I have prepared a book with several editions in Wikidata so you can get the feeling of what the structure looks like http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6911
It is based on the set of properties described at the Books Task Force page, which are supposed to be inter-operable with the Wikipedia infobox (each language wikipedia will be able to feature a different edition as soon as arbitrary item access is available), Wikisource and Commons. http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Books_task_force
The "edition items" in Wikidata could in turn be connected to the new BookManagerv2 extension that Molly is preparing for her GsoC: http://www.mollywhite.net/blog/?p=87 http://tools.wmflabs.org/bookmanagerv2/wiki/Book:The_Interpretation_of_Dream...
What is your opinion of these advances? Do you think they are heading in the right direction?
If you could pass the information to your local Wikisource, it would be great to have some feedback about potential problems, and to know what is the perception of each project about it.
Thanks! Micru
On 08/22/2013 07:37 PM, David Cuenca wrote:
What is your opinion of these advances? Do you think they are heading in the right direction?
Yes, so far it looks good. How would you handle a more complex work with more complex relationships?
One example is Harry Potter, which is a series of seven novels, where individual parts might (?) have different translators but still constitute a series in each language. Does your model contain a part-of-series relationship?
Here is another one, with different editions, titles, and volumes, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brehms_Tierleben
Any work by Shakespeare (e.g. Hamlet) would also be a good test case, since it has many translations into each language.
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