For things that actually *are* free text, and not terribly long, a monolongual (or, in the future, multilingual) text property could be used. "quote" already exists, "abstract" could be added, pending community discussion. Length limitations can be adjusted if need be.
What I was warning against is continuing the misuse of text fields for semi-structured or even fully structured data that I have often seen in GLAM meta-data. That kind of thing should not be copied to Wikidata. Am 04.04.2015 um 14:41 schrieb Valentine Charles: > Hello, > > Coming back on my previous email, I do indeed understand that Wikidata wants > structured data as much as possible. But you might have free-text information > that might not fit in a given property or even have meaning only as a free > -text > description (abstract, quotes..).GLAM's are for instance very keen on using > DBpedia because of some long free-text descriptions that are more readable and > friendly than "dry" metadata for users applications. I guess GLAMs will > continue > to use DBpedia for this purpose if Wikidata doesn't offer it. -- Daniel Kinzler Senior Software Developer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
