On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 6:02 PM Christopher Johnson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have encountered a problem with federating Wikidata entities with LOD
> based on the abundant external resource "literal identifiers" that are
> represented in Wikidata.  An external resource identifier should include
> the entire IRI to the resource, not just the "id", otherwise the external
> resource cannot be federated in a SPARQL query without concatenating the
> IRI to the literal identifier and binding to a new variable.
>
> I think that Wikidata properties that expect explicit Identifiers in the
> range should thus be defined as "object properties" rather than "datatype
> properties".   The javascript id linking gadget in the UI also typically
> borks the link when a IRI is inputted as an identifier making it less
> likely for people to do it properly.  I assume that this is a "policy" that
> was established for bot id imports, that unfortunately has produced a lot
> of "not so useful" data.
>
> The triple pattern fragment implementation that I am working with does not
> allow bind grouping in the sparql query, so this unfortunately makes
> federation of Wikidata entities by Identifiers nearly impossible.  Hence,
> the only federation that I have been able to do effectively is "to"
> Wikidata not "from" it....
>
> If anyone is interested, I have setup Wikidata as a TPF datasource here:
> http://orbeon-bb.wmflabs.org/wdqs-sparql  The API works by passing an
> encoded subject, predicate or object parameter like:
> http://orbeon-bb.wmflabs.org/wdqs-sparql?object=%22Berlin%22%40de
>


That's being worked on with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121274 and
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73992 and was one of the main reasons we
introduced a new datatype for identifiers recently.

Cheers
Lydia
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