Technical Usability of Wikidata’s Linked Data

Freire, Nuno; Isaac, Antoine

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-36691-9_47

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“…A number of other works address aspects other than intrinsic ones. For example, the authors of [21] report a study on how Wikidata is interlinked to the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud, while [15] reports on the technical aspects of the rendering of Wikidata content in RDF.…”

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confidence: 99%

Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata

Dadalto,

Almeida,

Fonseca

et al. 2024

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The distinction between types and individuals is key to most conceptual modeling techniques and knowledge representation languages. Despite that, there are a number of situations in which modelers navigate this distinction inadequately, leading to problematic models. We show evidence of a large number of representation mistakes associated with the failure to employ this distinction in the Wikidata knowledge graph, which can be identified with the incorrect use of instantiation, which is a relation between an instance and a type, and specialization (or subtyping), which is a relation between two types. The prevalence of the problems in Wikidata’s taxonomies suggests that methodological and computational tools are required to mitigate the issues identified, which occur in many settings when individuals, types, and their metatypes are included in the domain of interest. We conduct a conceptual analysis of entities involved in recurrent erroneous cases identified in this empirical data, and present a tool that supports users in identifying some of these mistakes.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%