Another side of the question you brought up is how to treat a map collection/series vs a sheet. We need a practice for this. You could probably describe how it is currently handled in Commons.
Susanna 2014-09-04 8:21 GMT+03:00 Susanna Ånäs <[email protected]>: > Hi James, > > Your questions are to the point. We would need to address the wider > communities in Wikidata and Commons about this. It's a chicken and egg > question that will keep us occupied unless we find a way to deal with it > while waiting for the practices to settle. > > My question is: What is the advantage of making a notability divide in > maps? For all that I know, maps are copyright protected materials. > > Susanna > > > 2014-09-04 1:25 GMT+03:00 James Heald <[email protected]>: > > Just to add, a similar question is where a map is split over several >> sheets, that have been individually scanned, eg >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/tags/sysnum000307469 >> >> or the map of London over pages 8 to 26 of >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:District_ >> Railway_Guide_to_London_%281888%29 >> >> -- should each sheet have a separate Q-number? Or, if each sheet does >> not have its own Q-number, does that mean that at least sometimes we need >> to store bounding-box information on Commons ? >> >> -- James. >> >> >> >> >> On 03/09/2014 22:57, James Heald wrote: >> >>> At the IRC hour on Structured Data for Commons tonight, >>> (log: >>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2014/ >>> wikimedia-office.2014-09-03-18.00.log.html >>> ) >>> >>> Susanna gave the link to the impressive Wikimaps metadata spreadsheet, >>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hn8VQ1rBgXj3avkUktjychEhluLQQ >>> Jl5v6WRlI0LJho/edit#gid=0 >>> >>> >>> but this made me wonder: is every single map notable, in the sense of >>> meriting its own Wikidata Q-number ? >>> >>> >>> For example, consider >>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:England_ >>> Delineated_%281800%29_by_John_Aikin >>> >>> >>> a set of fairly simple sketch maps of English counties, published in a >>> schoolbook in 1790. >>> >>> >>> Should each map individually have a Q-number ? Or instead, should just >>> the book and the edition have Q-numbers ? >>> >>> >>> The question is similar to that of books of engravings, such as eg >>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Views_of_the_ >>> Seats_of_Noblemen_and_Gentlemen_in_England,_Wales,_ >>> Scotland_and_Ireland_%281818%29 >>> >>> >>> Should each engraving have an individual Q-number ? Or instead, just >>> the book and the edition, with details specific to the individual >>> engraving (of which we may have more than one scan) kept on the >>> CommonsData page for the file ? >>> >>> >>> For maps there is some clear per-map metadata, even when they are part >>> of a set -- for example location, bounding boxes, etc. >>> >>> Is it right to assume that there will always be a WikiData item for this >>> to live in? Or in some cases, would it have to live on CommonsData? And >>> will a copy of it need to live on CommonsData anyway, to facilitate >>> rapid sorting / filtering of a collection of images ? >>> >>> >>> Have there been any discussions that we know of in the Wikidata >>> community about this? >>> >>> -- James. >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimaps mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimaps >> > > > > -- > *Susanna Ånäs *Käyttäjä:Susannaanas > Wikimedia Suomi <http://wikimedia.fi/> – Wikimaps > <http://wikimaps.wikimedia.fi/> – GLAM > <http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM> > @ <https://twitter.com/WMFinland>WMFinland <https://twitter.com/WMFinland> > / Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaSuomi> / Liity jäseneksi! > <http://fi.wikimedia.org/wiki/Liity_j%C3%A4seneksi> > -- *Susanna Ånäs *Käyttäjä:Susannaanas Wikimedia Suomi <http://wikimedia.fi/> – Wikimaps <http://wikimaps.wikimedia.fi/> – GLAM <http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM> @ <https://twitter.com/WMFinland>WMFinland <https://twitter.com/WMFinland> / Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaSuomi> / Liity jäseneksi! <http://fi.wikimedia.org/wiki/Liity_j%C3%A4seneksi>
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