Hi Fae and Jane,
Thank you both for your quick reply! I can imagine how it all started with paintings and
from a paintings/works-of-art-on-paper perspective the 2D approach is excellent. But with
cups and statues... and museums with very heavy paintings.. You get weird results.
I will try and use a free format and hope maybe someone will consider a more extensive
format for dimensions?
Something like: {{Size|witdh=76.7|unit=cm|height=83.5|unit=cm}} instead of:
{{Size|unit=cm|width=76.7|height=83.5}}?
In the Rijksmuseum case we are not dependant on vendors etc. so we can write XSLT to match
the format Wikimedia prefers.
Thanks for your help and tips and I hope you don't mind my questions!
Best wishes
Lizzy
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On 11 September 2015 at 10:43, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
...
Here is a painting that I was viewing a few minutes
ago:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:De_molen_bij_Wijk_bij_Duursted
e_Rijksmuseum_SK-C-211.jpeg
Hey, I uploaded that. :-)
My approach to these initial Rijks uploads was to just get on with it and worry about
format fixes later. Our templates do not handle arrays in a parameter, but that is
effectively what we are attempting to do with dimensions against artworks. Though
paintings have height and width, I have handled other objects such as statues or ancient
artefacts, where there may be many key dimensions to describe, such as the diameter of a
cup along with the width of its base.
I suggest using the free format of the parameter to add dimensions in a consistent way. It
can always be unpicked and reformatted later.
If wikidata can resolve this, some interesting questions could be asked later on, such as
automatically identifying miniatures, or life size statues of people.
Fae
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