On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Ed Summers <e...@pobox.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if anyone had any advice for mapping a set of Freebase > identifiers to WikiData identifiers. I’m looking to port over a few thousand > entities in use in an application since Freebase is going to be shut off next > month. > > My apologies if this is a rudimentary question. I took a quick look at the > API [1] and didn’t see an obvious way of doing it. Or is the WikiData Query > API [2] a better fit for this? I was able to figure out how to do a lookup > based on the FreebaseID, > > https://wdq.wmflabs.org/api?q=string[646:'/m/04hcw'] > > Any tips or pointers would be appreciated.
To do this you want to either use Wikidata Query, which you already found, or work on dumps. More about them at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
