Hi Richard,

I think that persons are probably most mature. All humans have instance of (P31) human (Q5) and for some subsets (like artists) a lot properties have a high coverage. Wikidata already connects to a lot of other sources on the web making it a central node for linked open data. For painters I keep track of this at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Paintings_creator_no_authority_control .

For events you probably need subclass of event, see https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/tree.html?lang=en&q=Q1656682&rp=279
For place geographic location is probably the best one, see https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/tree.html?lang=en&q=Q2221906&rp=279

Also take a look at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Visual_arts/Item_structure . We tried to link to external concepts here.

Maarten

Op 30-6-2016 om 12:07 schreef Richard Light:

Lydia,

Thank you for your responses.  I suggest that it would add to the utility of Wikidata entities if their basic type ('person', 'place', 'event', etc.) was explicitly stated in the RDF.

Best wishes,

Richard

On 2016-06-29 4:56 PM, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Richard Light
<richard@light.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Hi,

My view is that, in order for there to be any point in cultural heritage
bodies (museums, libraries, archives, historians) publishing their
collections etc. as Linked Data, there needs to be a common Linked Data
framework representing the historical space-time universe, which they can
all quote.  Current practice (such as the British Museum Linked Data
offering) suggests that concepts such as people, places and events will
otherwise be represented either by useless string values or by
system-specific URLs which have no wider meaning.

As a result, I would like to explore the potential for Wikidata to act as
this lingua franca for the cultural heritage community.

You'll see from my earlier messages to this list that I have been grappling
with the SPARQL end-point. Initially I was confused by the interactive
version of the Query Service [1], which differs in its response format from
the similarly-URLed end-point and doesn't provide an RDF/XML response.  I
have now managed to set up Wikidata as a 'web termlist' service for artists,
within the Modes software (see attached screenshot). (The data in the pop-up
window is generated on the fly from the Wikidata RDF.)

At this point, I have the following questions:

1. what level of stability is planned as regards Wikidata identifiers/URLs?
Can I treat the full URL (e.g.[3]) as persistent, or can I only rely on the
core Wikidata identifier (e.g. [4]) remaining unchanged into the indefinite
future?  (Can I even rely on that?)

Wikidata's IDs are supposed to be stable.


2. what is the policy on inclusivity?  Do entities need to be 'notable' in
some sense to be accepted into Wikidata?  (I'm imagining a research body
wanting to offer very precise place or event data, or someone with the
ambition to include in Wikidata details of any person who ever lived.)

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Notability


3. is there a template for each entity type (e.g. person, place, event)
which guarantees that a query for certain properties will at least identify
entities of the desired type?  (My artist termlist query includes a test '$s
ps:P31 wd:Q5' which picks out humans: I'm not clear how I would do the same
for events or places.)

No that does not exist.


Cheers
Lydia

--
Richard Light 


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