On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 6:52 PM Luca Martinelli [Sannita] martinelliluca@gmail.com wrote:
Il giorno mer 26 mag 2021 alle ore 17:52 Mateusz Malinowski bohopicasso@gmail.com ha scritto:
Is there anyone who knows more about this project? It looks like Mix'n'match tool.
Mateusz is referring to:
Development
- Designing and planning for the first version of a tool to compare
Wikidata's data against other databases and find mismatches that might need fixing
Sorry, doing this because I didn't understand at first what project he was referring to, so I thought this might be useful also for other people :)
L.
Thanks Luca!
The tool we've been digging into for quite a while now is different from MixnMatch. MixnMatch is meant to help you connect an entry in a catalog with its corresponding Wikidata Item. Once you found the corresponding Item a new external identifier statement can be added to the Item to store this connection permanently. Having these connections is a very very useful base for what we're looking into now. The tool we are envisioning is meant to find the cases where the actual data in an Item does not match the data in another database that also has an entry on it and then help editors to resolve those mismatches. A concrete example would be a person with a date of birth on their Item in Wikidata. They also have an entry in the German National Library. Now we can potentially look at the date of birth in the person's entry in the German National Library and compare it to the date of birth Wikidata has. If they don't match someone should probably have a look at it and see where the problem is and potentially fix it. This is however not a trivial thing and we're still figuring out how exactly it will work so things might shift a bit in the coming weeks.
Cheers Lydia