FAIR Data Digest #16
how important is the social component for Research Data Infrastructures and how can you explore existing Wikibase cloud instances?
Hi everyone,
as promised, today you will hear more about the research data infrastructure conference where I and around 680 other people attended last week in Karlsruhe, Germany. Grab a cup of coffee of tea and enjoy today’s edition!
📅 Why do we need research data infrastructure and how important is the social component and the humans? I have been to the 1st Conference on Research Data Infrastructure. Read more about it in today’s event section.
🔍 Did you know that the software behind the large Knowledge Base Wikidata is open source? Setting it up is rather technical, but the Wikibase cloud is one web service that wants to help you with that. In today’s insights category I show you how you can discover existing Wikibase instances.
📅 Events: CoRDI conference
For many tasks in our daily lives we use data and services from the web. You would expect nothing less as a researcher. Yet, providing data and services relies on good data management, reliable research data infrastructure and various communities.
Last week I’ve been to the 1st Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI) (Q120753666), and so have around 680 people!
My main takeaways
It’s mostly about human problems that need to be fixed (connecting communities, data governance, etc)
Knowledge Graphs and especially Wikibase gain attention in the context of research (data) infrastructures
There is an increasing need for sustainably funded data management careers
I have had a lot of interesting chats, have seen inspiring keynotes and exciting presentations. Grab a cup of coffee and tea and check out my conference trip blog post.
🔍 Insights: Explore the Wikibase cloud
Contributing knowledge to the big hub Wikidata is not always the most suitable solution for some use cases. What if you need your own specific data model or if you don’t want that others change your data?
One way to get started with your own Wikidata is setting up a Wikibase instance (Q16354758). This rather technical process is offered by the Wikibase cloud (Q109377403). Since recently you can browse existing instances of the cloud to find valuable data for your use case! I already had a look and there are many interesting instances out there, some from well known initiatives.
That’s it for this week of the FAIR Data Digest. I hope you found the content interesting. Don’t forget to share or subscribe. See you next week!
Sven