Africa is clearly subject to systemic bias: it is under-represented from the point of view of participation, content, and perspective. The exhibition Making Africa invites us to reflect on how little we know about Africa, and on the fact that we have historically looked at the continent from a Western or Eurocentric perspective, through our…… Continue reading Africa from the West: a Biased View
Tag: knowledge management
Wikidata: The New Rosetta Stone
With more than fifteen million items compiled in the space of just three years, Wikidata is set to become the main open data repository worldwide. The eagerly awaited promise of linked open data seems to have finally arrived: a multilingual, totally open database in the public domain, which can be read and edited by both…… Continue reading Wikidata: The New Rosetta Stone