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Wikidata and Research
The programme for the “Wikidata and Research” conference is now available online. Scheduled for 5–6 June 2025 at the University of Florence, this event is convened by a volunteer Scientific Committee in collaboration with Wikimedia Italia and the University of Florence.
“Wikidata and Research” will examine Wikidata’s role as both an open-data infrastructure and a research tool, showcasing its integration into scientific workflows, open-data management and semantic-web ecosystems. As the primary structured-data repository underpinning all Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Commons, Wikisource, etc.), Wikidata’s CC0 licence ensures unrestricted reuse and seamless linkage with other open datasets.
Over two days of plenaries and parallel tracks there will be:
- Scholarly presentations on novel research applications of Wikidata
- Project demonstrations from GLAM institutions and research groups
- Hands-on workshops and collaborative editing (in both Italian and English)
- Panels and open discussions on methodology, tooling and community practices
A pre-conference meetup (in Italian) will take place on 4 June at the University’s Social Sciences Library, allowing participants to network and discuss early insights.
This conference is designed for researchers and data scientists leveraging Wikidata in their work, GLAM and cultural-heritage professionals exploring structured data, Wikimedia volunteers and community members and any advocate of open data reuse in academic and cultural contexts.
