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Oct 29, 2022 • 52 tweets • 15 min read
Today it's ten years since Wikidata had launched, October 29, 2012.
A few memories. 1/
It's been an amazing time. In the summer of 2011, people still didn't believe Wikidata would happen. In the fall of 2012, it was there. 2/
Oct 28, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
A brilliant keynote by Markus Krötzsch @ma_kr for this year's @iswc_conf
"The era of stand semantics has ended"
Yes, yes! 100%! That idea was in the air for a long time, but Markus really captured it in clear and precise language
talk starts at 15:51
This talk is a great birthday present for @wikidata 's ten year anniversary tomorrow. The Wikidata community had over the last years defined numerous little pockets of semantics for various use cases, shared SPARQL queries to capture some of those, identified constraints and ...
