Unless something has changed radically, dbpedia is read-only. Assertions get into dbpedia by adding them to Wikipedia, and (after the wikipedia dumps have gone through the sausage grinder) linked data comes out the other side. Perhaps someday dbpedia will start loading assertions from wikidata as well. It should be easier since RDF dumps for Wikidata are available. It also looks like the relationship between dbpedia and wikidata is on the agenda for the first dbpedia community meeting [2] happening in about a week.
I agree with Andrea that Wikidata is the logical place to do this work. It’s not like the Wikipedia community doesn’t have its problems; but they are lightyears ahead of dbpedia in terms of building community, infrastructure and funding around open access data. //Ed [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02553.html [2] http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014 On Jan 21, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrea, I look in wikidata and also in dbpedia, and it does not look like > dbpedia is picking up the links that are added to wikidata (BNCF, Dewey, > etc.). Since dbpedia is THE linked data hub, do you know if there are plans > to include wikidata links in dbpedia? > > kc > > On 1/21/14, 6:34 AM, Andrea Zanni wrote: >> Hi all, >> I hope you are well. >> >> I would like to ask you if you are aware of any project concerning the >> collaboration of a National Library with Wikipedia, regarding things as >> theasuri and authority control. >> >> Last summer, >> the National Library of Florence (BNCF) approached Wikimedia Italia for >> a project of synchronization of the Italian thesaurus (thesaurus del >> Nuovo Soggettario [1]) with Wikipedia. >> They thesaurus linked to Wikipedia, but Wikipedia didn't link back. >> We asked the community and then synchronized the links between the >> Italian Wikipedia and the BNCF Thesaurus (now around 8'000). >> The links were later uploaded within a property in Wikidata (see >> property:P508[2]), and are now recalled automatically by >> Template:Thesaurus BNCF[3] on it.wikipedia. >> >> Right now, the BNCF would be eager to know if other theasuri had the >> same idea, as for the multilingual nature of Wikidata it would be "easy" >> to link thesauri in different languages, per Wikidata. >> It is the very same idea that animated the VIAF project: right now, >> Wikidata contains several identifiers for people and books, being a >> "super-authority control" (as Max called it :-). >> >> Using Wikidata as a bridge/cross walk would be very important and fairly >> "cheap": synchronizing 2 different thesauri isn't normally a easy job, >> but Wikipedias have already done the difficult part. >> >> The BNCF team has been working in the past years to connect other >> subject authority control lists. At the time being, 4000 tems in Italian >> thesaurus link to their equivalent LCSH term, and the LSCH linked back >> in the last weeks, via SKOS/RDF. >> The BNCF is doing the same with the French authority control RAMEU [4], >> from BNF, and the European community one EUROVOC [5]. >> >> >> So, the question is: >> are you aware of any project like this? Does your library mantain a >> thesaurus and aiming to put that on Wikipedia/Wikidata? >> >> Aubrey >> >> [1] http://thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/ricerca.php >> [2] http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P508 >> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FProperty%3AP508&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNES2Kai1a2kHor83XRugNKEzQ6Ntg> >> [3] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Thesaurus_BNCF >> [4] http://data.bnf.fr/ >> [5] http://eurovoc.europa.eu/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Libraries mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >> > > -- > Karen Coyle > [email protected] http://kcoyle.net > m: 1-510-435-8234 > skype: kcoylenet > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries
