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Developers put Wikidata's millions of interrelated Items to any number of fascinating uses. Here are just a few. Use them to spark your imagination and see what is possible.

Information access and augmentation The most straightforward way to use Wikidata is to populate a project with rich and varied data, structured from the source -- whether it's tapping information directly or adding extra context or dimension to existing data. KDE Itinerary: a privacy-respecting digital travel assistant (source code) FaceTheFacts: a tool that shows politicians' information by scanning their election posters (source code) Scholia: comprehensive profiles of people, organizations, topics, etc. using Wikidata (source code)

Machine learning and AI Wikidata's robust and reliable data is ideal for use in training machine-learning models, such as for improving entity recognition or verifying an algorithm's output. There’s nothing like mountains of hard data to keep machine learning and artificial intelligence tethered to the real world. Falcon 2: an entity and relation linking tool (source code, paper) Harnessing Wikidata for entity recognition Entity disambiguation: OpenAI's entity disambiguation project using Wikidata to determine types

Data visualization & exploration Immense volumes of information are hard for humans to conceive of. Visualization is crucial to imbuing bodies of data with meaning, and exploration tools provide guidance across vast, difficult-to-navigate data oceans. There's no shortage of ways to represent Wikidata's contents, including both built-in functionality and implementations by gifted third parties. openArtBrowser: a website to let you explore visual art (source code) Govdirectory: a directory of official online resources in government (source code) InteractOA: a front end for RNAs interaction network data (source code) Research Expeditions: an overview of research expeditions and the specimen found during them For more tools and projects, check the data visualization tools page.

Gateway to Linked Open Data Although Wikidata contains a staggering amount of data, growing every day, it's only one of many data stores in the world's network of Linked Open Data. Wikidata also contains countless links that lead to this rich assortment of databases and catalogs. Wikiflix and Wikivibes: open media browsers for movies and music (source code) The Smithsonian Institution's LOD project work

Disambiguating, cataloging and tagging Wikidata has something special to offer those who work with large datasets of their own: the ability to use its IDs of notable entities for tagging and disambiguation, providing precious, hard-to-find context. OCCRP Aleph: Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, disambiguating and linking data to help journalists (source) Blog post on Aleph: An Александр by any other name YLE: Finland's public broadcaster's Wikidata project for robust multi-language article tagging

Internationalization One of Wikidata's greatest strengths is that its data is impressively multilingual, making it perfect for internationalization and localization. It’s also packed with lexicographical data -- data about words in many languages. Scribe: a Wikidata-based, feature-packed smartphone keyboard app (source code) Mapbox GL Language: use Wikidata's labels to internationalize maps (source) Abstract Wikipedia: create language-independent Wikipedia content (Articles about Abstract Wikipedia on the Diff blog)