(I'm copying Paul from the BBC here, as I believe he worked on the Your Paintings site)
On 1 January 2013 23:06, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
Happy new year all!
I'll be brief: last year, the BBC put a lot of digitised paintings online: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/
For the GLAM list (cultural-partners), I made a list of artist links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Your_Paintings
Charles suggested it might be of interest to this list.
Great to see this all coming together :) Do you have any feeling for how many of the paintings in the collection might themselves also have Wikipedia entries? Or be suitably notable candidates, if such pages don't exist?
Anyway this is really just a quick mail to ask: is there any prospect that this enriched metadata linking Your Painting author IDs to Wikipedia could find it's way back into the original BBC pages too? Ideally marked up in RDFa with schema.org vocabulary? I'd love to see all this structured information accessible via the likes of wikidata/dbpedia/freebase.
Paul - is there any prospect that e.g. a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_la_Abad%C3%ADa_the_elder might be added to http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/juan-de-la-the-elder-abadia and so on using the data in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Your_Paintings?
Dan