Wow this sounds great! I would love to use this for oeuvre catalogs of top
painters!  The latest Rembrandt catalog is complete on Wikidata, as well as
a few other ones, but older ones are not yet complete. This could be a
great tracking tool for WikiProjects.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Darari Fariz <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Wikidata community! Wikidata is a great platform for collecting
> information, and the high quality work of many authors yields very reliable
> information. Still, a challenge for users of Wikidata is that there is no
> way to see whether *all* data on a certain topic is in Wikidata. For
> instance, it is easy to see that Malia and Sasha are children of Obama, but
> there is no way to specify that these are all his children. More generally,
> Wikidata stores many facts, but it stores no information about which topic
> it contains all facts. Today we are happy to share with you a prototype
> that allows to add and manage such completeness information, and would be
> happy to get your feedback on how useful you consider this tool, or where
> you see space for improvements. With our prototype, called COOL-WD
> (Completeness Tool for Wikidata), one can: 1. See completeness statements
> for Wikidata facts 2. Add, remove, aggregate and filter completeness
> statements 3. See how completeness statements allow conclusions about the
> completeness of SPARQL queries over Wikidata. COOL-WD is available at
> http://cool-wd.inf.unibz.it/ and a 3-min demo video can be found at
> http://cool-wd.inf.unibz.it/coolwd-hd.mp4 It employs various libraries,
> most importantly GWT, Apache Jena, SQLite and the Wikidata API. The formal
> background and description of the tool including an indexing technique for
> completeness statements have been accepted as a research paper at ICWE 2016
> (http://icwe2016.inf.usi.ch/) available to download at:
> http://bit.ly/1VOsRCH Below are some naive ideas of how completeness
> could be useful to users: > Use Case 1: Rido is a geographer who would like
> to contribute to Wikidata about the administrative divisions of regions. He
> cares so much about data quality, especially data completeness, and is
> collaborating with Simon, another geographer. However, when completing data
> on Wikidata, there is currently no way to mark which data is complete. Rido
> and Simon must make these notes about completeness manually in, say, a
> Google Doc. Worse still, the effort from Rido and Simon to complete data
> could not be appreciated by Wikidata users since to the users’ eyes, there
> is no difference between complete data and incomplete data on Wikidata.
> Demo: Wikidata is complete for all administrative divisions of Saxony (
> http://cool-wd.inf.unibz.it/?p=Q1202) > Use Case 2: Jen is a developer of
> a moviegoer application. She usually integrates data between multiple
> sources including Wikidata. If some movies on Wikidata have completeness
> statements, she might optimize her application to not search in other data
> sources for those movies. Demo: So, when her app is asking on COOL-WD at
> http://cool-wd.inf.unibz.it/?p=query for cast and screenwriters of the
> movie Before Sunset (http://cool-wd.inf.unibz.it/?p=Q652186): SELECT *
> WHERE { wd:Q652186 wdt:P161 ?c . wd:Q652186 wdt:P58 ?s } Her app gets not
> only query answers but also the completeness information of her query. We
> are looking forward to your feedback! Best, Fariz, Simon, Rido, and Werner
> Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
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