On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Daniel Kinzler < daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de> wrote:
I think it would be cool to use http://mappings.dbpedia.org/ - it already has mappings for hundreds of templates in different language versions to the dbpedia vocabulary. If we added a mapping for wikidata <-> dbpedia, it should be easy enough to derive a mapping between a wikipedia template and wikidata. Actually, I was under the impression the wikidata <-> dbpedia already existed, but I don't see it on the site right now. Adding Anja Jentzsch, she might know.
Even if it proves too tricky to map individual template parameters this way, it should still be possible to at least detect the class (instanceof) of an item based on the templates the respective wikipedia page contains. We should definitely map dpedia classes to wikidata items.
Sergey Skovorodkin is working on a dbpedia<->wikidata mapping as a GsoC for DBpedia this year https://github.com/dbpedia/extraction-framework/wiki/GSoC-2014-Progress-Serg...
I'm CCing him to see if he can report the status or if he might need help with our properties, maybe we are missing some or need to clarify some others. Sometimes we are using qualifiers to extend properties instead of creating new ones.
Cheers, Micru