https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60366
--- Comment #4 from Thomas Berger <[email protected]> --- Well, actually Magnus Manske has set up most of the requested functionality at http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/beacon.php If you select distinct WD properties for "Property" and "Source" it essentially generates a two column table mapping the values of the "Source" property to values of the "Property" property and the head field "#TARGET" provides an URL template to construct an actionable URL from values taken from the right hand column. Typical use cases are to have some "authority control" numbers in the left column (not necessarily web actionable) and identifiers for "interesting stuff on the web" in the right column. Example: http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/beacon.php?prop=535&source=214 maps from VIAF (P214) "to" the Find-a-Grave site (P535). In this example a third party (database like) site which happens to know the VIAF identifiers for its stuff may consummate the BEACON file provided by Wikidata and subsequently is able to provide its users with links to the Find A Grave website. In this scenario wikidata is merely a provider for mapping data. Real example with GND identifiers (P227): http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz118147.html is a biographical article from the "Neue Deutsche Biographie" and has a tab "Weitere Informationen" (further information): Any link there (with the exception of "GND" and "VIAF") is based on BEACON files they import into their web application. IMHO Magnus' tool should suffice to exploit wikidata's parenthetic ability to provide mappings between two "external" identifier systems. Now, if Wikidata (or its Q-Numbers) are one of the participants in a mapping, some enhancements could be favourable: E.g. VIAF provides resolving services, i.e. it supports the crafting of URLs constructed from identifiers of its constituents: viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/DNB|119186187 gives access to the VIAF cluster of the person above based on its GND identifier 119186187 thus obliviating the need to first determine the correcponding VIAF identifier. User APPER on the German Wikipedia has set up a service to achieve the same for de.wikipedia.org, http://tools.wmflabs.org/persondata/redirect/gnd/de/{ID} . Consequently the BEACON file http://tools.wmflabs.org/persondata/beacon/dewiki.txt just mentions the GND identifiers known to the target, making it a single-column table, since the task of identifier mapping is shifted from the BEACON file to the target resolver. Consumers of this BEACON file simply insert the appropriate identifiers into the target URL pattern to achieve a mapping to the German Wikipedia: http://tools.wmflabs.org/persondata/redirect/gnd/de/119186187 and users of that link are redirected to https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Sproemberg . Now Wikidata could provide for any identifier-like property (most importantly those categorized under "authority control" a similar kind of resolving functionality ( http://www.wikidata.org/resolver/P227/{ID} ) and a corresponding BEACON file would list the resolver URL pattern as #TARGET and otherwise list all *values* of P227 (only for these the resolver would yield a non-empty result). Wether the resolver should resolve to the "raw" wikidata item page or rather a prettified reasonator presentation would be open to settlement. More interesting perhaps would be a variant where sitelinks are exploited: http://www.wikidata.org/resolver/P227/en/{ID} would directly redirect to the corresponding article on en.wikipedia.org and the corresponding BEACON file would list the subset of values of P227 occurring in wikidata items having a sitelink to en.wikipedia. This would be a symmetric counterpart to the wikidata use inside en.wikipedia: The authority control template there traditionally only list the VIAF number but pulls in identifiers for a major number of different authority control systems from Wikidata. For P227 and de.wikipedia (also de.wikisource and commons) this setup would provide the exact same functionality as APPER's on wmflabs, for LCCN, VIAF, ... and other authority control properties and/or sites other than de.wikipedia it would be something new allowing library catalogs utilizing VIAF or LCCN or SUDOC numbers to provide links to en.wikipedia, fr.wikipedia and so on in a much more lightweight fashion than to explicitly store the titles of the individual articles in their database. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
