Hi Kingsley, Sorry for the newbie question but I don't really get what the page you linked to should ideally output. Could you explain what is wrong in this and what would be the good behavior for those 3 to collaborate smoothly? (or link to any article explicating this)
Thanks in advance! Maxime Lathuilière maxlath.eu <http://maxlath.eu> @maxlath Zorglub27 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Zorglub27> Contributions <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Zorglub27> Le 13/03/2014 13:18, Kingsley Idehen a écrit : > On 3/10/14 3:08 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: >> Hi Maxime! >> >> Have a look at<http://musicbrainz.org/>, it uses structured data, is >> freely >> licensed, and they are very interested in integrating with Wikidata. >> >> While Wikidata has finer granularity than Wikipedia, as far as I know >> you would >> not be able to include just any piece by any artist. MusicBrainz's >> scope is >> probably better suited for your project. >> >> However, why only use one Database? Ideally, if there is a Wikidata >> item about >> some entry on MusicBrainz, these would be linked to each other using the >> appropriate properties. So, you could search MusicBrains and include >> information >> from Wikidata if it is available (or vice versa). > > Daniel, > > In the light of your comments above, why can't Wikidata, Freebase, and > DBpedia cross-reference is a natural way. All I see right now are the > following, which I find suboptimal, for all the wrong reasons: > > 1. Wikidata cross references Freebase > 2. Freebase cross references Wikidata > 3. DBpedia cross references both, but makes bridge URIs in the DBpedia > namespace to achieve this, in regards to Wikidata. > > 1-3 isn't how this should be working out on the Web of Linked Data. > > Links: > > [1] http://bit.ly/1lZyKy3 -- simple example of my claims re., an > inability (for all the wrong reasons) for these projects to collaborate > effectively (just follow-your-nose by clicking any of the links in the > page to which this URI resolves). > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
