by Wikidata,[4] by Wikimedia Deutschland.
The data model for Wikibase links consists of "entities" which include individual "items", labels or identifiers to describe them (potentially in multiple languages), and semantic statements that attribute "properties" to the item. These properties may either be other items within the database, textual information or other semi structured information.[5]
Wikibase has a JavaScript-based user interface, a fully features API, and provides exports of all or subsets of data in many formats. Projects using it include Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons,[6] Europeana's Project, Lingua Libre,[7] FactGrid, the OpenStreetMap wiki[8], and wikibase.cloud.
See also
[edit]- Linked Open Data
- Wikidata
- Knowledge graph
- Document-oriented database
- Entity–attribute–value model (EAV)
- Attribute (computing)
- Property (programming)
- Semantic wiki
- Semantic MediaWiki
- Triplestore
- Semantic Web
References
[edit]- ^ Strategy for the Wikibase Ecosystem Archived 2019-09-18 at the Wayback Machine (August 2019)
- ^ "Wikibase Roadmap 2020". Archived from the original on 2022-10-18. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
- ^ Varvantakis, Christos (2025-01-11). "The Wikibase Software: Data and Collections in the Linked Open Data Web". doi:10.5281/ZENODO.14655779.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Vrandecic, D. (2013). "The Rise of Wikidata". IEEE Intelligent Systems. 28 (4): 90–95. doi:10.1109/MIS.2013.119. ISSN 1541-1672. S2CID 8073151.
- ^ Bergamin, Giovanni; Bacchi, Cristian (2018-09-15). "New ways of creating and sharing bibliographic information: an experiment of using the Wikibase Data Model for UNIMARC data". JLIS.it. 9 (3): 35–74. doi:10.4403/jlis.it-12458. ISSN 2038-1026. Archived from the original on 2021-10-29. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
- ^ "Version - SpecialPage". Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
- ^ "Who uses Wikibase?". Wikibase. Archived from the original on 2021-06-12.
- ^ "Data items". OpenStreetMap Wiki. Archived from the original on 2021-10-29. Retrieved 2019-05-12.