The global knowledge base: open data about everything | Martin Poulter | TEDxBathUniversity

Wikipedia changed the web. Now its sister site Wikidata is sharing free knowledge in a form that computers can process and build on. To build a summary of human learning and culture, make it readable by computers, and make it free, is an ambitious goal that already involves thousands of participants around the world. This talk is about what computers can do with a global, shared knowledge base; what they can't do; and and how it is up to all of us - individuals and organisations - to contribute. Dr Martin Poulter has been the Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Oxford and helps researchers and cultural institutions get the benefits of sharing data. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx