by Greg Stupp | Aug 31, 2018 | bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics, biomedical research, Gene Wiki, SPARQL, Uncategorized, Wikidata
We recently gained access to the anonymised logs of several hundred million SPARQL queries from the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint. This blog post contains some discussion about the main takeaway points, while the full analysis and code can be found here. What are we...
by Andra Waagmeester | Oct 26, 2017 | Wikidata
On Wikidata’s fifth birthday, we (the Gene Wiki team) offer our hearty congratulations!! It is amazing what has been achieved in such a short timespan. Wikidata has basically given us – and the larger research community – the gift of not having to maintain...
by Andra Waagmeester | Jul 13, 2017 | semantic web, SPARQL, Wikidata
This blog is about running federated SPARQL queries on Wikidata. A federated query is a special type of SPARQL query that runs on more then one SPARQL endpoint. It allows access to multiple linked data resources in a single query. Below is a template of a federated...
by Andrew Su | Jul 7, 2017 | Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal, proposal, Wikidata
The Gene Wiki project has been generously funded by the National Institutes for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) since 2009. As the second funding period is wrapping up early next year, it was time to once again look forward and think about our vision for the next 4-5...
by bgood | Jun 16, 2017 | crowdsourcing, Gene Wiki, semantic wikipedia, sulab, wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
As the Wikimedia Movement works to define its strategy for the next fifteen years, it is worthwhile to consider how its recent product Wikidata may fit into that strategy. As its homepage states, “Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and...
by ginger | Dec 26, 2016 | big data, biocuration, conference, Gene Wiki, poster, presentation, publication, semantic wikipedia, wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
I knew it! Last year, I struggled with the year-end post for the Gene Wiki/WikiData (AKA the Gene WikiData) project because the Gene WikiData team was incredibly active. I learned my lesson, and attempted to better track their activity earlier this year with a running...
