As far as I understood (which could be "nothing"), they are asking for
community proposal
for "properties", which in the Wikidata data model are the "metadata
fields" you can predicate about an item (see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Data_model_primer)
I think they are trying to have a data model for "books" in general, which
would be use (probably) for both infoboxes about books (e.g. "en:Pride and
prejudice" infobox) and sources (eg Citeweb templates).
But I'm just guessing, I don't know it for sure, I'm confused as you do :-)
Aubrey
PS: I've also found this:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Infoboxes_task_force/works#Work_of_l…
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk>wrote;wrote:
On 11 February 2013 09:19, Andrea Zanni
<zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I just wanted to make you aware that in these days Wikidata has being
launched, and the community is asked to propose schemas and models for
Properties.
For us, I think it would be very important to give a hand to this:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal#Book_.2F_Buch_.2F_…
I don't understand well how Wikidata works, we're atill at the early
stages,
but IMHO it would be great for librarians and
wikipedians to work
directly
on that book model. Wikidata should be
interoperable with major metadata
schemas, in a way or another.
Thanks for the pointer. I'm a little confused by quite what's being
aimed for with the datatype here.
Are they planning to use it to represent Wikipedia articles (which are
almost all on a work level, sometimes on an item level - eg
manuscripts, but very rarely an edition level), or to represent
"sources" in citations (usually a specific edition rather than a work
or an item)?
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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