> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:57:34 +0100
> From: jeblad@gmail.com
> To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikidata-l] Import from external sources
>
> sources, especially those that do not have any prepared an
> well-defined API?
>
> A rather simple example from the website for Statistics Norway is an
> article on a website like this
> http://www.ssb.no/fobstud/
> and a table like this
> http://www.ssb.no/fobstud/tab-2002-11-21-02.html
>
> In that example you must follow a link to a new page which you then
> must monitor for changes. Inside that page you can use Xpath to to
> extract a field, and then optionally use something like a regexp to
> identify and split fields. As an alternate solution you might use XLT
> to transform the whole page.
>
> Anyhow, this can quite easily be formulated both as a parser function
> and a tag function.
>
> At the same site there is something called "Statistikkbanken"
> (http://statbank.ssb.no/statistikkbanken/) where you can (must) log on
> and then iterate through a sequence of pages.
>
> Similar data as in the previous example can be found in
> http://statbank.ssb.no/statistikkbanken/selectvarval/Define.asp?MainTable=FoBKhtab12III&SubjectCode=02&planguage=0&nvl=True&mt=1&nyTmpVar=true
> But it is very difficult to formulate a kind of click-sequence inside that page.
>
> Any idea? Some kind of click-sequence recording?
>
> Statistics Norway publish statistics about Norway for free reuse as
> long as they are credited as appropriate.
> http://www.ssb.no/english/help/
>
> John
>
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