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DESCRIPTION: Join us for the August 2025 Dundee Data Meetup \n\n Join us fo
 r our monthly Dundee Data Meetup\, featuring two expert speakers who will 
 be talking about OpenStreetMap and Wikidata. \n\n Speakers and Topics \n\n
  1. OpenStreetMap: what\, why\, and how's it doing? \n\n Gregory Marler\, 
 Conference Lead for State of the Map Europe 2025 \n\n A world wide wiki ma
 p\, the leading open geospatial database\, an unstoppable community projec
 t\, a life-saver for humanitarian projects\, a source of art\, a global in
 dustry disruptor\, and much more. You might know OpenStreetMap\, but how w
 ell do you really know it? Let's also look at why you should care about it
 \, why you should use it\, and why millions of people have built the data.
  Not to mention how good and strong the project and the data is now. This 
 will be a wide-breadth talk covering the many subject interests of OpenStr
 eetMap. No technical knowledge required\, but there will be pointers to wh
 ere you can find out more. \n\n   \n\n 2. Wikidata - its place in the Open
  Data eco-system \n\n Ian Watt\, Co-founder and trustee at Code The City \
 n\n Wikidata is a collaboratively edited multilingual knowledge graph host
 ed by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is a common source of open data that Wi
 kimedia projects such as Wikipedia\, and anyone else\, are able to use und
 er the CC0 public domain license. As of early-2025\, Wikidata had 1.65 bil
 lion item statements (semantic triples). Its open nature means that anyone
  can contribute data to it\, and its powerful SPARQL interface permits sop
 histicated querying. \n\n In this talk\, Ian will give an overview of Wiki
 data\, examine use cases for it\, identify some associated tools\, and fin
 ish with practical SPARQL querying examples to help you get started in re-
 using data from the system. \n\n   \n\n Speaker Bios \n\n Gregory Marler \
 n\n A lover of data and a big OpenStreetMap advocate. Gregory literally pu
 t places on the map when it was still blank\, and last year moved home to 
 Dundee where his free-time activities continue to involve surveying the wo
 rld around him. \n\n Ian Watt \n\n Ian is an active champion of Open Data\
 , having led Aberdeen City Council to be the first Scottish Local Authorit
 y to publish any open data. Ian won two national UK awards in 2013: SOCITM
  Member of the year and the UK Local Government Category of 2013’s Digit
 al Leaders 50. Ian was one of the author’s of Scottish Government’s Op
 en Data Strategy 2015. Ian\, an active trainer for Wikimedia UK\, was shor
 tlisted in their awards in 2019 and 2020. He was shortlisted in the Open U
 K awards 2021. Ian was a non-exec director of Democracy Club from Nov 2017
  to Sept 2022. He has written extensively about open data\, including a pa
 per\, as lead author\, for the David Hume Institute. He co-founded Code Th
 e City in 2014 and has run their Data Meet-ups\, Python User Group session
 s\, and hack weekends. He initiated Scottish Open Unconference and was par
 t of the group who developed Open Data Scotland. \n
LAST-MODIFIED:20260113T171749
LOCATION:Dundee\, UK
ORGANIZER:mailto:dundeedatameetup@gmail.com
SUMMARY:Dundee Data Meetup: August 2025
URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/dundee-data-meetup/aug-2025
URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/dundee-data-meetup/aug-2025
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