 Oh, hi everyone, we are live, we're here and we can begin. Is that right? That's right. Okay. Hi. Hello. So, but we're not on the full screen yet. But I guess it's fine. Okay. So. Hello everyone. Welcome to our presentation. And Valerie, the community communications manager for wiki base. And I'm going to present with Christos, who's the partner manager for base. So we're going to talk about the wondrous world of wiki base. What we envision is a hopefully easy to grasp introduction to what wiki base is all about. And yeah, we're happy to be here with you. And we hope you enjoy it. So today we'll talk about the vision. We'll talk a little bit on what linking data is actually about. We'll give you an intro into what wiki base can do. And where we envision it in the ecosystem and linked open data web. So I'm going to show you some showcases and talk about community and support. And that's it for today. So. We envision diverse communities around the world who participate in wiki data and in a network of specialized wiki bases to co-create an open and free global knowledge graph in a thriving linked open data web. So we're going to talk about the visualization of that on the left. And here you can see basically what we mean by by linking data. So the way that knowledge bases are organized within wiki base instances is in the same way that it is on wiki data with which you might be familiar with or some of you may be familiar with where you have items, you have properties and you have statements for each properties. You have unique items like my young genu here for instance, and then you have various properties for each one of the items. For example, the place of birth, which in this case for my young genu would be St. Louis. But the thing is that unlike a traditional database here St. Louis is an item in itself with its own properties. And in this way, as an item with properties and various statements and some of these statements would be again items themselves, you are able to create, we are able to create a much more resomatic knowledge base, not like the traditional database where you would have to know a very top down organization of data, but rather a knowledge base, what we call a knowledge base. And thus wiki base is the free source. Of course, that stores organization information which can be collaboratively edited and read by both humans and computers. It can be translated into multiple languages. And it can be shared with the rest of the world as part of the link open data web. Now, the key functionalities of wiki base is that users can create and manage their own link open knowledge bases. They can use a flexible data model. So users can build their own data model which should their needs. And they are not confined by the data model that is provided by the software. In this case, you can make your own that will suit exactly your needs. Everything is on media wiki interface, which means that we can easily access and update the data. All users collaboratively, everyone who is working on this specific wiki base on each specific base instance. And just like on wiki data, we can interact with and interact. We can ask questions using sparking the powerful query language. And we would say that wiki base is suitable for data collections that demand that want a flexible data model. It is very powerful for linking databases to external sources. And this means external sources in general, or it could mean to wiki data or other wiki bases to other wiki base instances. Then it's pretty suitable for collaborative projects as well, where many people can edit and manipulate the data. It is it is really good for data that should be readable by humans and by machines. So they can also access it before data that can be questioned through sparking this instance. And then for projects that involve multilingual labor. So one thing that makes wiki base also very unique is that wiki base doesn't see itself as a standalone project, but as a part of a greater ecosystem. So it's collaborative nature makes it easier than ever to create, connect and grow a collaborative link knowledge base. It's enabling the co-creation of the world's largest knowledge graph of free and open data, which will be used to create new and accessible knowledge for the world. When you look onto the next slide, then you see that it can be a it can be a scenario in which a lot of different knowledge bases and projects are interlinked with each other and can nurture exchange and create new knowledge together. And this is where we see wiki base heading towards too. You got a sense in the previous slide of the users of the organizations, but we went through it quickly. So we're going to go a little bit into more detail about who is using wiki base. It's, in fact, it's pretty difficult to say that it's pretty difficult to track down every time you're using it. And especially when we're talking about wiki base read, the self hosted version of wiki base. However, the image we have approximately looks a little bit like this chart here. In which, yes, we know that, you know, science researchers, governments as well, government related agencies and organizations are using wiki base, but essentially the largest, let's say part of the users of wiki base comes from the clowns from galleries, libraries, archives and museums. And here we have like a few examples of users. This is, for example, the European Union, the European Commission is using it for the EU knowledge graph. And as a data repository for the publication website, essentially what they have done is a database or a knowledge base rather in which there are data for all funding that the European Union has given, has provided to various projects over the years. And we see this actually as a very significant project and initiative for openness, for open knowledge, but also, you know, for a healthy democratic society, there is transparency about the funding. And there is, there is, it's not only open, such data are supposed to be open anyway, but by organizing them in this way and by making them sensible and queryable, it's also accessible, it's making it accessible. So citizens of the European Union or anywhere in the world can actually see where money from the European Union is going. It has been going over the years. And, right, that's one example then of Wikibase. And here's another. This one is the fact that it is a Wikibase instance that started as a research project of a research group of historians. But it started with a very specific purpose basically to document the history of the Illuminati, but by using it and by, you know, by exploring its functionalities, so to say, they have decided the makers, the original makers of this, they have decided that it can be much more. And what it has become today is, let's say, an open database for historians, for researchers, historians to not only deposit data, but rather to work live collaboratively, analyze and compare and connect data. RISOM is one of the first organizations that picked up Wikibase. RISOM is an art organization that works with modern digital art. And they have adopted, they have adopted Wikibase in order to create the art base, their art base, so to say, of, you know, of modern digital art works. And they commented in our discussions, they commented about how the flexible model of Wikibase captures the constantly changing nature of digital art. And this is exactly why this is exactly how it treats them, so to say. The modern digital art has the particularity that each artwork might be completely different, a completely different format, a completely different thing from the rest. So if we are talking about something that is not standardized and not canonical and you want to create a database of such items and of such data, then Wikibase, at least for them, has worked pretty well in doing that. Right, I think we don't have super much time, so I guess it's cool. I think you can still talk about quickly about enslaved and teacher art base. Slave is an amazing project and again, like a very, very significant initiative. It's a Wikibase instance in which they have created a link-open database of the history of the transatlantic slave trade. What I was describing before about a knowledge base in which properties and statements and items can be mixed and organized in a geometric way, it finds an excellent application in this case, because in this case we have, for example, items as people, events, places, and so on, and by connecting the data within the database, not in the traditional structured top-down way, but in the way of a knowledge base, like a Wikibase, you can explore users, historians, researchers, or anyone basically, you can explore, for example, people's biographies, or family trees, or, you know, movements of people in their states, for example. And again, we at least think that this is a very important initiative. Us, actually, the kids for this as well. Another example, a smaller Wikibase instance, in comparison to what we've seen so far, it's an attempt to document and create a comprehensive database of the third cell language, and this one is built on Wikibase cloud right. And finally, Yes, so if you want to use Wikibase and have a look at it, we'd be happy to welcome you and especially welcome you in our community. And it continues to grow and we really like to have other community members engage with each other, and we build or let them build by others together a number of avenues to connect with each other. So there's the user group, mailing lists, the telegram channel, monthly live sessions, or the Wikibase stakeholder group, and you can find all of them on our sites as well. And then we also offer support to help you onboarding into the software with detailed documentation on how to this is the next slide on how to set up Wikibase using the Docker images or do it manually. We have a useful FAQ and technical support through third party support service providers that you can also find. So that's it from our site. Thank you for joining us here. We hope that you have a better idea now of what Wikibase is. If you have any questions, you can reach out to partnerships or our contact address and you will find much more information on the Wikibase website and on media Wiki. So thank you for joining us here and have a great rest of your conference day.