MetaBelgicaApr 2, 2025

πŸ“’ MetaBelgica Milestone!

We analyzed more than one million person authority records from the Royal Library of Belgium and our partners β€”our first big deliverable! We standardized dates & places, enriching data with GeoNames. This helps with public domain checks & multilingual linking.

πŸš€ Next steps: detecting overlaps & integrating data across institutions.

πŸ“„ Report: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15120909
πŸ’» Code: https://github.com/metaBelgica/person-data-analysis/ (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15120909)

#MetaBelgica #Wikibase #OpenData

MetaBelgica - Person data analysis

Person data analysis from the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and the Royal Museums for Art and History. Added Initial version of the notebook and helper scripts copied from internal repo with mixed content

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MetaBelgicaJun 12, 2024
Last week we participated at #dhbenelux2024 to gather feedback from researchers: if we offer authority data, which APIs do you need and which data fields are relevant for your Named Entity Linking use case? https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11045761 #MetaBelgica #NER #NEL
MetaBelgica: Breaking Belgian Federal Data Silos to support Named Entity Linking

A poster presented at the DHBenelux 2024 conference. It focuses on the usefulness of the MetaBelgica platform for Named Entity Linking of Belgian entities. This upload contains both the poster and a short abstract that introduces it.

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MetaBelgicaMar 7, 2024
Today #KBR hosted the #PublicDomainDay event together with #meemoo and @wikimediafoundation Belgium. Many interesting talks! Good quality data is key to detect when something becomes public domain. With #MetaBelgica we aim to provide such high quality data.
MetaBelgicaFeb 12, 2024
Recently we met with our technical partner IDLab from the University of Ghent to discuss #MetaBelgica and next steps for setting up our #Wikibase instance @wbstakeholders @wikimediafoundation
MetaBelgicaDec 15, 2023

What do "boom" and "arbre" have in common? They are both multilingual thesaurus terms for "tree", but they are also two different Belgian place names #dataCleaning

Discussing data integration for #MetaBelgica today at the Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage (#kik-irpa)

MetaBelgicaNov 20, 2023

Hello πŸ‘‹

we are four Belgian Federal Scientific Institutes that want to share FAIR data about Entities related to Belgian Cultural Heritage by the end of 2026.

Here you will find multilingual updates on our project!

More Info
➑️ https://www.kbr.be/en/projects/metabelgica/
➑️ https://github.com/metabelgica
➑️ https://zenodo.org/communities/metabelgica

πŸ“£ Please spread the word and follow us!

#MetaBelgica #ResearchInfrastructure #Belgium #ResearchData #DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage #Wikibase #Wikidata #OpenData #NLP #NER #NEL

MetaBelgica β€’ KBR

A shared entity management infrastructure between Federal Scientific Institutes in Belgium About the project Federal Scientific […]

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Sven LieberSep 12, 2023

The first session on Humanities & Social Sciences has kicked off at #CoRDI2023. Looking forward to present the following slides on #MetaBelgica in a bit to the crowded room

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8337301

MetaBelgica: A Linked Data Infrastructure Between Federal Scientific Institutes in Belgium

A presentation introducing the MetaBelgica project (2023-2026). It stresses on the need for metadata about entities (persons, organizations, time/events, location) related to Belgian cultural heritage data and how a consortium of four Federal Scientific Institutes is integrating the data and manage it via the open source software Wikibase.

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Sven LieberSep 12, 2023
After accumulating 3 hours delay for a 4.5 hour trip from Brussels to Karlsruhe (#DeutscheBahn) I am looking forward to talk about our #MetaBelgica project at the 1st Conference on Research Data Infrastructure #CoRDI2023 https://www.kbr.be/en/projects/metabelgica/
MetaBelgica β€’ KBR

A shared entity management infrastructure between Federal Scientific Institutes in Belgium About the project Federal Scientific […]

KBR