On 7 September 2017 at 20:16, john cummings <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I guess this question for me is how do we do this in
practice? How do we
make sure Wikidata stays up to date/synced with external databases we think
are important?
At least part of that solution has to be to get the maintainers of
those external databases involved - we have an API, and they can use
it to update items, programmatically, if they store Wikidata IDs in
their data (or if we have a third identifier in common).
OCLC (who manage VIAF) are doing this, as are Quora (not just for
people), and others are beginning to show interest,
Digital signing of statements, when it is enabled, will encourage
them, by demonstrating that their contributions will be respected and
valued.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk