Wikidata for music
Dan Scott, Laurentian University / coffeecode.net
2017-09-19
Details
Slides: stuff.coffeecode.net/2017/wikidata_workshop
Notes: stuff.coffeecode.net/2017/wikidata_workshop/notes.html
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Objectives
Understand Wikidata's data model
Understand Wikidata's role
Embrace editing
Create notable entities
Share your finely honed skills
Overview
Log in
Same user name and password across all Wikimedia projects
Sandbox
Use the Wikidata Sandbox page for practice editing
Also recommended: Wikidata:Tours
Licensing
Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0) license
Public domain, or as close as possible
Impact
Linked open data: great in theory…
Proof of concept: Laurentian University catalogue
By Charlie Kritschmar (WMDE) - Own work, CC0, Link
Data model
Entities: people, places, things (including concepts)
Statements: properties with values
Notability criteria: one of
Notable, via publicly available references
Links to a Wiki* page
Fulfills a structural need
Labels, aliases, and descriptions
Q####: machine-readable name and URL
Humans get one label and description per entity per language
Multiple aliases per entity
| Label | Description | Aliases |
|---|---|---|
| Bono | Lead singer for U2 | Paul David Hewson |
Missing labels
Display falls back to Q###
No references needed for edits to label/description/aliases
Subclasses and instances
Subclasses: refined classifications
Instances: concrete members of a subclass
Music genres
SQID allows browsing of subclass / instance relationships
May 2017: 1,250 instances, 16 subclasses
September 2017: 1,338 instances, 18 subclasses
A musician's statements
instance of
genre (multiple values)
image (Wikimedia only)
instrument
date of birth (date constraint)
spouse (qualified)
part of (bands or ensembles, qualified)
Add a statement
Buffy Sainte-Marie (Q467027): played more than just the guitar
Mouth bow referenced in a Vogue article
Let's fix that
Add a qualifier
Buffy Sainte-Marie (Q467027): missing a date for Governor General’s Performing Arts Award
Referenced in a 2010 Toronto Star article
Let's fix that (in the sandbox)!
Reference pieces
Stated in
Reference URL
Title
Publication date
Retrieved
Adding references in bulk
Enable Preferences -> Gadgets -> DuplicateReferences
- Add the reference once
- Reload the page
- Open a reference
- Click copy
- Click insert reference
Authority control
Check out Buffy Sainte-Marie's Identifiers:
Well-known: VIAF, ISNI, LC Authorities
Music: AllMusic, Discogs, MusicBrainz, Songkick
Social media: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace
… and many more to build out the network
Authority control: Wikipedia
Check out Buffy Sainte-Marie's Wikipedia page
See Authority control in External links
Edit the page to see the {{Authority control}} macro
Musician entities
genre (P136) captures the music genre(s) (Q188451) for the band, individual, or event (SQID)
occupation (P106) = musician (Q639669) or one of its subclasses (SQID)
instrument (P1303) = musical instrument (Q34379) or one of its subclasses (SQID)
Band entities
instance of = band (Q215380)
Band members are represented via has part (P527), and you can qualify each statement with point in time (P585) to reflect when members joined or left the band
inception (P571) is the when the band began
Music festival classes
Credit due to Eurovision Song Contest!
Festival class: Northern Lights Festival Boréal
Instance of both:
Music festival instances
Instance of a specific music festival
Series instances: Northern Lights Festival Boréal 2016
edition number (P393) indicates the festival edition
Link between editions with follows (P155) and followed by (P156)
participant (P710) statements link to performers
Wikidata for your edit-a-thon
- Easy for beginners: just the facts!
- Lower barrier for notability
- Each edit benefits every language
- Low-hanging fruit for the detail-oriented
Querying Wikidata with SPARQL
Details
Slides: stuff.coffeecode.net/2017/wikidata_workshop
Notes: stuff.coffeecode.net/2017/wikidata_workshop/notes.html
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License