And on the topics of #cultureheritage data and #wikibase at #MUDCon2025, our @tibosl colleague Lucia Sohmen presents our work and ongoing challenges using formal data models for cultural data in our service #Wikibase4Research, part of the @nfdi4culture service portfolio.

Lucia presented ideas on our current workarounds, but also what we see as crucially missing in current status quo, opening up the floor to discussions about future development & what #ECHOLOT might be able to offer.

Follow along (or catch up) via the live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWzELDLmkc

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@ainali @pintoch @tibosl @nfdi4culture like everything else, the answer (imo) is 'it depends'. Some projects are fine with WB as a backend and a custom frontend (eg static site via Snowman), others actually use WB, or WB + SMW, as a kind of frontend (for data editing) and then what is needed is another standards compliant DB, i.e. another triple store in the backend for data retrieval. And with the #ECHOLOT project we're sort of taking a path in the middle of radically rethinking mediawiki's framework as frontend and backend for data management.

And on the topics of #cultureheritage data and #wikibase at #MUDCon2025, our @tibosl colleague Lucia Sohmen presents our work and ongoing challenges using formal data models for cultural data in our service #Wikibase4Research, part of the @nfdi4culture service portfolio.

Lucia presented ideas on our current workarounds, but also what we see as crucially missing in current status quo, opening up the floor to discussions about future development & what #ECHOLOT might be able to offer.

Follow along (or catch up) via the live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWzELDLmkc

#openscience #opensource #semanticmediawiki #wikibase

And we're officially announcing the #ECHOLOT project publicly for the first time at the #MUDCon2025 with @krabina from KMA, one of our partners in this new HORIZON Europe collaborative project. Bernhard provided some history and context to the project idea, and we outlined how we are reimagining the #MediaWiki software for the future of connected cultural heritage data together with a dozen other EU organisations. More details on the project will be published soon on the @tibhannover website.

In the meantime, stay tuned and follow along the MUDCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWzELDLmkc

#openscience #opensource #semanticmediawiki #wikibase