Hi Marco,
I agree that many of these lists and tables could be harvested (with
some care, of course).
However, I don't think that the information they contain should go to
the Wikidata item they are associated with. This Wikidata item mostly
exists to store inter-language links, but is poorly connected to the
rest of the knowledge graph. This tax revenue and GDP information should
go to the country items themselves.
I am working on the problem of extraction of statements from lists and
tables and will write a tutorial when the tools are ready. WikidataCon
attendees might have a glimpse of that in this session:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Submissions/OpenRef…
Cheers,
Antonin
On 17/10/2017 12:07, Marco Neumann wrote:
I have noticed a lack of actual data in wikidata
representations of
wikipedia list.
for example
List of countries by tax revenue to GDP ratio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_to_GDP_ratio
to
List of countries by tax revenue as percentage of GDP (Q2529105)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2529105
is there currently a development in the wikidata community to
transform these lists into wikibase items and last but not least
produce RDF respresentations for WDQS?
best,
Marco