Das Wien Geschichte Wiki

www.kdz.or.at

The Vienna History Wiki – a Collaborative Knowledge Platform for the City of Vienna August 19th, 2015

OpenSym, San Francisco Bernhard Krabina

Introduction

 KDZ – Centre for Public Administration Research  Open Knowledge – Austrian Chapter  Semantic MediaWiki

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The Vienna History Wiki https://www.wien.gv.at/wiki

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Why is it special? 

Process  digitizing a printed encyclopedia

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Governance  scholarly wiki

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Open Government  changes administrative processes

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Semantic  stores facts inside the wiki

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Open Data  data can be exported

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Historical Encyclopedia of Vienna 

six-volume encyclopedia "Historisches Lexikon Wien" 1994-2004 edited by Felix Czeike

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Last volume (6) was an update volume, released 2004

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Wiki ↓

Original→

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Content

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User Accounts and editorial team

External Institutions: 

Jewish Museum Vienna

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Association for the History of Vienna

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Austrian Institute of Historical Research

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Centre for Environmental History, Vienna

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Austrian Mediathek

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Memorial day index on paper for 2014

online for 2016

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Encyclopedia of street names

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Semantic MediaWiki

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Form based data entry (Semantic Forms)

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„Bennant nach“ = „named after“

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{{#ask:…}} query for pages named after „Sigmund Freud“

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List all pages of Category:Person with Birthyear::1856 and Sex::male

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Data on a timeline

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RDF/JSON export = Open Data!

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Visits (Logfile Analysis)

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Users (Survey)

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User demographics 

old, male and for private purposes…

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Challenges/Outlook 

legally too restrictive

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data not in Vienna‘s OGD catalog yet

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2015  Software-Upgrade to MW 1.23.9 and SMW 2.2.2  Bootstrap-Skin: Chameleon  New content category: books about Vienna

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2016  Dictionary of Viennese German dialect  More users from city departments and citizens

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Semantic MediaWiki  leaves your MediaWiki installation intact  no patching, just a (bunch of) MW extension(s)  already existing unstructured content can stay as it is or be transformed

 gives you all the tools you need for a collaborative web database  entering data and text  representing/visualising data and text within the wiki  re-use/export data outside the wiki

 everything is done through configuration  Attributes, Forms, Templates, Filters… are wiki pages  Queries, parsing, “programming” via Wikitext www.kdz.or.at 31. Juli 2015 · Seite 22

> 40 different „result formats“ |format=table |format=csv |format=calendar...

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Semantic MediaWiki as co-creation tool RDF/JSON export = Open Data

 Open-Source-Software  Easy to use  Wiki style collaboration

 Transparent edit history  Form-based data entry  Facetted search  Querying and displaying data inside the wiki  Automatically generated pages  Import and export of data www.kdz.or.at

„List all males born in 1856“

Contact

Bernhard Krabina 

krabina@kdz.or.at

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www.kdz.or.at

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@krabina

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