Other Use Cases

Wikidata can be used in endless ways - find out about more projects using Wikidata.

Sum of all Paintings project 

This is a WikiProject to get an item on Wikidata for every notable painting. Again, this information can be queried, used for research, presentations and in a variety of other ways to further education and access to knowledge. 

See the project page here.

Wikidata and Cultural Heritage

On 19 June 2020, the Science Museum Group hosted a free, public webinar on Wikidata and Cultural Heritage collections. This was the first in a series of convenings as part of the Heritage Connector project.

"Exploring the educational potential of Cultural Heritage in Wikidata - when GLAM and Education collide". A presentation by Dr. Shani Evenstein Sigalov
Educator, researcher and Free Knowledge advocate.

 

Research networks: Wikicite and Scholia

Wikicite was founded in 2016 to build a repository of sources in Wikidata.

See more information about Wikicite.

The Scholia Web service creates on-the-fly scholarly profiles for researchers, organisations, journals, publishers, individual scholarly works, and for research topics.

Check out Scholia

Scholia: a tool to handle scientific bibliographic information in Wikidata - Finn Årup Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark, Wikimedia Denmark, presenting at WikidataCon in November 2017.

Scholia makes extensive use of the Wikidata Query Service and its core functionality is to show scientific bibliographic information: list of publications of specific authors, venues, organization, bar charts of number of citations, graphs of co-authors etc.

It attempts to make a complete researcher profile/CV as well as a tool to help researchers navigate the scientific literature.

There are over 174 million open citations (174, 418, 589) and over 36, 242, 591 scholarly articles on Wikidata.

For example:

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