On 3 January 2013 00:06, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, 2 January 2013 at 11:32, Dan Brickley wrote: >> Anyway this is really just a quick mail to ask: is there any prospect >> that this enriched metadata linking Your Painting author IDs to >> Wikipedia could find it's way back into the original BBC pages too? >> Ideally marked up in RDFa with schema.org (http://schema.org) vocabulary? >> I'd love to see >> all this structured information accessible via the likes of >> wikidata/dbpedia/freebase. > > > Much as I'd like it to be the case that Wikipedia embraced > RDFa and the web of linked data, it seems unlikely at the > moment.
I thought Dan meant RDFa on the BBC website. Besides, we've had microformat markup in our infoobxes since 2007 - and that's extractable, via third-party sites such as <http://any23.org/>, as JSON, RDF, etc. > I'm hoping that Wikidata might ease the Wikimedia community > in to trying the very tasty Semantic Web Kool-Aid®. It's going to be long, hard slog. Just look at some of the rubbish spouted about metadata by those opposed to using infoboxes in articles. > VIAF was a first, initial stab towards richly linking Wikipedia together > with other linked data on the web. Hopefully it won't be the last. A major, important and welcome step - but not the first. I've previously written and deployed templates to link articles to OpenCorprates, OpenDomesday: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:OpenCorp> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:OpenDomesday> which reciprocate the links, and which are linked data sites; as is OpenPlaques, for which there is also a template: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Openplaque> and (mentioned for completeness) OpenStreetMap, linked indirctly via our coordinates templates. To facilitate further discussion and development, I have just created, and am populating, [[Category:External link templates to linked data sites with reciprocal links]]: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:External_link_templates_to_linked_data_sites_with_reciprocal_links> Finally, please also note WikiProject_Unique_Identifiers: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Unique_Identifiers> -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
