Familiar Wikidata: The Case for Building a Data Source We Can Trust

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance Crompton ◽  
Lori Antranikian ◽  
Ruth Truong ◽  
Paige Maskell
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Data Source

Wikipedia is far from perfect. The same can be said of its sister project, Wikidata. And yet, excluding the World Wide Web itself, Wikipedia and Wikidata together represent the world’s largest structured humanities data source. This methods paper offers an introduction to the value of Wikidata for humanities research and makes the case for humanities researchers’ intervention in its development. It concludes with a short case study to illustrate how Wikidata can support humanities research projects. The case study project, Linked Familiarity, uses Wikidata data about the people quoted in the first ten editions of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations to look for patterns in the people Bartlett’s Familiar editorial team thought readers find quotable from 1855 and 1910. These patterns will, we hope, clarify a corner of the zeitgeist: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations readers voted with their purchases—the book’s popularity suggests the quotes the volume’s editorial team compiled really did meet a public desire, or even need. The Linked Familiarity’s team is using Wikidata data to find out about the people worth quoting in this 55-year stretch, to examine the characteristics that unite them, and to uncover the outliers.

Collaboration Intricacies of Web 2.0 for Training Human Resource Managers

2009 ◽  
pp. 131-135
Author(s):  
Jacqueline A. Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Human Resource Managers ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
The People ◽  
The World

The World Wide Web (WWW) was initially written as a “point and click hypertext editor” (Berners-Lee, 1998, para. 2). Used as a search device by academia and industry, it has over the years experienced both rapid and explosive growth. Earlier incarnations of the World Wide Web were known as “Web 1.0.” Since its inception however the internet has undergone a rapid transformation into what is now considered a sense of community, a reciprocal sharing among users, and a sense of “cognitive presence” (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2000), which has been facilitated by a plethora of software tools that allowed users to widely share their work, in thought (e.g., blogs), in creative endeavors, and in collaborative projects. Siemens’ (2005) theory of “connectivism” encompasses the feeling that sharing promotes and encourages a sense of community that is continually being recreated by its audience. The newest forms of interaction are in the form of virtual worlds, in which avatars can attend class, build their own edifices, sell objects, and meet with other individuals in a global virtual exchange. What was once considered static computing has been transformed into a rich, dynamic environment that is defined by the people who peruse it, as evidenced in the following quotation: “The breaking down of barriers has led to many of the movements and issues we see on today’s internet. File-sharing, for example, evolves not of a sudden criminality among today’s youth, but rather in their pervasive belief that information is something meant to be shared” (Downes, 2006, para. 15). As of 2006, the Web had a billion users worldwide (Williams, 2007). Today’s Web users for the most part are not simply information seekers, but co-creators who wish to collaborate and share information in an electronic environment.

Infometrics and the World Wide Web: A Case Study and Discussion

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Downie
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Site ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The World ◽  
Modelling Techniques

This paper discusses how the application of informetric modelling techniques and principles offers a powerful set of analytic tools for empirically grounding one's understanding of World Wide Web interactions. Data collected from the transmission statistics of a non-profit Web site are presented to illustrate the usefulness of informetric analyses for both scholars and practitioners. . .

Collaboration Intricacies of Web 2.0 for Training Human Resource Managers

2009 ◽  
pp. 546-552
Author(s):  
Jacqueline A. Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Human Resource Managers ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
The People ◽  
The World

The World Wide Web (WWW) was initially written as a “point and click hypertext editor” (Berners-Lee, 1998, para. 2). Used as a search device by academia and industry, it has over the years experienced both rapid and explosive growth. Earlier incarnations of the World Wide Web were known as “Web 1.0.” Since its inception however the internet has undergone a rapid transformation into what is now considered a sense of community, a reciprocal sharing among users, and a sense of “cognitive presence” (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2000), which has been facilitated by a plethora of software tools that allowed users to widely share their work, in thought (e.g., blogs), in creative endeavors, and in collaborative projects. Siemens’ (2005) theory of “connectivism” encompasses the feeling that sharing promotes and encourages a sense of community that is continually being recreated by its audience. The newest forms of interaction are in the form of virtual worlds, in which avatars can attend class, build their own edifices, sell objects, and meet with other individuals in a global virtual exchange. What was once considered static computing has been transformed into a rich, dynamic environment that is defined by the people who peruse it, as evidenced in the following quotation: “The breaking down of barriers has led to many of the movements and issues we see on today’s internet. File-sharing, for example, evolves not of a sudden criminality among today’s youth, but rather in their pervasive belief that information is something meant to be shared” (Downes, 2006, para. 15). As of 2006, the Web had a billion users worldwide (Williams, 2007). Today’s Web users for the most part are not simply information seekers, but co-creators who wish to collaborate and share information in an electronic environment.

An integrated help desk support for customer services over the World Wide Web — a case study

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Schubert Foo ◽  
Siu Cheung Hui ◽  
Peng Chor Leong ◽  
Shigong Liu
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Help Desk ◽  
The World ◽  
Customer Services

Memorializing Loved Ones on the World Wide Web

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian de Vries ◽  
Judy Rutherford
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Death Ritual ◽  
The World ◽  
Data Source ◽  
The Web

Creating and visiting Web memorials represent new opportunities for post-death ritual. A content analysis was conducted on a sample of 244 of the memorials found on the largest Web Cemetery: Virtual Memorial Gardens (catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/memorial.html). Analyses revealed that memorials were written, in descending order of prevalence, by children (33%), friends (15%), grandchildren (11%), parents (10%), siblings (8%), spouses (4%), and various other family members. This pattern favoring younger authors may reflect the newness of this venue and facility with computer technology. The content of such memorials often contained reference to missing the deceased, rarely spoke of the cause of death, or made mention of God or religion. Memorials were more likely to be written to the deceased (e.g., in the form of a letter) rather than about or for the deceased (e.g., eulogy/obituary or tribute). Parents, family groups, and other relatives more frequently made religious references in their memorials than did other authors. In addition to the Web as a novel, untapped data source, these memorials offer intriguing opportunities for theoretical refinement (i.e., the ongoing connection between the bereaved and the deceased).

scholarly journals Web 6.0: Journey From Web 1.0 To Web 6.0

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Özgür Önday ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Present Status ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
The World ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Data Source ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Web

The fast track toward the improvement of Web is instituted to be as an out and out wonder in the present society with fused utilization of current creative innovation and rethinking the method for arranging, imparting and working together with person which in wording lead us to blend of terrific victories and disappointments. The motivation behind this paper is to comprehend and conceptualize the development of Web from the scratch to the up and coming patterns in the field of Web Technology. The World Wide Web as the biggest data build has had much progress since its approach. This paper gives a foundation of the development of the web from web 1.0 to web 4.0. Web 1.0 as a snare of data associations, Web 2.0 as a trap of individuals associations, Web 3.0 as a trap of learning associations and web 4.0 as a trap of knowledge associations are portrayed as four ages of the web in the paper. Additionally, in this work, we inquire about the advancement of things to come of the (Web 5.0 and Web 6.0). Likewise, we present the present status and worries about the Web as a data source and correspondence channel.

scholarly journals Indigenous and Transnational Values in Oceania: Heritage Reappropriation, From Museums to the World Wide Web

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica De Largy Healy ◽  
Barbara Glowczewski
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Singular Values ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
The People ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

What is the value of heritage? A source of explosive emotions which oppose the “value” of so-called Western expertise – history of social and human sciences and constant reevaluation of the heritage market – versus the values in “becoming” of the people who recognise themselves in this heritage and who claim it as a foundation for an alternative and better life? In this paper, we examine some of the ways in which different groups in the Pacific reinterpret their heritage in order to redefine their singular values as cultural subjectivities: individual, collective and national, diasporic or transnational in the case of some Indigenous networks (Festival of the Pacific Arts, Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, etc).

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