Familiar Wikidata: The Case for Building a Data Source We Can Trust

By Constance Crompton1, Lori Antranikian1, Ruth Truong2, Paige Maskell1

1. University of Ottawa 2. Carleton University

Wikipedia is far from perfect. The same can be said of its sister project, Wikidata. And yet, excluding the World Wide Web itself, Wikipedia and Wikidata together represent the world’s largest structured humanities data source. This methods…

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