Edward Betts

Wikidata and OpenStreetMap are collaborative open data projects that contain structured data for real world places and things. Adding links between the projects makes the data more useful, but doing this by hand is laborious. I've written a software tool that automates much of the process. Editors of OpenStreetMap can use my software to search for a place or region, generating a list of candidate matches from Wikidata, which can then be checked and saved to OpenStreetMap. Linking the two projects isn't without controversy. They use different licenses which raises questions about what information from one project can be copied to the other. In the presentation I will give details of a new version of the editing tool. I will talk about the benefits of linking, the process of finding matches, the community response - including the controversy - and how people can get involved.

Editors of OpenStreetMap can use my software to search for a place or region, generating a list of candidate matches from Wikidata, which can then be checked and saved to OpenStreetMap. Linking the two projects isn't without controversy. They use different licenses which raises questions about what information from one project can be copied to the other. In the presentation I will give details of a new version of the editing tool. I will talk about the benefits of linking, the process of finding matches, the community response - including the controversy - and how people can get involved.

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Wikidata and OpenStreetMap are collaborative open data projects that contain structured data for real world places and things. Adding links between the projects makes the data more useful, but doing this by hand is laborious. I've written a software tool that automates much of the process.

Editors of OpenStreetMap can use my software to search for a place or region, generating a list of candidate matches from Wikidata, which can then be checked and saved to OpenStreetMap.

Linking the two projects isn't without controversy. They use different licenses which raises questions about what information from one project can be copied to the other.

In the presentation I will give details of a new version of the editing tool.

I will talk about the benefits of linking, the process of finding matches, the community response - including the controversy - and how people can get involved.

A workshop aiming to introduce Wikidata and how to contribute to it, to explain how Wikidata and OSM are currently connected, and to discuss issues and ways for the OSM and Wikidata communities to further collaborate together.

OpenStreetMap and Wikidata are two of the largest crowdsourced _open data_ projects on the Internet. While OSM and Wikipedia, the more well-known sister project of Wikidata, are often compared with each other (e.g., “OSM is like Wikipedia for maps”), OSM and Wikidata are actually even more similar. OSM has things like nodes, ways, relations, tags, keys, and values, while Wikidata has similar concepts like items, statements, properties, values, and qualifiers. Data modeling discussions on the OSM tagging mailing list are often as passionate as similar discussions on the Wikidata project chat page. Since Wikidata was created in 2012, there have been plenty of links, projects, and collaborations between the two volunteer communities. This includes data links (such as OSM's `wikidata=*` tag and Wikidata's P402 or "OSM relation ID" property), to projects like Sophox which is a SPARQL endpoint that provides access to OSM and Wikidata, and to things like installing the Wikibase extension—the software that powers Wikidata—to the OSM Wiki in order to provide structured data for OSM keys and tags. This workshop is intended to provide participants with an introduction to Wikidata and how to contribute to it, how OSM and Wikidata compare and contrast with each other, and examples of projects or initiatives that combine OSM and Wikidata. The workshop will also teach participants how to use an online tool that lets mappers generate a list of candidate matches between OSM and Wikidata within a specified a place or region, which are then reviewed by the mapper and saved to OSM as wikidata=* tags. The final part of the workshop is intended to be a discussion of ways the two open communities can collaborate with each other including tackling the issues that prevent further collaborations (such as license compatibility).

Other people: Eugene Alvin Villar

Other people: Andrea Knabe-Schönemann Andra Waagmeester Liam Wyatt

[[:en:Wikidata|Wikidata]] and [[:en:OpenStreetMap|OpenStreetMap]] (OSM) are collaborative [[:en:open data|open data]] projects that contain structured data for real world places and things. Adding [[:en:linked data|links between the projects]] makes the data more useful, but doing this by hand is laborious. I've written a software tool that automates much of the process. Editors of OSM can use my software to search for a place or region, generating a list of candidate matches from Wikidata, which can then be checked and saved to OSM. Linking the two projects isn't without controversy. They use different [[:en:free license|licenses]] which raises questions about what information from one project can be copied to the other. I will talk about the benefits of linking, the process of finding matches, the community response - including the controversy - and how people can get involved. The software is available at https://osm.wikidata.link/

Wikidata and OpenStreetMap are collaborative open data projects that contain structured data for real world places and things. Adding links between the projects makes the data more useful, but doing this by hand is laborious. I've written a software tool that automates much of the process.

Editors of OpenStreetMap can use my software to search for a place or region, generating a list of candidate matches from Wikidata, which can then be checked and saved to OpenStreetMap.

Linking the two projects isn't without controversy. They use different licenses which raises questions about what information from one project can be copied to the other.

I will talk about the benefits of linking, the process of finding matches, the community response - including the controversy - and how people can get involved.