On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi! > > > architect}} at the top. How would ContentTranslation, a MediaWiki > > extension installed on the Wikimedia cluster, know that the "name" > > parameter is "naam" in Dutch? > > "Name" would be a bit tricky since I'm not sure if we have property > called "name" but for something like date of birth wouldn't it be useful > to link it in the template to > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P569 somehow? Is there such > possibility? > In DBpedia we have our own properties and the mappings should use these instead. Some exceptions exist for very popular vocabularies such as foaf:name but I am not sure if we should allow direct mappings to a wikidata property if an equivalent DBpedia property exists. In this case it's http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/OntologyProperty:BirthDate We already have some mappings in place but more are needed for complete coverage http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=wikidata&go=Go > With identifying properties, however - such as name - I'm not sure if > this could be used. > I agree that general properties such as name are difficult to interpret > > > Even if it is possible to query it, is it good to be dependent on an > > external website for this? Maybe it makes sense to import the data from > > dbpedia to Wikidata? It's absolutely not a rhetorical question - maybe > > it is OK to use dbpedia. > > Well, in dbpedia it says name is foaf:name, but this could only be > appropriate for humans (and maybe only in specific contexts), for other > entities "name" may have completely different semantics. In Wikidata, > however, properties are generic, so I wonder if it would be possible to > keep context. dbPedia obviously does have context but not sure where it > would be in Wikidata. > We could keep the context in DBpedia and with proper inter-linking do many interesting stuff. As we discussed yesterday, we could use DBpedia Live and check for updated/stalled/missing values. For example, if the previous values were the same in DBpedia/Wikipedia & Wikidata and e.g. Wikipedia changes a value we could trigger an update alert, or if a new value such as deathDate in introduced that does not exist in Wikidata. DBpedia would use dbo:deathDate, but using the link to P570 we could allow an agent to do the check > > -- > Stas Malyshev > smalys...@wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > -- Kontokostas Dimitris
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