Hi Josephine and all,

On 23-07-2020 11:25, Josephine Lim wrote:
> Wikidata would be the easiest for us as we already have Wikidata
> integration, however we are definitely open to using the monuments
> database if the community reaches a consensus that that is the best
> choice of data source.

I consider the monuments database legacy. I wouldn't build new things on
top of it. If countries want their monuments to be visible in the
Commons app (and other places), they should invest time into migrating
to Wikidata.

I would like to strongly +1 what Maarten said, as current/ex co-maintainer of the monuments database.

We have tried our best so that the tools already built on top of the monuments database keep running ; but new things should not be built on it.

(While there is some support for harvesting Wikidata datasets into the monuments database, that was only ever meant to ease transition to Wikidata for folks highly dependent on legacy tooling (such as ErfgoedBot)).

Finally, there have been reports of the monuments DB harvesting behaving weirdly ; and neither André nor I have the capacity to look into it. In short, at the moment, I can offer little guarantee that the monuments DB would actually be up to date.

Cheers,
--
Jean-Fred