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(a)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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