Hi all,
I'd need help on the Wikidata/Wikibase reconciliation service for
OpenRefine.
Context: I have my own Wikibase and WDQS instances in production, and I
want to set up a reconciliation service on top of it, so that users can
perform matchings from their local OpenRefine. I'm using the same tool as
Wikidata, i.e.
https://github.com/wetneb/openrefine-wikibase. The web
service works fine, I can reconcile strings in OpenRefine against the data
stored in my Wikibase instance...
Issue: But there is a noteworthy difference compared to how the
Wikidata reconciliation service works:
- with Wikidata, i.e. by using the web service URL with the "en" language
prefix (
https://tools.wmflabs.org/openrefine-wikidata/en/api), I am able to
find matches among labels in any other language of a Wikidata item. For
instance, if I send a request for "Jacopo de Fazio", which is an alias in
French and Italian for Q313460 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313460>,
OpenRefine will match Q313460 as expected, even if I'm using the "en"
language code in the web service url.
- Whereas in my own instance, i.e. by using my own "openrefine-wikibase"
reconciliation service, it can only perform matching of labels/aliases in
the same language: e.g. if I use "
https://my-service.org/openrefine-wikidata/en/api"quot;, the web service only
searches for labels in English in my Wikibase. This means that I am forced
to launch the reconciliation process in OpenRefine for every single
language, one by one.
I do not know how the Wikidata reconciliation service is able to take into
account all the labels/aliases in all the languages of a given Wikidata
item. The data is modeled in the same way in Wikidata and in my Wikibase,
and I do not see any difference between the two in the way the RDF data is
structured into the respective triplestores...
How can I enable the same behaviour as in the Wikidata reconciliation
service? (i.e. to look for labels/aliases in every languages in one API
call)
This would heavily improve the reconciliation process in OpenRefine for my
users.
Thanks a lot for your help!
Régis