wbsheets - Google Sheets extension for Wikibase editing
Keywords: Knowledge graph, Wikibase, Linked data management, Tabular data
TL;DR: It is in the title
Abstract: In this paper we introduce a new tool for editing Wikibase data in tabular format called wbsheets. The goal of the tool is to be approachable to wide audience of data editors for which reason it is implemented as a Google Sheets extension. The editable subsets of data are defined using the EntitySchema Wikibase extension as ShEx shape expressions. Schemas and property metadata is used by the wbsheets to generate validation rules in the Sheets documents as well provide autocomplete support against SPARQL endpoints for linkimg cell data to external resources. Finally, data can be synchronized with the connected Wikibase instance directly from Google Sheets with support for custom rank selection and collision detection. wbsheets can be used to either import data from Wikibase to Sheets for editing or map an existing Sheets document to an EntitySchema. The latter approach was used in the case study with the National Archives of Finland where an existing spreadsheets of thousands of corrections based on feedback from the public was mapped to an EntitySchema, reconciliated, validated and synchronized to a custom Wikibase instance.
Submission Number: 7
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