Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-28 Thread Maarten Dammers

Hi Daniel,

Op 26-6-2013 20:37, Daniel Kinzler schreef:

Am 25.06.2013 22:16, schrieb Maarten Dammers:

I think that the technology of Wikidata would be very useful for this, but that
the meta data should be maintained on Commons itself.

Why?

Because it makes sense that the meta-info is stored in the same place as and
maintained by the same people as the primary data. Easier to maintain, back up, 
etc.
Commons should be the interface to maintain the data. The actual data 
can be stored in a different location.

I want to link the images with the items on Wikidata. So instead of having
[[Category:Grote Kerk, Haarlem]] I just want to do depicts Q item for the
Church
I guess that's not possible when we have two Wikibase databases?

Sure it's possible, no problem. The example properties are meant to be read that
way.
So I can link images of the church to 
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1545193 (item on Wikidata)? I don't feel 
like having duplicate systems..

You won't be able to run queries that span both system though, like give me the
birthdays of all people shown on pictures in category x. But that's the only
big limitation i see.

In the long run we should probably get rid of the categories.

Maarten

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Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-28 Thread David Gerard
On 28 June 2013 18:16, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl wrote:

 In the long run we should probably get rid of the categories.


Heh, that sounds like a proposal custom-designed to get bogged down in
process. Best to let them fade away :-)


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Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-28 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 28.06.2013 19:16, schrieb Maarten Dammers:
 Commons should be the interface to maintain the data. The actual data can be
 stored in a different location.

yes, but it makes things easier to keep the meta data local to the primary data.
think of dumps, etc. i see no good reason to *not* have that info on commons.
just because it's structured data? support for that is now part of mediawiki,
it's not exclusive to wikidata.

 I want to link the images with the items on Wikidata. So instead of having
 [[Category:Grote Kerk, Haarlem]] I just want to do depicts Q item for the
 Church
 I guess that's not possible when we have two Wikibase databases?
 Sure it's possible, no problem. The example properties are meant to be read 
 that
 way.
 So I can link images of the church to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1545193
 (item on Wikidata)? I don't feel like having duplicate systems..

yes, that is the idea!

 You won't be able to run queries that span both system though, like give me 
 the
 birthdays of all people shown on pictures in category x. But that's the only
 big limitation i see.
 In the long run we should probably get rid of the categories.

yes :)

-- daniel


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Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-26 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 25.06.2013 22:16, schrieb Maarten Dammers:
 I think that the technology of Wikidata would be very useful for this, but 
 that
 the meta data should be maintained on Commons itself.
 Why? 

Because it makes sense that the meta-info is stored in the same place as and
maintained by the same people as the primary data. Easier to maintain, back up, 
etc.

 I want to link the images with the items on Wikidata. So instead of having
 [[Category:Grote Kerk, Haarlem]] I just want to do depicts Q item for the
 Church
 I guess that's not possible when we have two Wikibase databases?

Sure it's possible, no problem. The example properties are meant to be read that
way.

You won't be able to run queries that span both system though, like give me the
birthdays of all people shown on pictures in category x. But that's the only
big limitation i see.

-- daniel


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[Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-25 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Over the last year, we have seen some discussion about if and how Wikidata can
be useful for Wikimedia Commons. One aspect of this is maintaining meta data as
structured data.

I think that the technology of Wikidata would be very useful for this, but that
the meta data should be maintained on Commons itself. On behalf of the Wikidata
development team, I just posted a proposal for this:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata_for_media_info

We hope you regard this as an invitation to discuss the proposal and to identify
use cases that we do not cover with it.

Please use the proposal's talk page as a central place for discussion about
Wikidata and media meta data.

Please invite others involved with the Wikidata or Commons projects or otherwise
interested in media meta data to take part in the invitation.

Thank you,
Daniel Kinzler


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Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-25 Thread Juan de Vojníkov
Thank you for the information. Would it be possible to use Wikidata instead
of subject categories? I mean the biggest problem to get more participant
is category name on Commons are in English.


Regards,
Juandev

2013/6/25 Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de

 Over the last year, we have seen some discussion about if and how Wikidata
 can
 be useful for Wikimedia Commons. One aspect of this is maintaining meta
 data as
 structured data.

 I think that the technology of Wikidata would be very useful for this, but
 that
 the meta data should be maintained on Commons itself. On behalf of the
 Wikidata
 development team, I just posted a proposal for this:

 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata_for_media_info

 We hope you regard this as an invitation to discuss the proposal and to
 identify
 use cases that we do not cover with it.

 Please use the proposal's talk page as a central place for discussion about
 Wikidata and media meta data.

 Please invite others involved with the Wikidata or Commons projects or
 otherwise
 interested in media meta data to take part in the invitation.

 Thank you,
 Daniel Kinzler


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Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-25 Thread David Gerard
On 25 June 2013 15:58, Juan de Vojníkov juandevojni...@gmail.com wrote:
 2013/6/25 Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de

 Over the last year, we have seen some discussion about if and how Wikidata
 can
 be useful for Wikimedia Commons. One aspect of this is maintaining meta
 data as
 structured data.

 Thank you for the information. Would it be possible to use Wikidata instead
 of subject categories? I mean the biggest problem to get more participant is
 category name on Commons are in English.


OH YES YES YES! If WIkidata can help solve this one ...


- d.

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Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi,
Why not have tags (that are in effect references to Wikidata) they would in
effect be searchable in any language.
Thanks,
 GerardM


On 25 June 2013 17:04, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 25 June 2013 15:58, Juan de Vojníkov juandevojni...@gmail.com wrote:
  2013/6/25 Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de

  Over the last year, we have seen some discussion about if and how
 Wikidata
  can
  be useful for Wikimedia Commons. One aspect of this is maintaining meta
  data as
  structured data.

  Thank you for the information. Would it be possible to use Wikidata
 instead
  of subject categories? I mean the biggest problem to get more
 participant is
  category name on Commons are in English.


 OH YES YES YES! If WIkidata can help solve this one ...


 - d.

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Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-25 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 25.06.2013 17:19, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
 Hoi,
 Why not have tags (that are in effect references to Wikidata) they would in
 effect be searchable in any language.

Even though that is not explicitly stated, the proposal already covers that. Add
properties like depicts or topic to allow for tags. All wikidata items
referenced from a file's meta data could be considered tags (including the
ones identifying the author, etc).

We'd then need to improve the search page to actually make use of that data, and
search using the user's language. But that will then be a feasible project.

-- daniel


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Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-25 Thread Magnus Manske
toolspam
Complex queries on wikidata are possible to find what you want, albeit not
with wikidata itself (yet). Meanwhile:

Visual query builder : http://208.80.153.172/wdq/
API : http://208.80.153.172/api_documentation.html

/toolspam


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Otourly Wiki otou...@yahoo.fr wrote:

 Thank you for the information. Would it be possible to use Wikidata
 instead of subject categories? I mean the biggest problem to get more
 participant is category name on Commons are in English.
  
 Regards,
 Juandev

 +1

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Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-25 Thread Maarten Dammers

Hi Daniel,

I like to focus on one thing: Where to store it.

Op 25-6-2013 14:30, Daniel Kinzler schreef:

Over the last year, we have seen some discussion about if and how Wikidata can
be useful for Wikimedia Commons. One aspect of this is maintaining meta data as
structured data.

I think that the technology of Wikidata would be very useful for this, but that
the meta data should be maintained on Commons itself.
Why? I want to link the images with the items on Wikidata. So instead of 
having [[Category:Grote Kerk, Haarlem]] I just want to do depicts Q 
item for the Church

I guess that's not possible when we have two Wikibase databases?

Maarten



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