On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
- It is really laborious to add references. Many references are a book a
publication and I give you one example of a book [1]. It takes MUCH more time to add a source than it is to add a statement. The book, the authors they need sources in their own right..
Also, Wikidata has not found a way yet to work with books. Yes, it's relatively easy to create an item for a recent book and populate it with a few statements relatively to the main metadata (author, year of publishing, publisher).
What we don't have is a way to *consistently* work with books (which have often many translations and editions). We cannot import (yet) library catalogs in wikidata[1]. We don't even have a consistent way to link Wikidata to Wikisource (index pages, ns0 pages).
I think this is quite relevant for the reference issue.
Aubrey
[1] there is an ongoing project with the National Library of Florence, in Italy. We now have a script to import records in WIkibase, and will do on a local one. Then we will approach Wikidata.