This free e-learning course and respective learning materials provides an understanding on how community-led tools can be used to create a data-driven semantic layer in a bottom-up way.
In this course, you will learn how community-led tools and platforms like Wikibase, Semantic MediaWiki, and Wikidata can be used to create a data-driven semantic layer in a bottom-up way. Data-driven projects are not meant to replace traditional semantics, typically implemented in a more top-down manner with ontologies and controlled vocabularies carefully designed by official institutions and experts, but rather to offer an alternative and complementary approach leveraging the power of distributed knowledge to improve linked data solutions.
The primary target audience for this course includes:
Policymakers
Public administrators
Data maintainers
IT professionals.
Course duration: 2,5 hours
What are the objectives of this course?
Pros and cons of using Wikibase/SMW for your dataspace
Lessons learnt from projects already using Wikibase/SMW instances
Practical know-how about setting up a new Wikibase/SMW from scratch
What should be on Wikidata vs in a local Wikibase/SMW
