Hello, 

Coming back on my previous email, I do indeed understand that Wikidata wants structured data as much as possible. But you might have free-text information that might not fit in a given property or even have meaning only as a free -text description (abstract, quotes..).GLAM's are for instance very keen on using DBpedia because of some long free-text descriptions that are more readable and friendly than "dry" metadata for users applications. I guess GLAMs will continue to use DBpedia for this purpose if Wikidata doesn't offer it. 

Best, 
Valentine 

2015-04-01 23:51 GMT+02:00 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk>:
Hi Valentine,

The long, chatty, free-text descriptive element of Wikidata is really
Wikipedia ;-)

There is a small free-text field in Wikidata for each item (the
description, one per language) but it's intended for a short
identifying/disambiguating note: "1887 self-portrait by XYZ"; "Danish
artist and historian, 1912-1974", etc.

Dimensions are, I believe, being worked on.

Andrew.

On 1 April 2015 at 08:20, Valentine Charles <valentinec89@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Thank you all for your answers. I will have a look to the different projects
> you have mentioned in your emails.
> In the meantime I have spent a bit more time exploring Wikidata for
> paintings as one of our project currently focuses on Art and comparing it
> with the Europeana Data Model in terms of properties. I have noticed the
> absence of some properties and I would be curious whether it is just an
> overlook or whether there is a real intention behind the omission:
>
> -Cultural Heritage data have most of the time a description property where
> you will find lot of relevant free text information. The structured property
> but inside you will find mostly free- text. I couldn't find a similar
> property in Wikidata but there is something similar in Dbpedia. Is it
> something you are planning to introduce or have you made the decision to
> exclude any free-text infromation from Wikidata for now.
>
> -While I was looking for painting in Wikidata I also noticed the absence of
> information related to the size/dimension of the Artwork. The information is
> most of the time present in Cultural Heritage data. Is it something Wikidata
> is interested in or has it been omitted intentionally?
>
> -Then the last question is about values in different languages for a given
> property. How do you indicate the language in Wikidata? Are you using a
> xml:lang attribute or something similar?
>
> Thank you very much for your help
>
> Best,
>
> Valentine
>
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