Looking at collaborative curation of structured knowledge on Wikidata
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3145/thinkepi.2024.e18a35Keywords:
Wikidata, Knowledge organization, Taxonomies, Metadata schema, Resource description, Data reuseAbstract
Specific aspects relevant to understanding the functioning of Wikidata from the perspective of the collaborative organization of knowledge are reviewed. Collective curation poses challenges in data modeling and quality. Wikidata has the capacity to incorporate taxonomies and controlled vocabularies, but problematic practices are identified in the use of classes/subclasses and instances. The difficulties in establishing metadata schemas, creating consistent descriptions of elements, and using it as a bibliographic database are also described. Additionally, an overview is provided of the paradoxes created by licensing in the public domain and its use as a dataset for enriching next-generation artificial intelligence applications.References
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