[Wikidata-l] DBpedia usage in the bbc

2012-07-03 Thread Michael Smethurst
Hello A few notes on the BBC's use of DBpedia which Dan thought might be of interest to this list: Not sure how familiar you are with bbc web stuff so a brief introduction We have a large and somewhat sprawling website with 2 main sections: news article related stuff (including sports) and prog

Re: [Wikidata-l] DBpedia usage in the bbc

2012-07-04 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 03/07/2012 19:19, "Tom Morris" wrote: > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Michael Smethurst > wrote: > > I'm really looking forward to Wikidata, but it sounds like you might > not be familiar with Freebase which already provides solutions to some > of yo

Re: [Wikidata-l] DBpedia usage in the bbc

2012-07-04 Thread Michael Smethurst
about them. The community will > decide on the kind of sources they accept. Etc. > > (Actually, "decide" is too nice a word for the process I expect will unfold... > ) > > We will keep the problems you mentioned in mind, and I fully think > that we will improve on e

Re: [Wikidata-l] DBpedia usage in the bbc - selected highlights

2012-07-05 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 05/07/2012 10:56, "Michael Hopwood" wrote: > Hello Michael, Nicholas et list, Hi Michael > > I hope you don't mind me jumping in here with a few comments on selected > highlights of this thread. > Taking /music as an example... > > I wonder if you have looked at book data? I am wo

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata links

2012-07-26 Thread Michael Smethurst
Very delayed reply but think I'm still confused on this. Made a picture to clear my mind but not sure it works: http://smethur.st/wikidata The bit I think I get: If I request http://en.wikidata.org/wiki/Berlin Or http://en.wikidata.org/title/Berlin I get a 301? to: http://wikidata.org/title/en:Ber

Re: [Wikidata-l] Canonical URL for Wikidata pages?

2012-12-04 Thread Michael Smethurst
Hello I've *finally* updated my wikidata URI pattern picture based on this and an earlier conversation from back in August [1]: http://smethur.st/wikidata (you need to click the image before it's readable) Hoping it looks a little more correct. Certainly makes more sense in my head. My only c

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-20 Thread Michael Smethurst
Not quite on topic but on the subject of uncertainty around dates I've worked with a couple of data sets where birth and death dates were unknown but activity periods [1] were known. These have either had a separate flag called is_flourished (or similar) used to modify born / died or separate fl

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF Issues

2013-10-22 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 21/10/2013 21:52, "Daniel Kinzler" wrote: >Am 21.10.2013 16:48, schrieb Kingsley Idehen: >> Can someone not change 302 to 303 re: RewriteRule ^/entity/(.*)$ >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/$1 [R=302,QSA] ? > > >The thing is that we intended this to be an internal apache r

[Wikidata-l] supported and planned wikidata uris( was Re:Meta header for asserting that a web page is about a Wikidata subject)

2014-02-26 Thread Michael Smethurst
Hello *Really* not meaning to jump down any http-range-14 rabbit holes but wasn't there a plan for wikidata to have uris representing things and pages about those things? From conversations on this list I sketched a picture a while back of all the planned URIs: http://smethur.st/wp-uploads/2012/0

Re: [Wikidata-l] supported and planned wikidata uris( was Re:Meta header for asserting that a web page is about a Wikidata subject)

2014-02-27 Thread Michael Smethurst
hello On 27/02/2014 08:44, "Markus Krötzsch" wrote: >Hi, > >On 26/02/14 22:40, Michael Smethurst wrote: >> Hello >> >> *Really* not meaning to jump down any http-range-14 rabbit holes but >> wasn't there a plan for wikidata to have uris rep

Re: [Wikidata-l] supported and planned wikidata uris( was Re:Meta header for asserting that a web page is about a Wikidata subject)

2014-04-24 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 24/04/2014 11:10, "David Cuenca" wrote: >On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Michael Smethurst > wrote: > > >If I know everything needed to construct a wikipedia uri (language and uri >key) is it possible to construct a uri that redirects to a wikidata Q