Dear all,
I asked myself a series of questions about the links between Wikidata and
other knowledge/data bases, namely those of OCLC and DBpedia. For example:
- Why Wikidata has no property "Worldcat Identities
<http://worldcat.org/identities/>" while the English edition of Wikipedia
systematically mentions this identity (when it exists) in its section
"Autorithy control" ?
- Why do VIAF links to all editions of Wikipedia, but not (simply) to
Wikidata ?
- Why is there no link to DBpedia when the opposite is true ?
These questions may seem very different from each other, but they
ultimately concern a common subject and are all very basic. I suspect they
had to be discussed somewhere, maybe at the dawn of Wikidata. However, I
find nothing in the archives of this Newsletter, nor in the discussions on
Wikidata.
Could someone point me to some documentation on these issues ?
Cheers,
Ettore Rizza