Hi Ben,
That's a very good point. We should really have direct links to JSON and
RDF for each item (e.g., at the top-right, which seems to be the custom
now on many web sites). We don't have an XML export (unless you count
RDF/XML).
The links would point to the standard export URLs:
* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q423111.json
* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q423111.rdf
Regarding RDF, the live RDF export has been rewritten and is almost
final now. Right now, the RDF exported on the site is still the old one
that does not contain all data yet, but this will change soon.
Regards,
Markus
On 11.06.2015 01:25, Benjamin Good wrote:
I recently introduced wikidata to a (very computationally savvy)
colleague by sending him this link:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q423111
His response is indicative of an interface problem that I think is
actually very important:
"Is there a simple way to get the RDF for a given concept? The page
seems to only present the english names for the concept and its linked
concepts."
Leaving aside RDF, it is really not straightforward for newcomers to get
from a concept page like that to the corresponding structured data.
This could be solved with the consistent addition of a simple link like
"view json/xml/rdf" to each of the concept pages on wikidata. They
would just be links to the API calls: e.g.
http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q423111 in
this case.
As the concept pages themselves get tossed around a lot, such an
addition could be extremely valuable in teaching the uninitiated what
its all about and would come at very little cost - to me, this button is
akin to the 'view source' action on web pages - an absolutely
fundamental part of how the web grows - even now.
-Ben
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