As far as I understood (which could be "nothing"), they are asking for community proposal for "properties", which in the Wikidata data model are the "metadata fields" you can predicate about an item (see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Data_model_primer)
I think they are trying to have a data model for "books" in general, which would be use (probably) for both infoboxes about books (e.g. "en:Pride and prejudice" infobox) and sources (eg Citeweb templates). But I'm just guessing, I don't know it for sure, I'm confused as you do :-) Aubrey PS: I've also found this: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Infoboxes_task_force/works#Work_of_literature_.2F_Literarisches_Werk_.2F_.C5.92uvre_litt.C3.A9raire On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Andrew Gray <[email protected]>wrote: > On 11 February 2013 09:19, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I just wanted to make you aware that in these days Wikidata has being > > launched, and the community is asked to propose schemas and models for > > Properties. > > For us, I think it would be very important to give a hand to this: > > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal#Book_.2F_Buch_.2F_Livre > > > > I don't understand well how Wikidata works, we're atill at the early > stages, > > but IMHO it would be great for librarians and wikipedians to work > directly > > on that book model. Wikidata should be interoperable with major metadata > > schemas, in a way or another. > > Thanks for the pointer. I'm a little confused by quite what's being > aimed for with the datatype here. > > Are they planning to use it to represent Wikipedia articles (which are > almost all on a work level, sometimes on an item level - eg > manuscripts, but very rarely an edition level), or to represent > "sources" in citations (usually a specific edition rather than a work > or an item)? > > -- > - Andrew Gray > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >
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