Re: [Wikidata-l] Data Templates
Hi Valentine, I think the following projects would also fall within the scope of your search: * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research The latter wrote a H2020 proposal in which Europeana is a partner: * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research/EINFRA-9-2015 . Cheers, Daniel On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Valentine Charles wrote: > > Hi all, > > Europeana.eu is interested in using Wikidata. At the moment, we are trying > to make a correspondence between the data structures in Wikidata and our > data model EDM [1] for digitized cultural collections. > > We started by looking at the general Wikidata project page [2] and found > that the following projects and related property list pages could be a > starting point for our work: > http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Visual_arts, > http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Books,http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Periodicals. > > Next to cultural items, we are also looking at persons, organizations, > places, subjects, events and the abstract notion of work for enriching our > data beyond the original description that is provided to us. For this we > found the http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Infoboxes a good > starting point since it gathers all of them, and also > http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Years_WikiProject for simple dates. > > We would appreciate if you could help us on finding other wikidata projects > that we would have missed, or any other work that could be relevant for us! > > Thanks in advance, > > [1] http://pro.europeana.eu/edm-documentation > [2] http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects > > > Valentine > Data R&D coordinator at Europeana Foundation > > > ___ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
Re: [Wikidata-l] WikiData for Research Project Idea: Structured History
Hi Sam, thanks for this suggestion. Laying the groundwork for "Structured X" (and follow-up projects with such a more specific focus) is one of the key themes of our proposal, and X=history would fit in with several of the bits we are planning (cf. Task 4.1): - we aim to bring in metadata from as much of the scholarly literature as possible, which would always include dates, but may include pointers to historic events as a topic being discussed in a publication; - we also aim to explore use cases around museum collections; - we plan to build tools that facilitate using and expanding the Wikidata ontology. I poked around a bit on the Papyrus site and could not find any information about their ontology, nor would Google tell me anything about the CIDAR ontology that you mention - can you provide some pointers? In the meantime, the timeline for the proposal submission has been updated: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research#Timeline . Contributions to any of the items would be much appreciated. Thanks and cheers, Daniel -- http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/institution/mitarbeiter/mietchen-daniel/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Publications http://okfn.org http://wikimedia.org On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Sam Smith wrote: > I am putting ideas together for a project that I am referring to as > "Structured History." The objective is to create a systematic way of > accessing information of an historical nature within an ontological context > that would permit historical reasoning. The elements of the project are (1) > access to structured historical information, which WikiData is beginning to > provide, and (2) relating the body of structured information to one or more > overall ontological frameworks, and then providing the tools for accessing, > displaying and analyzing the data. I have not yet identified an ontology > that would be most appropriate for historical purposes, other than an EU > funded project called Papyrus http://www.ict-papyrus.eu - but this seems to > be used by no one. Therefore, I would suggest that the development of an > historical ontology (possibly building on the work of Papyrus, which in turn > built on the museum ontology CIDAR) be part of a "structured history" project. > > The model consists of "historical entities" that can be anything that exists > or existed in time and place (animate, human or inanimate - book, river), > Places, and Events (which may be nested so that a War event can consist of a > sequence of Battle events). > > If a project of this scope were undertaken, it could provide the framework > within which other projects, such as the history of science, could be > developed. Issues with regard to WikiData are: (1) to what degree will > information (that may be available in Wikipedia articles) be structured > sufficiently for incorporation into the structured history project? (2) How > can historical narratives be broken down into elements that can be collected > in a meaningful way that retains semantic validity (veracity)? The system > should be comprehensive enough that all information and artifacts in museums > and libraries could be incorporated, either directly into the ontology or by > cross-reference (to CIDAR for instance). > > I would be interested to see if there would be support for such an endeavor, > and for incorporating it into the proposal for WikiData for Research. > Thanks - Sam Smith (SammyWiki) > Michigan > > -Original Message- > From: wikidata-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org > [mailto:wikidata-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of > wikidata-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org > Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 7:01 AM > To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Wikidata-l Digest, Vol 37, Issue 20 > > Send Wikidata-l mailing list submissions to > wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wikidata-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikidata-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: > Contents of Wikidata-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >1. Use cases for Wikidata in research contexts (Daniel Mietchen) > > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:43:06 +0100 > From: Daniel Mietchen > To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." > >
[Wikidata-l] Use cases for Wikidata in research contexts
Dear all, we are building the Wikidata for Research proposal [1] around use cases for Wikidata (or Wikibase) in research contexts (cf. Task 4.1). So if you are using Wikidata or Wikibase in research contexts already, or are contemplating to do so, we'd appreciate your comments. The same goes for use cases for DBpedia that would be enhanced by having a Wikidata/ Wikibase implementation. Thanks, Daniel [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research -- http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/institution/mitarbeiter/mietchen-daniel/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Publications http://okfn.org http://wikimedia.org ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
[Wikidata-l] Wikidata for research - a new WikiProject and a grant proposal
Dear all, I'm interested in making Wikidata more interesting to researchers. To this end, I have started https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research , whose first activity is to draft a proposal for a research grant which would allow researchers to work on this more systematically. Your contributions to this would be much appreciated. For more information, see http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/12/05/wikidata-for-research-a-grant-proposal-that-anyone-can-edit/ . Thanks and cheers, Daniel -- http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/institution/mitarbeiter/mietchen-daniel/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Publications http://okfn.org http://wikimedia.org ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
[Wikidata-l] Wikibase/ Wikidata for structuring biodiversity knowledge
Dear all, lately, I have been working on a report on mark-up and related approaches to structuring biodiversity information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/133szlTaabYakEeR6JF6FFYsDJH-bLdSgDby86XPxPDk/edit# Wikibase and Wikidata are featuring prominently in there, and I would appreciate your comments. Thanks and cheers, Daniel -- http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/institution/mitarbeiter/mietchen-daniel/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Publications http://okfn.org http://wikimedia.org ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
[Wikidata-l] Collaboration with scholarly resources?
Dear all, I am exploring options of interaction between Wikidata and scholarly resources. While my focus here is on biodiversity research (and I'd be very happy to hear about your activities along these lines), a more concrete route for collaboration now becomes visible with PubChem, as mentioned at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Chemistry#Collaboration_with_PubChem . Cheers, Daniel ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
Re: [Wikidata-l] Automatic summaries?
Just tried Magnus' demo. That's a good start - thanks!
Daniel
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On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Magnus Manske
wrote:
> Putting code where my mouth is: If you add the line
>
> mw.loader.load('//tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autodesc.js');
>
> to your user subpage at :
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Mypage/common.js
>
> you can see automatic descriptions is your Wikidata search results, both in
> the full search page and in the dropdown preview.
>
> Notes:
> * Hackish demo. May jump in your face at any time.
> * English only, though planned as multi-lingual. In other languages, some
> interface elements will show in English, but most of the actual description
> should be in your language, as available.
> * Automatic description color-highlighted, to distinguish from manual one
> (surprisingly hard in some cases).
> * Two of my test searches are "Dawkins" and "Runaway". Good spread of
> results there.
> * This works /in principle/ also in the edit dropdowns (you will see dummy
> text there), but I can't figure out how the item Q number is encoded in the
> dropdown HTML. A little help or a very minor interface tweak would enable
> the function there as well.
>
> Wikidata techs: Feel free to steal^W build on this code ;-) Hereby GPL or
> whatever else you require.
>
> Enjoy!
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Sven Manguard
> wrote:
>>
>> I agree with all four of those points. As your question, we do not have
>> that type of property yet, and although it might be slightly controversial,
>> I would certainly support it. We would however need monolingual text as a
>> property type before that could happen. Personally I see supporting web
>> addresses as being much more critical on the list of properties for
>> development, is that would dramatically open up our ability to source data.
>> That being said, I really haven't been keeping up with the development
>> schedule, so I have no idea what's in the pileline and in what order.
>>
>> S
>>
>> On Sep 7, 2013 1:44 PM, "Magnus Manske"
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> All valid points, Sven. I would just like to say that
>>> * this is not intended as a replacement or auto-fill for descriptions; it
>>> is to be shown if the manual description is blank (at least, that was my
>>> angle)
>>> * unusual items, like your example, will likely have a manual desription;
>>> the run-of-the-mill millitary person will not
>>> * for many uses, even an imperfect or (through omission) somewhat
>>> misleading description is better than none
>>> * as in your example, a misrepresentation is first and foremost due to
>>> the incompleteness of Wikidata and the properties it offers
>>>
>>> The last one reminds me: is there a "reason for notability" property? In
>>> your example item, the Ft. Hood shootings could be added that way, and then
>>> also show up in the description ("notable for Ft. Hood shooting").
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Sven Manguard
>>> wrote:
This has the potential to work, but we need to be careful that the
descriptions don't only partially represent their subjects. This is
especially difficult with humans, as they are often known for several
things, and occasionally (but in a statistically significant number, I
would
think), known for things that don't fit cleanly into a "[nationality]
[career], born [birth year]" formula. As it exists now, the Wikidata item
on
the Ft. Hood shooter, Nidal Hasan [1], gives his military branch and rank,
his location and place of birth, his gender, and a Commons category. From
that, a bot summary would likely be "American Army major, born 1970". There
would be no indication of his source of notability, the shooting.
What I would recommend is that we start with inanimate objects and get
our bearings on bot-generated descriptions there (celestial objects, video
games, buildings), then move onto the slightly more complicated to define
non-human living things (species of plant, species of animal, species of
creepy-crawly) and geographic locations (rivers, villages/towns/cities,
mountain ranges), and then finally onto humans.
Some things to think about: How do you create a description for a
battleship that saw service with several different navies or a river that
runs through several different countries? How do you create a description
for a country that does not exist anymore or a location that has been
destroyed? How do you create a description for a fictional person, item,
place, etc., when Wikidata does not currently have an effective way of
denoting that something is fictional? It might make sense to use Wikipedia
categories to augment the Wikidata statements.
I think that we should build a few formulas that are... difficult to
screw up. Video games come
