Submissions:2014/NYCpedia: using Mediawiki with NYC's Open Data

Title of the submission

NYCpedia: using Mediawiki with NYC's Open Data

Themes (Proposal Themes - Community, Tech, Outreach, GLAM, Education)

Tech

Type of submission (Presentation Types - Panel, Workshop, Presentation, etc)

Lightning Talk

Author of the submission

Joel Natividad

E-mail address

joel.natividad@ontodia.com

Username

jqnatividad

US state or country of origin

NY

Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)

Ontodia

Personal homepage or blog

pediacities.com

Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)

See how Mediawiki, specifically, Semantic MediaWiki can be used to organize Open Data now being released at scale by New York City, converting raw open data catalogs with thousands of datasets, into hyperlocalized data aggregations of places around the city, democratizing access to this valuable resource of Open Data - data about us, for us, and paid for by us, beyond software developers and researchers.

Length of presentation/talk (see Presentation Types for lengths of different presentation types)

5 Minutes

Will you attend WikiConference USA if your submission is not accepted?

Yes

Slides or further information (optional)

Special request as to time of presentations

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