Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata: Case study of Taiwan's villages and rivers dataset
2022-08-20 , Auditorium B

Open data is a trend in Taiwan, and some community members of OpenStreetMap or Wikidata are importing or merging information they obtain from government sources into the corresponding OpenStreetMap and Wikidata Database. The village dataset is available by sharp file and detains metadata with reference numbers, and the river dataset covered big rivers in Taiwan. In this talk, I will talk about the process of importing data, maintaining data, and linking each data not only with the government source but also to OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.


I will not only talk about dealing with the village and river datasets but also with other import project in Taiwan, like Taichung address dataset import, schools, kindergarten, etc. And I will also have a short introduction of Taiwan community activities, both OpenStreetMap and Wikidata. Recently OpenStreetMap Taiwan got funded by Wikimedia Foundation to improve Taiwan mapping data and also Wikimedia related projects like Wikidata, Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiki Commons, etc.


Affiliation:

OpenStreetMap Taiwan

Talk keywords:

Taiwan, Wikidata, river, village, school

Subtitle:

Taiwan dataset import history

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Dennis Raylin Chen is an Open Data enthusiast, map lover, active contributor of OpenStreetMap, and a Wikidata and Wikipedia lover. OpenStreetMap Taiwan and Wikidata Taiwan community member. Co-host Taipei OpenStreetMap x Wikidata monthly meetup. I have made several imported-project on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata. And also regularly do QA stuff on both projects.
I also serve as the chairperson of Wikimedia Taiwan, the legal entitles of the Wikimedia movement in Taiwan.