Navigating change: an exploration of socio-epistemic process of extending Wikidata ontology with new properties

• Published in: Journal of documentation Vol. 80; no. 6; pp. 1291 - 1312
• Main Author: Roszkowski, Marcin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bradford Emerald Publishing Limited 25.09.2024; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subjects: Changes; Collaboration; Community; Division of labor; Editing; Engineering; Epistemology; Evolution; Infrastructure; Knowledge organization; Knowledge Representation; Learning Activities; Ontology; Regulation; Regulations; Social structure; Epistemic practices; Wikidata; Socio-epistemic processes; Ontology evolution

PurposeThe paper addresses the issue of change in Wikidata ontology by exposing the role of the socio-epistemic processes that take place inside the infrastructure. The subject of the study was the process of extending the Wikidata ontology with a new property as an example of the interplay between...