Moreover:
yes, it seems that right now VIAF takes its Wikipedia links from Wikidata.
ex.
http://rdap02pxdu.dev.oclc.org:8080/viaf/14356/#Manzoni,_Alessandro,_1785-1873
.
(see #About)
But this is a "Person" page.
We know that in Wikidata we have tons of VIAF ids for persons.
What about "Books"?
How
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Andy Mabbett
wrote:
> >> I'm not particularly surprised on this, since the Wikimedia Foundation
> never
> >> does nothing to help "sister" projects
>
> What does this have to do with WMF? OCLC are independent actors,
> reusing Wikidata content as anyone may do,
On 29 March 2015 at 02:06, Daniel Mietchen
wrote:
> I agree with Andy's comment on the blog post that it doesn't really
> make sense for VIAF to store all the Wikipedia links to a given topic
> - that's what Wikidata is already really good at.
Thanks or copying me in, Daniel.
I've now subscrrib
Daniel Mietchen, 29/03/2015 03:06:
So I assume that it would be best for VIAF to only link to the
corresponding Wikidata item, from where all relevant pages across
Wikimedia projects and languages can be reached.
Indeed. That's what I thought they would be doing...
Nemo
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I agree with Andy's comment on the blog post that it doesn't really
make sense for VIAF to store all the Wikipedia links to a given topic
- that's what Wikidata is already really good at.
So I assume that it would be best for VIAF to only link to the
corresponding Wikidata item, from where all rel
There isn't reason to celebrate, unfortunately.
The blog post mentions only Wikipedia links. And, in fact, doing a search
on test.viaf.org, you will get only records containing links to Wikipedia.
See for example the JSON formated record for Jane Austen:
http://rdap02pxdu.dev.oclc.org:8080/viaf/
From the Wikidata weekly newsletter, I was led to the VIAF blog
post[1] which talks about how VIAF is going to re-orientate their
linking from English Wikipedia to Wikidata. This should have a
positive effect for the Wikisources in general, and non-English WSes
especially, in making more overt the
