great I will be on site as well, so we will have a little more time to
discuss this in detail.

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Antonin Delpeuch (lists)
<lists@antonin.delpeuch.eu> wrote:
> 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/OpenRefine_demo
>
> 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
>>
>
>
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