OpenAleph will now display an image, fetched from Wikidata, if a FTM entity has set the wikidataId property. We’re written about this on our blog, going into the weeds of the rationale behind the feature.
We also published a step-by-step tutorial that is meant to guide folx who maintain their own instance of OpenAleph, or those who are just exploring the software. We chose the format of a Jupyter notebook so that the entire tutorial is chunked into easily-digestible parts.
We cover:
- some basic scraping of Wikipedia entries (that results in a CSV)
- mapping the CSV data to FTM entities (from the command line)
- writing the resulting FTM entities to an OpenAleph instance (from the command line).
We plan to create more of these small introductions into how to use the tooling built around OpenAleph. It’s almost like they could form a curricula 
.