Recording of Feb meeting and meeting in March

[Shani Evenstein Sigalov]

Dear all, 

Thanks to everyone who were able to join our first meeting on Friday, especially our presenters, Philippe Saad & Mathias Schindler. 

A recording is available here, as well as a link to the playlist that will host all future meetings. An AI short summary is below.  

If there are any questions to Philippe or Mathias, please feel free to simply ask in this thread, as well as share any resources or cases you come across that may be of relevance. 

Our next meeting will take place March 27th at 15:00. We will have two presenters in the first hour and the last half hour will be dedicated to presenting how we will be working together on designing the pipeline / workflow for institutional data donation. 

Agenda will be share, with a reminder, a week before the session. 

Link to calendar invite here. 

See you next time!

Shani. 

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AI short summary: 

After a round of introductions, and an intro to AI-BRIDGES and the goals of the Open Forum meetings, the meeting focused on discussing the Wikidata embedding project and its potential applications. Philippe Saade presented the vector database and Model Context Protocol (MCP) developed to improve accessibility of Wikidata through semantic search. The project aims to enable generative AI models to reference Wikidata data, reducing misinformation and amplifying underrepresented knowledge. Participants explored the differences between keyword, Sparkle, and vector searches, as well as the use cases for the MCP. Mathias shared his experience with open data and the impact of generative AI on data manipulation and tool creation. The discussion touched on the challenges and opportunities of using AI to enhance data accessibility and utilization in the Wikimedia ecosystem.