(I'm copying Paul from the BBC here, as I believe he worked on the
Your Paintings site)
On 1 January 2013 23:06, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Happy new year all!
I'll be brief: last year, the BBC put a lot of digitised paintings online:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/
For the GLAM list (cultural-partners), I made a list of artist links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Your_Paintings
Charles suggested it might be of interest to this list.
Great to see this all coming together :) Do you have any feeling for
how many of the paintings in the collection might themselves also have
Wikipedia entries? Or be suitably notable candidates, if such pages
don't exist?
Anyway this is really just a quick mail to ask: is there any prospect
that this enriched metadata linking Your Painting author IDs to
Wikipedia could find it's way back into the original BBC pages too?
Ideally marked up in RDFa with
schema.org vocabulary? I'd love to see
all this structured information accessible via the likes of
wikidata/dbpedia/freebase.
Paul - is there any prospect that e.g. a link to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_la_Abad%C3%ADa_the_elder might be
added to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/juan-de-la-the-elder-abadia
and so on using the data in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Your_Paintings?
Dan