Wikidata Query Service: Queries, statistics and dataviz for World Heritage

Can you draw the timeline of Stone Town’s significant buildings by inception date in 3 seconds? Can you immediately tell the percentage of natural World Heritage Sites in Africa? Can you draw a graph of the ten largest World Heritage archaeological sites in Asia in 1 second?
The answer is Yes, and the key is Wikidata Query Service!
Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. It acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and others.
Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is a software package and public service designed to provide a SPARQL endpoint which allows you to query against the Wikidata data set, with the possibility of data visualization.
In this training video, Andrew Lih explains Wikidata, the query service, and how to make queries related to World Heritage.

OpenRefine: World Heritage from data to wikidata

How to leverage the databases of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and other heritage institutions? Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. It acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and others, and offers multiple possibilities of data analysis and visualization. Yet, to free the power of Wikidata, it is important to export the institutions’ databases to it, which can take centuries if it is done manually, and the solution is OpenRefine! OpenRefine, previously known as GoogleRefine, is a powerful, open source software which visualizes and manipulates large quantities of data all at once In this training video, Sandra Fauconnier explains OpenRefine through exploring the UNESCO World Heritage Centre database and connecting it to Wikidata.

QuickStatements: World Heritage from data to wikidata

How to leverage the databases of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and other heritage institutions? Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. It acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and others, and offers multiple possibilities of data analysis and visualization. Yet, to free the power of Wikidata, it is important to export the institutions’ databases to it, which can take centuries if it is done manually, and the solution is OpenRefine! QuickStatements (QS) is a tool, written by Magnus Manske, that can edit Wikidata items, based on a simple set of text commands. The tool can add and remove statements, labels, descriptions, and aliases; as well as add statements with optional qualifiers and sources. In this training video, Nicolas Vigneron explains QuickStatements through exploring the UNESCO World Heritage Centre database and connecting it to Wikidata.

Petscan

A training by Houcemeddine Turki to explore the functionnalities offered by Petscan and how we can use it to retreive data using categories and other information.