Hi Laura, João Alexandre Peschanski, who is a professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil has been doing that for some time now. He's been experimenting with Wikidata, as Daniel suggested. He's CCed to this email.
Best, Shani. ----------------------------------------------- *Shani Evenstein Sigalov* EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University. Lecturer, Tel Aviv University. Chairperson, WikiProject Medicine Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med>. Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>. Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society <http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>. Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://bybe.benyehuda.org>. *+972-525640648* On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 1:41 AM Daniel Mietchen < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Laura, > > have you looked into Wikidata? > > There are quite a few examples like > > https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-occupations-of-people-in-the-panama-papers-a7025736.html > or > https://www.mysociety.org/2018/10/16/wikidata_and_congress/ > or > https://janakiev.com/blog/wikidata-mayors/ > that go into your direction. > > Daniel > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 7:35 PM Jenemann, Laura <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Dear Wikimedians, > > > > > > > > I am working with closely with our Data Journalism course this terms at > Boston University. I will be sharing some of my Wikipedia related lessons > with them. > > > > > > > > Using data to tell stories is a theme of this class. Have you used or > know of examples of how people have used Wikipedia or data related to > Wikimedia for data journalism? > > > > > > > > Thank you in advance for any information you can share. > > > > > > > > Sincerely, > > Laura > > > > -- > > > > Laura Jenemann > > > > Communication, Media, & Film Librarian > > > > Boston University > > > > 617-353-9240 > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Libraries mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >
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