Hi Valentine, The long, chatty, free-text descriptive element of Wikidata is really Wikipedia ;-)
There is a small free-text field in Wikidata for each item (the description, one per language) but it's intended for a short identifying/disambiguating note: "1887 self-portrait by XYZ"; "Danish artist and historian, 1912-1974", etc. Dimensions are, I believe, being worked on. Andrew. On 1 April 2015 at 08:20, Valentine Charles <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > Thank you all for your answers. I will have a look to the different projects > you have mentioned in your emails. > In the meantime I have spent a bit more time exploring Wikidata for > paintings as one of our project currently focuses on Art and comparing it > with the Europeana Data Model in terms of properties. I have noticed the > absence of some properties and I would be curious whether it is just an > overlook or whether there is a real intention behind the omission: > > -Cultural Heritage data have most of the time a description property where > you will find lot of relevant free text information. The structured property > but inside you will find mostly free- text. I couldn't find a similar > property in Wikidata but there is something similar in Dbpedia. Is it > something you are planning to introduce or have you made the decision to > exclude any free-text infromation from Wikidata for now. > > -While I was looking for painting in Wikidata I also noticed the absence of > information related to the size/dimension of the Artwork. The information is > most of the time present in Cultural Heritage data. Is it something Wikidata > is interested in or has it been omitted intentionally? > > -Then the last question is about values in different languages for a given > property. How do you indicate the language in Wikidata? Are you using a > xml:lang attribute or something similar? > > Thank you very much for your help > > Best, > > Valentine > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
