Hi, I like the idea of creating collections. However 'official' federated Wikibase-powered instances and assigning them an external identifier can be another approach. This permits other instances to grow independently and leaves the choice to store only key (community-decided) information on Wikidata. Thus Wikidata still plays a major role in the discoverability of external federated instances.
Best, John Samuel On Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 12:30:56 AM UTC+1, dtaraborelli wrote: > > Hey all, > > I'd like to hear from you on a proposal to add some order and structure to > the various bibliographic corpora we currently have in Wikidata. > > As you may know, coverage of creative works in Wikidata has seen > significant growth over the last year. [1][2] Different groups and projects > have started importing source metadata for various reasons: > > - to provide sources machine-extracted statements (WikiFactMine [3], > StrepHit [4]) > - to represent sources cited in Wikipedia (e.g. DOIs and PMIDs > imported via the mwcite identifier dumps) or other Wikimedia projects > (Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikinews) > - to create collections of the open access literature citable and > reusable in Wikimedia projects (e.g. open access PMC review articles) > - to maintain small, curated corpora about specific topics (e.g. the > Zika corpus [5]) > > While all these efforts have grown organically and with little > coordination, it's hard to keep track of who initiated the, to clearly > communicate their purpose, to understand their completion criteria and > their data quality needs, and last but not least to offer any contribution > opportunities (in terms of code, or manual labor) to other community > members. It's unclear if the future of these efforts should continue to be > within Wikidata, or leverage the power of federated Wikibase-powered wikis > (see our discussion at the end of the WikiCite session at WikidataCon [6]). > Irrespective of the best long term solution, we need to provide some better > structure to these efforts today if we want to address the above problems. > > I'd like to propose a fairly simple solution and hear your feedback on > whether it makes sense to implement it as is or with some modifications. > > 1. create a Wikidata class called "Wikidata item collection" [Q-X] > 2. create and document individual collections (e.g. the Wikidata Zika > corpus [Q-Y]) as instances of this class: [Q-Y] --P31--> [Q-X] > 3. add appropriate metadata to describe such collections (its main > topic(s), creators, any external identifiers, if applicable) > 4. mark individual bibliographic items as part of [P361] the > corresponding collections > > Note that this approach can apply to bibliographic item collections but > also to any other set of items not directly identifiable via Wikidata > properties. Of course, the same items could obviously be part of multiple > collections. Some criteria would be needed to determine an appropriate > threshold for legitimate collections (we wouldn't want arbitrary > collections to be created for sets of items generated as part of a test > import). > > Beyond solving the issues listed above, this approach would also allow us > to generate dedicated statistics on the growth or data quality of each > collection via the SPARQL endpoint. It would also allow us to design > constraints for arbitrary item collections, something that right now is > not possible (unless these sets can already be identified via a query). > > If something similar already exists in the context of structured data > donations/imports for GLAM, I'd be most grateful for any pointers. > > Dario > > > [1] http://wikicite.org/statistics.html > [2] https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5548591.v1 > [3] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/ContentMine/WikiFactMine > [4] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References/Renewal > [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Zika_Corpus > [6] > https://mirror.netcologne.de/CCC/events/wikidatacon/2017/h264-hd/wikidatacon2017-10009-eng-WikiCite_Wikidata_as_a_structured_repository_of_bibliographic_data_hd.mp4 >
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