Yes, another great birthday gift! Thank you all! :))) L.
2017-10-26 19:21 GMT+02:00 Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]>: > Hey everyone, > > Wikidata’s birthday is still a few days away but since there are no > deployments on Sundays here is early birthday present number 2 ;-) > > One of Wikidata’s most important but often under-appreciated areas is > the external identifiers. They link Wikidata with by now more than > 2000 databases, knowledge bases, catalogs and more. External > identifiers allow people and machines access to more information about > a given topic and help identify the same concept in other databases. > > The identifier can often be expanded to a full URI. (For example, LoC > ID n81114174 becomes http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81114174.) > This full URI can then be used in the linked open data web to match > our data with other datasets and use both of them together easily. > > From today on, Wikidata has full URIs for statements that represent > external identifiers in its RDF exports, and thereby becomes a proper > citizen of the linked open data web. To make this work the property > for the external ID needs to have a statement with property “URI used > in RDF” (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1921). I’m looking > forward to seeing what new things are going to be built with this and > how we will show up on http://lod-cloud.net. > > > Cheers > Lydia > > > PS: It will take a reload of the query service to also have the full > URIs included there for all items. This should happen in the first two > weeks of November. (Tracking is in > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176593) Until then only newly added > or edited items will have the full URIs added to the query service. > > -- > Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher > Product Manager for Wikidata > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 > 10963 Berlin > www.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das > Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata -- Luca "Sannita" Martinelli http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
