Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

2013-08-12 Thread Tom Morris
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Andrew Gray wrote:

>
> On Monday, 12 August 2013, Tom Morris wrote:
>
>>
>> Is it intentional to restrict the definition to personal pseudonyms?
>>  That doesn't cover all uses of them  For example, there are house
>> pseudonyms used by publishing houses which are associated with a series and
>> the publishing house contracts with writers to write effectively
>> anonymously (although it's often known who they are).
>>
>> Another example of a relatively well known collective pseudonym is
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki  There's a whole category
>> of them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Collective_pseudonyms
>>
> Cases like this - where the pseudonym is a (collective) entity in itself -
> would seem to be a good case for "member of" relationships - Henri Cartan
> [is a member of] Nicholas Bourbaki as John Lennon [is a member of] the
> Beatles.
>
> A free-text pseudonym for each of the Bourbaki authors would mean there's
> no easy way to connect them to that other element in future.
>

That seems reasonable.  Perhaps it would be worthwhile updating the
property description for pseudonym to point people in the right direction
so they don't make that mistake.

Tom
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Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

2013-08-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi,
When an item is a member of a list, the item is likely to be written
differently dependent on the language and script. When there is a
"free-text" referral, it loses its flexibility ... eg 靈高史達 is a member of
the Beatles  obviously 
Thanks,
  Gerard


On 12 August 2013 11:44, Andrew Gray  wrote:

> Cases like this - where the pseudonym is a (collective) entity in itself -
> would seem to be a good case for "member of" relationships - Henri Cartan
> [is a member of] Nicholas Bourbaki as John Lennon [is a member of] the
> Beatles.
>
> A free-text pseudonym for each of the Bourbaki authors would mean there's
> no easy way to connect them to that other element in future.
>
> Andrew.
>
>
> On Monday, 12 August 2013, Tom Morris wrote:
>
>>
>> Is it intentional to restrict the definition to personal pseudonyms?
>>  That doesn't cover all uses of them  For example, there are house
>> pseudonyms used by publishing houses which are associated with a series and
>> the publishing house contracts with writers to write effectively
>> anonymously (although it's often known who they are).
>>
>> Another example of a relatively well known collective pseudonym is
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki  There's a whole category
>> of them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Collective_pseudonyms
>>
>> Tom
>>
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Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

2013-08-12 Thread Andrew Gray
Cases like this - where the pseudonym is a (collective) entity in itself -
would seem to be a good case for "member of" relationships - Henri Cartan
[is a member of] Nicholas Bourbaki as John Lennon [is a member of] the
Beatles.

A free-text pseudonym for each of the Bourbaki authors would mean there's
no easy way to connect them to that other element in future.

Andrew.

On Monday, 12 August 2013, Tom Morris wrote:

>
> Is it intentional to restrict the definition to personal pseudonyms?  That
> doesn't cover all uses of them  For example, there are house pseudonyms
> used by publishing houses which are associated with a series and the
> publishing house contracts with writers to write effectively anonymously
> (although it's often known who they are).
>
> Another example of a relatively well known collective pseudonym is
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki  There's a whole category
> of them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Collective_pseudonyms
>
> Tom
>


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Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

2013-08-12 Thread Luca Martinelli
Il giorno 12/ago/2013 05:26, "Tom Morris"  ha scritto:

> Is it intentional to restrict the definition to personal pseudonyms?
 That doesn't cover all uses of them  For example, there are house
pseudonyms used by publishing houses which are associated with a series and
the publishing house contracts with writers to write effectively
anonymously (although it's often known who they are).
>
> Another example of a relatively well known collective pseudonym is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki  There's a whole category of
them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Collective_pseudonyms
>
> Tom

Well, quite intentional. I am perfectly aware that collective pseudonyms
exist: one of the most important Italian writer is in fact a collective of
writers, that started as "Luther Blissett", and that is now known as "Wu
Ming".

However the property does not - was not intended to - address those
articles. It is reserved, so to say, to actors or writers or musicians who
have a stage name and a real name, like Nicholas Cage or P.Diddy, in order
to treat their pseudonym as a data.

Luca "Sannita"
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Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

2013-08-11 Thread Tom Morris
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Luca Martinelli
wrote:

> 2013/7/31 Andrew Gray :
> > Hi Nicholas,
> >
> > a) Yes, it is about the person and the aliases together. As a general
> > rule, it's one article per person, not per name.
> >
> > b) Different names is a quirk of the Wikipedia background - these
> > default to the title of the Wikipedia article on that person, and
> > there's no agreement on whether to put the article under the person or
> > the more famous pseudonym.
>
> FYI, there is now a property for pseudonyms (
> http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P742 ).


Is it intentional to restrict the definition to personal pseudonyms?  That
doesn't cover all uses of them  For example, there are house pseudonyms
used by publishing houses which are associated with a series and the
publishing house contracts with writers to write effectively anonymously
(although it's often known who they are).

Another example of a relatively well known collective pseudonym is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki  There's a whole category of
them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Collective_pseudonyms

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Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

2013-08-10 Thread Andrew Gray
Yes, I think multiple identities attached to a single wikidata entity is
the way to go forward. ~We talked about this briefly at Wikimania on Friday
and the consensus was "still a bit unclear" ;-)

Once qualifiers are properly up and running we might be able to mark them
as "preferred" or "main" relation vs. secondary identifiers (the main VIAF
cluster vs the isolated entries, for example)

A.

On Sunday, 11 August 2013, Luca Martinelli wrote:

> 2013/7/31 Andrew Gray >:
> > Hi Nicholas,
> >
> > a) Yes, it is about the person and the aliases together. As a general
> > rule, it's one article per person, not per name.
> >
> > b) Different names is a quirk of the Wikipedia background - these
> > default to the title of the Wikipedia article on that person, and
> > there's no agreement on whether to put the article under the person or
> > the more famous pseudonym.
>
> FYI, there is now a property for pseudonyms (
> http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P742 ).
>
> > d) I think the initial assumption was that there was a 1=1 match, but
> > if there are multiple musicbrainz id's representing facets of the same
> > entity, then Wikidata will support adding several.
>
> It is possible to put several IDs coming from the same database.
> Actually, I'm trying to do this with multiple VIAF codes referring to
> the same author, and it could also become a "feedback" to the original
> database.
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Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

2013-08-10 Thread Luca Martinelli
2013/7/31 Andrew Gray :
> Hi Nicholas,
>
> a) Yes, it is about the person and the aliases together. As a general
> rule, it's one article per person, not per name.
>
> b) Different names is a quirk of the Wikipedia background - these
> default to the title of the Wikipedia article on that person, and
> there's no agreement on whether to put the article under the person or
> the more famous pseudonym.

FYI, there is now a property for pseudonyms (
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P742 ).

> d) I think the initial assumption was that there was a 1=1 match, but
> if there are multiple musicbrainz id's representing facets of the same
> entity, then Wikidata will support adding several.

It is possible to put several IDs coming from the same database.
Actually, I'm trying to do this with multiple VIAF codes referring to
the same author, and it could also become a "feedback" to the original
database.

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Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Morris
Freebase does the same as Wikidata -- and actually has five different
MusicBrainz IDs associated
https://www.freebase.com/m/01v_pj6?props=&lang=en&filter=%2Fcommon%2Ftopic%2Ftopic_equivalent_webpage

It's worth noting however that this "one person, one entry" view isn't
universal.  Library cataloging practice is to treat pseudonyms separately,
in the same way that you've already discovered MusicBrainz does.  It's
worth keeping this in mind when interacting with other modeling communities.

Tom




On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Nicholas Humfrey <
nicholas.humf...@bbc.co.uk> wrote:

> That is great, thanks for the clarification Andrew.
>
> I guess as a rule of thumb, the label of the entry in Wikipedia should
> match label of the linked entry in MusicBrainz.
>
> nick.
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Andrew Gray 
> Date: Wednesday, 31 July 2013 12:59
> To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project."
> 
> Cc: Nicholas Humfrey 
> Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry
>
> >Hi Nicholas,
> >
> >a) Yes, it is about the person and the aliases together. As a general
> >rule, it's one article per person, not per name.
> >
> >b) Different names is a quirk of the Wikipedia background - these
> >default to the title of the Wikipedia article on that person, and
> >there's no agreement on whether to put the article under the person or
> >the more famous pseudonym.
> >
> >c) At the moment, yes, there would need to be separate Wikipedia
> >pages. I think for the specific case of people with pseudonyms,
> >Wikidata is likely to continue on a "one entity" rule even if we relax
> >the Wikipedia requirement.
> >
> >d) I think the initial assumption was that there was a 1=1 match, but
> >if there are multiple musicbrainz id's representing facets of the same
> >entity, then Wikidata will support adding several.
> >
> >Andrew.
> >
> >On 31 July 2013 12:45, Nicholas Humfrey 
> >wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Can you help me understand the scope of a Wikidata entry please?
> >>
> >>
> >> What is this Wikidata entry for?
> >> http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272619
> >>
> >> Is it for the person Norman Cook and all of his aliases?
> >> Should that title be Fatboy Slim or Norman Cook?
> >> Is it ok that it has different titles in different languages?
> >>
> >> Do there have to be separate Wikpedia pages before we can create
> >>separate
> >> Wikidata entities for the separate concepts?
> >>
> >>
> >> In MusicBrainz there are three artists that point to the 'Norman Cook'
> >> Wikipedia page:
> >>
> >> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/3150be04-f42f-43e0-ab5c-77965a4f7a7d
> >> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/34c63966-445c-4613-afe1-4f0e1e53ae9a
> >> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/ba81eb4a-0c89-489f-9982-0154b8083a28
> >>
> >> Should they all be pointing at the same Wikidata entry too?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Is it ok that there is only a single MusicBrainz identifier in Wikidata?
> >> How is that identifier chosen?
> >>
> >>
> >> The problem that we are experiencing is that our Triplestore is merging
> >> all these concepts together into a single entity and I am trying to work
> >> out where to break the equivalence, or if it is even a problem.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> nick.
> >>
> >>
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Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

2013-07-31 Thread Nicholas Humfrey
That is great, thanks for the clarification Andrew.

I guess as a rule of thumb, the label of the entry in Wikipedia should
match label of the linked entry in MusicBrainz.

nick.


-Original Message-
From: Andrew Gray 
Date: Wednesday, 31 July 2013 12:59
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project."

Cc: Nicholas Humfrey 
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

>Hi Nicholas,
>
>a) Yes, it is about the person and the aliases together. As a general
>rule, it's one article per person, not per name.
>
>b) Different names is a quirk of the Wikipedia background - these
>default to the title of the Wikipedia article on that person, and
>there's no agreement on whether to put the article under the person or
>the more famous pseudonym.
>
>c) At the moment, yes, there would need to be separate Wikipedia
>pages. I think for the specific case of people with pseudonyms,
>Wikidata is likely to continue on a "one entity" rule even if we relax
>the Wikipedia requirement.
>
>d) I think the initial assumption was that there was a 1=1 match, but
>if there are multiple musicbrainz id's representing facets of the same
>entity, then Wikidata will support adding several.
>
>Andrew.
>
>On 31 July 2013 12:45, Nicholas Humfrey 
>wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can you help me understand the scope of a Wikidata entry please?
>>
>>
>> What is this Wikidata entry for?
>> http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272619
>>
>> Is it for the person Norman Cook and all of his aliases?
>> Should that title be Fatboy Slim or Norman Cook?
>> Is it ok that it has different titles in different languages?
>>
>> Do there have to be separate Wikpedia pages before we can create
>>separate
>> Wikidata entities for the separate concepts?
>>
>>
>> In MusicBrainz there are three artists that point to the 'Norman Cook'
>> Wikipedia page:
>>
>> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/3150be04-f42f-43e0-ab5c-77965a4f7a7d
>> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/34c63966-445c-4613-afe1-4f0e1e53ae9a
>> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/ba81eb4a-0c89-489f-9982-0154b8083a28
>>
>> Should they all be pointing at the same Wikidata entry too?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Is it ok that there is only a single MusicBrainz identifier in Wikidata?
>> How is that identifier chosen?
>>
>>
>> The problem that we are experiencing is that our Triplestore is merging
>> all these concepts together into a single entity and I am trying to work
>> out where to break the equivalence, or if it is even a problem.
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> nick.
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Gray
Hi Nicholas,

a) Yes, it is about the person and the aliases together. As a general
rule, it's one article per person, not per name.

b) Different names is a quirk of the Wikipedia background - these
default to the title of the Wikipedia article on that person, and
there's no agreement on whether to put the article under the person or
the more famous pseudonym.

c) At the moment, yes, there would need to be separate Wikipedia
pages. I think for the specific case of people with pseudonyms,
Wikidata is likely to continue on a "one entity" rule even if we relax
the Wikipedia requirement.

d) I think the initial assumption was that there was a 1=1 match, but
if there are multiple musicbrainz id's representing facets of the same
entity, then Wikidata will support adding several.

Andrew.

On 31 July 2013 12:45, Nicholas Humfrey  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can you help me understand the scope of a Wikidata entry please?
>
>
> What is this Wikidata entry for?
> http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272619
>
> Is it for the person Norman Cook and all of his aliases?
> Should that title be Fatboy Slim or Norman Cook?
> Is it ok that it has different titles in different languages?
>
> Do there have to be separate Wikpedia pages before we can create separate
> Wikidata entities for the separate concepts?
>
>
> In MusicBrainz there are three artists that point to the 'Norman Cook'
> Wikipedia page:
>
> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/3150be04-f42f-43e0-ab5c-77965a4f7a7d
> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/34c63966-445c-4613-afe1-4f0e1e53ae9a
> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/ba81eb4a-0c89-489f-9982-0154b8083a28
>
> Should they all be pointing at the same Wikidata entry too?
>
>
>
>
>
> Is it ok that there is only a single MusicBrainz identifier in Wikidata?
> How is that identifier chosen?
>
>
> The problem that we are experiencing is that our Triplestore is merging
> all these concepts together into a single entity and I am trying to work
> out where to break the equivalence, or if it is even a problem.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> nick.
>
>
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[Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

2013-07-31 Thread Nicholas Humfrey
Hello,

Can you help me understand the scope of a Wikidata entry please?


What is this Wikidata entry for?
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272619

Is it for the person Norman Cook and all of his aliases?
Should that title be Fatboy Slim or Norman Cook?
Is it ok that it has different titles in different languages?

Do there have to be separate Wikpedia pages before we can create separate
Wikidata entities for the separate concepts?


In MusicBrainz there are three artists that point to the 'Norman Cook'
Wikipedia page:

http://musicbrainz.org/artist/3150be04-f42f-43e0-ab5c-77965a4f7a7d
http://musicbrainz.org/artist/34c63966-445c-4613-afe1-4f0e1e53ae9a
http://musicbrainz.org/artist/ba81eb4a-0c89-489f-9982-0154b8083a28

Should they all be pointing at the same Wikidata entry too?





Is it ok that there is only a single MusicBrainz identifier in Wikidata?
How is that identifier chosen?


The problem that we are experiencing is that our Triplestore is merging
all these concepts together into a single entity and I am trying to work
out where to break the equivalence, or if it is even a problem.


Thanks!

nick.



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