{"id":33,"date":"2018-05-14T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T22:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wikidata-workshop\/?p=33"},"modified":"2021-10-28T18:43:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T18:43:02","slug":"structured-linked-open-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wikidata-workshop\/structured-linked-open-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Structured, linked, open data"},"content":{"rendered":"

The interlinking of the Wikimedia projects.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Wikimedia projects are all about connections and wiki-linking to find out more. So the projects all interlink with one another too.<\/p>\n

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Click through to view Robert Louis Stevenson’s<\/a> Wikipedia page.<\/p>\n

We found a text called Edinburgh<\/a> (1914). This was a text recently uploaded to Wikisource from a djvu scan on the Internet Archive. The text was OCR-ed and proofread by two Wikisource users to ensure it was correct. Now it is 100% searchable HTML and the images have been cropped out so they can be shared individually as openly-licensed images on Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n

As a result we now have:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. The illustrated text <\/a>described as \u201cto the Scot it ought to be a sort of Bible<\/em>\u201d in 100% searchable HTML on Wikisource.<\/li>\n
  2. Illustrations shared to Wikimedia Commons<\/a> for anyone to share and reuse.<\/li>\n
  3. A new Wikipedia article<\/a> created on the book with a link to these images and to the text on Wikisource. 1 click away!<\/li>\n
  4. A link to the text on Wikisource added to the Wikipedia page for Edinburgh<\/a> so that the text is surfaced on a relevant<\/em> page where people can discover it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Don\u2019t believe me about the 100% searchable HTML? Type \u201cmoist eyebrows<\/em>\u201d into the search bar on Wikisource <\/a>and see if it can find where Stevenson uses it in one of his novels. Make sure you use the speech marks so it can find the exact phrase.<\/p>\n

    How is data structured on Wikidata?<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Every item of data on Wikidata represents a unique entity so is given a unique Q number to identify it.<\/p>\n

    Douglas Adams is Q42<\/a>. Can you guess what Q13<\/a> is?<\/p>\n

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    Within these item pages, information is stored in a series of statements with each statement being a triplet of the form \u201csubject \u2013 predicate \u2013 object\u201d, for example:<\/p>\n