Something that I thought about when going over this is citations. What property type - if any - are Citations?
Ususally a citation is not fundamental to an article. It's very possible that two different language will cite one article differently. Yet in the cases that either a) two languages share a citation, or b) there is a "seminal" work on the topic, it might be worth having a Citation property to point to in Wikidata.
What's the best way to handle this? I would think that you could have a citation datatype which is a "Pair" the first part of the pair, is the mode of the citation, and the second half would be another wikidata-property. So if you were citing a book, you'd have
Book (Cite mode) | author, edition, isbn (wikidata property)
I don't know if that's encompassing enough. Thoughts?
-----Original Message----- From: Federico Leva (Nemo) [mailto:nemowiki@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 2:07 PM To: Wikimedia & Libraries Subject: Re: [libraries] Call to arms for librarians
I don't understand if this is or will be in a "poll" phase or not. Also, what exactly should be done about this mess of proposals for item types?
6 Work / Werk / Œuvre ...
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