Re: [libraries] Call to arms for librarians

2013-02-19 Thread Andrea Zanni
I tried to be a bit clearer on what are my doubts. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal#Comments_III I still think that we should think before at the purposes of Wikidata pages (eg metadata for infoboxes and templates), and then define the metadata. Because as FRBR teach us the

Re: [libraries] Call to arms for librarians

2013-02-15 Thread David Goodman
All of these are standardized descriptors, which are conventionally used in formal library cataloging, and can easily be determined from standard sources. In some cases, the standard library descriptor conflicts with the general rules in a particular WP for such things as names of people or place

Re: [libraries] Call to arms for librarians - What about citations?

2013-02-14 Thread Laura Quilter
hat's encompassing enough. Thoughts? > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Federico Leva (Nemo) [mailto:nemow...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 2:07 PM > > To: Wikimedia & Libraries > > Subject: Re: [libraries] Call

Re: [libraries] Call to arms for librarians - What about citations?

2013-02-14 Thread Fred Bauder
iting a book, you'd have > > Book (Cite mode) | author, edition, isbn (wikidata property) > > I don't know if that's encompassing enough. Thoughts? > > -Original Message- > From: Federico Leva (Nemo) [mailto:nemow...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, February 11,

Re: [libraries] Call to arms for librarians - What about citations?

2013-02-14 Thread Klein,Max
derico Leva (Nemo) [mailto:nemow...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 2:07 PM To: Wikimedia & Libraries Subject: Re: [libraries] Call to arms for librarians I don't understand if this is or will be in a "poll" phase or not. Also, what exactly should be done about this me

Re: [libraries] Call to arms for librarians

2013-02-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I don't understand if this is or will be in a "poll" phase or not. Also, what exactly should be done about this mess of proposals for item types? 6 Work / Werk / Œuvre 6.1 Creative work / Werk / Œuvre créative 6.1.1 Based on 6.1.2 Creator 6.2 Book / Buch / Livre

Re: [libraries] Call to arms for librarians

2013-02-11 Thread Andrea Zanni
As far as I understood (which could be "nothing"), they are asking for community proposal for "properties", which in the Wikidata data model are the "metadata fields" you can predicate about an item (see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Data_model_primer) I think they are trying to h

Re: [libraries] Call to arms for librarians

2013-02-11 Thread Andrew Gray
On 11 February 2013 09:19, Andrea Zanni wrote: > Hi all, > I just wanted to make you aware that in these days Wikidata has being > launched, and the community is asked to propose schemas and models for > Properties. > For us, I think it would be very important to give a hand to this: > https://www

[libraries] Call to arms for librarians

2013-02-11 Thread Andrea Zanni
Hi all, I just wanted to make you aware that in these days Wikidata has being launched, and the community is asked to propose schemas and models for Properties. For us, I think it would be very important to give a hand to this: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal#Book_.2F_Buch_