There's an underlying many-to-many relationship between works and edition, data structure IMHO should be built accordingly with the worst case: an edition that collects many different works, any of them being published in many different editions.
At it.wikisource we are going to simplify a little bit things using a convention based of the fact that "book" is a physical entity; 1. one djvu file for one book; 2. one Index page for one djvu file (this is simple :-) ) 3. at least one ns0 page exactly matching one index page. So, given a simple one-to-one relationship between these entities, a unique wikidata edition item is sufficient for all from them. This simple approach solves the "edition" side of the issue; the "work" side, IMHO, can only be solved with a different "work" abstract item, as we are doing into the new Work namespace. Alex 2015-06-29 12:40 GMT+02:00 David Cuenca Tudela <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> It is solvable, but it is complex. >> >> 3. Qx and/or Qy have an associated (English) Wikipedia page >> >> I think that one of the issues here is the simple fact that the matter is >> complex, and even if you find a solution to the "theory", it's not easy to >> comply. Right now in Wikidata there is confusion, around books, and you >> don't really know what to do with them. >> >> Moreover, it is not easy at all to create a new book, make the right >> relationships with the author and other work/edition of the same book. For >> example, as far as I know, you can't copy an item, and this alone is a >> burden to the user who has to start everytime from scratch a new item. >> I myself give it up most times than not.... >> > > TBH, I would only focus on the 90% of the cases and leave the other cases > to be handled manually. > > An example of how the structure is: > Random Work > |- edition 1 in English > |- edition 2 in English > |- edition 1 in Italian > |- edition 1 in French > > The page in edition 1 is linked to the item in Wikidata, but the interwiki > links do not show up for the other editions, so it is a matter of finding > out what are the other edition interwiki links and displaying them in the > Wikisource page. > > This has two components, the data input and the visualization component. > For the data input there is the new Book Manager v2 which is the metadata > frontend > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BookManagerv2 > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T17071 > > It is a matter of enabling a field more to link with the work item, and > through it, get the interwiki links of all editions connected to that item > representing the work. > > I don't know if it is the proper way to do it, but I would appreciate some > feedback. > > For linking with the Index page there is a new Wikidata property as Magnus > pointed. > > Cheers, > Micru > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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