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## Glossary

## Glossary
**Item**
: A Wikidata entity representing a thing or concept, such as a person,
place, or work. Each item has a unique identifier beginning with "Q"
(e.g. Q42 for Douglas Adams).

**Property**
: A defined relationship or attribute used in Wikidata statements.
Each property has a unique identifier beginning with "P"
(e.g. P31 for "instance of").

**Statement**
: A claim about an item, consisting of a property and a value,
optionally supported by references and qualifiers.

**Triple**
: The basic data structure of RDF and Wikidata, consisting of a
subject, predicate, and object (item – property – value).

**Label**
: The human-readable name of an item or property, which can exist
in multiple languages.

**Description**
: A short phrase that helps distinguish an item from similar items,
available in multiple languages.

**Alias**
: An alternative name for an item, used to improve searchability.

**Qualifier**
: Additional information that refines a statement, such as a time
period or a location.

**Reference**
: A source that supports a statement, such as a URL or a publication.

**Identifier**
: A property that links a Wikidata item to an entry in an external
database, such as VIAF, ORCID, or the Library of Congress Name
Authority File.

**SPARQL**
: A query language for RDF data, used to search and retrieve
information from Wikidata via the Wikidata Query Service at
https://query.wikidata.org/.

**RDF (Resource Description Framework)**
: A standard model for data interchange on the web, based on triples.

**Wikidata Query Service**
: The SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata, available at
https://query.wikidata.org/, which allows users to run queries
against the Wikidata knowledge graph.

**Test instance**
: A separate version of Wikidata at https://test.wikidata.org/
used for practice and testing, which is regularly cleaned and
does not affect the live database.

**QuickStatements**
: A tool for bulk adding or editing Wikidata statements using
tab-separated data.

**Scholia**
: A tool built on Wikidata that generates scholarly profiles for
researchers, organizations, and topics based on Wikidata data.

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## References

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- Allison-Cassin, S., Armstrong, A., Ayers, P., Cramer, T., Custer, M.,
Lemus-Rojas, M., McCallum, S., Proffitt, M., Puente, M. A., Ruttenberg, J.,
& Stinson, A. (2019). [ARL White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and
Recommendations](https://www.arl.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019.04.18-ARL-white-paper-on-Wikidata.pdf).
Association of Research Libraries.

- Bianchini, C., \& Sardo, L. (2022). [Wikidata: a new perspective towards
universal bibliographic control](https://www.jlis.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/439).
JLIS.It, 13(1), 291–311.

- Elhossary, M., \& Förstner, K. U. (2025). [InteractOA: Showcasing the
representation of knowledge from scientific literature in Wikidata](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3233/SW-243685).
Semantic Web. DOI: 10.3233/SW-243685

- Nielsen, F. Å., Mietchen, D., \& Willighagen, E. (2017). [Scholia and
scientometrics with Wikidata](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-70407-4_36).
In E. Blomqvist et al. (Eds.), The Semantic Web: ESWC 2017 Satellite Events.
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- Vrandečić, D., \& Krötzsch, M. (2014). [Wikidata: A free collaborative
knowledgebase](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2629489).
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