Hello, Coming back on my previous email, I do indeed understand that Wikidata wants structured data as much as possible. But you might have free-text information that might not fit in a given property or even have meaning only as a free -text description (abstract, quotes..).GLAM's are for instance very keen on using DBpedia because of some long free-text descriptions that are more readable and friendly than "dry" metadata for users applications. I guess GLAMs will continue to use DBpedia for this purpose if Wikidata doesn't offer it.
Best, Valentine 2015-04-01 23:51 GMT+02:00 Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk>: > Hi Valentine, > > The long, chatty, free-text descriptive element of Wikidata is really > Wikipedia ;-) > > There is a small free-text field in Wikidata for each item (the > description, one per language) but it's intended for a short > identifying/disambiguating note: "1887 self-portrait by XYZ"; "Danish > artist and historian, 1912-1974", etc. > > Dimensions are, I believe, being worked on. > > Andrew. > > On 1 April 2015 at 08:20, Valentine Charles <valentine...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Thank you all for your answers. I will have a look to the different > projects > > you have mentioned in your emails. > > In the meantime I have spent a bit more time exploring Wikidata for > > paintings as one of our project currently focuses on Art and comparing it > > with the Europeana Data Model in terms of properties. I have noticed the > > absence of some properties and I would be curious whether it is just an > > overlook or whether there is a real intention behind the omission: > > > > -Cultural Heritage data have most of the time a description property > where > > you will find lot of relevant free text information. The structured > property > > but inside you will find mostly free- text. I couldn't find a similar > > property in Wikidata but there is something similar in Dbpedia. Is it > > something you are planning to introduce or have you made the decision to > > exclude any free-text infromation from Wikidata for now. > > > > -While I was looking for painting in Wikidata I also noticed the absence > of > > information related to the size/dimension of the Artwork. The > information is > > most of the time present in Cultural Heritage data. Is it something > Wikidata > > is interested in or has it been omitted intentionally? > > > > -Then the last question is about values in different languages for a > given > > property. How do you indicate the language in Wikidata? Are you using a > > xml:lang attribute or something similar? > > > > Thank you very much for your help > > > > Best, > > > > Valentine > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikidata-l mailing list > > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > > > > > -- > - Andrew Gray > andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >
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