On 3 January 2013 00:06, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 January 2013 at 11:32, Dan Brickley wrote:
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 (http://schema.org) vocabulary? I'd love to see all this structured information accessible via the likes of wikidata/dbpedia/freebase.
Much as I'd like it to be the case that Wikipedia embraced RDFa and the web of linked data, it seems unlikely at the moment.
I thought Dan meant RDFa on the BBC website.
Besides, we've had microformat markup in our infoobxes since 2007 - and that's extractable, via third-party sites such as http://any23.org/, as JSON, RDF, etc.
I'm hoping that Wikidata might ease the Wikimedia community in to trying the very tasty Semantic Web Kool-Aid®.
It's going to be long, hard slog. Just look at some of the rubbish spouted about metadata by those opposed to using infoboxes in articles.
VIAF was a first, initial stab towards richly linking Wikipedia together with other linked data on the web. Hopefully it won't be the last.
A major, important and welcome step - but not the first. I've previously written and deployed templates to link articles to OpenCorprates, OpenDomesday:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:OpenCorp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:OpenDomesday
which reciprocate the links, and which are linked data sites; as is OpenPlaques, for which there is also a template:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Openplaque
and (mentioned for completeness) OpenStreetMap, linked indirctly via our coordinates templates.
To facilitate further discussion and development, I have just created, and am populating, [[Category:External link templates to linked data sites with reciprocal links]]:
Finally, please also note WikiProject_Unique_Identifiers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Unique_Identifiers
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk