Q42 (Wikidata item)
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Q42 is a Wikidata item representing the author Douglas Adams. It has been used as the standard exemplar Wikidata item in several academic papers and published books.[1][2][3][4][5]. The use of the number 42 as the code for this item is a reference to the original sentence in his famous books: "The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42".[6]
References
- ↑ Proffitt 2018, p. 147.
- ↑ Ismayilov et al. 2016, p. 2.
- ↑ Erxleben et al. 2014, p. 3.
- ↑ Vrandečić & Krötzsch 2014.
- ↑ Samuel 2018, p. 2.
- ↑ 42: THE ANSWER TO LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING, The Independent, 6 February 2011
Sources
- Proffitt, Merrilee (2018). Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge. American Library Association. ISBN 978-0-8389-1632-2. Retrieved 2019-03-16. Search this book on

- Ismayilov, Ali; Kontokostas, Dimitris; Auer, Sören; Lehmann, Jens; Hellmann, Sebastian (December 8, 2016), "Wikidata through the Eyes of DBpedia", Semantic Web, IOS Press, arXiv:1507.04180, ISSN 1570-0844
- Erxleben, Fredo; Günther, Michael; Krötzsch, Markus; Mendez, Julian; Vrandečić, Denny (4 July 2014), Introducing Wikidata to the Linked Data Web (ISWC 2014) (PDF) (International Semantic Web Conference paper)
- Vrandečić, Denny; Krötzsch, Markus (October 2014), "Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase", Communications of the ACM, 57 (10): 78–85, doi:10.1145/2629489, archived from the original on 2019-03-11, retrieved 2019-03-16 Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - Samuel, John (April 16, 2018), "Towards Understanding and Improving Multilingual Collaborative Ontology Development in Wikidata", WikiWorkshop 2018, doi:10.5281/zenodo.1219239
Further reading
- Simonite, Tom (February 18, 2019). "Inside the Alexa-friendly world of Wikidata". Wired.
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