Possibilities for structuring data in the wikidata format for data stored in blockchain
International Journal of Development Research
Possibilities for structuring data in the wikidata format for data stored in blockchain
Received 11th January, 2022; Received in revised form 26th January, 2022; Accepted 03rd February, 2022; Published online 30th March, 2022
Copyright © Marcelo Ribeiro de Oliveira Mello et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Securely storing both the data representation and the information it carries is not a simple task. The Wikidata project, since 2012, has been storing, in a format intelligible to men and machines, an infinity of informational entities cataloged by humanity. Therefore, there are initiatives to use this same standard for structuring metadata in other organizational systems outside the scope of the Wikimedia Foundation. However, for such an adoption to be made effectively, sooner or later the need to seek the guarantee of immutability of metadata stored in this format arises. Thus, this study presents a debate around the possibilities of storing metadata in Wikidata compatible format in a block chain network (Blockchain). To this end, a scope review was carried out on searches for early indications of the use of blockchain networks for storing semantic entities according to Wikidata standards. It is possible to see some promising initiatives using blockchain technologies in the search for metadata storage in the Wikidata compatible format.
