Hello Jean-Baptiste and welcome!
regarding the bibliographic aspects of your question, I have to mention
that we have a page where we collect and discuss these properties
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Books_task_force
As you can see, we already use the FRBR model and we were considering
mapping external ontologies like FaBiO or others
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Books_task_force#Mapping_extern…
But of course we are always short on volunteers and this is not done yet,
so if you would like to help out finding equivalences with RDA or/and FaBiO
we would be most grateful. What needs to be done is to find out where are
the exact relationships and where we use a different way to express the
same concept, and if we miss any property, then propose it for creation.
That could be a previous step before the connection can be established
directly from the property page, as Daniel mentioned.
Cheers,
Micru
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Jean-Baptiste Pressac <
Jean-Baptiste.Pressac(a)univ-brest.fr> wrote:
Hello,
I am reading the documentation of WikiData where I learned that new
properties could be suggested for discussion. But this means adding knew
properties to WikiData. However, is it possible to use existing RDF
vocabularies like the RDF implementation <http://www.rdaregistry.info/>of
RDA <http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/> a cataloging norm based on the
FRBR<http://www.ifla.org/publications/functional-requirements-for-biblio…
model (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) (see
also "What is FRBR? <http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF>") ?
Unless this could be considered like librarian stuff, the FRBR conceptual
model is an interresting way of expressing relations between any work
(book, music, movie...) and their authors because it makes a distinction
between the work ("20.000 lieues sous les mers", the novel written by Jules
Verne) and its manifestations (the publication of this novel by Hetzel in
Paris in 1871). FRBR suggest two more levels "expression" (which I don't
understood yet) and item (an explary of the book). This model was used by
the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) for its web site data.bnf.fr,
the open data portal of the BNF.
What I mean, is that I could ask for a new property in WikiData like
p:writerOf, but why not using rdaw:author (rdaw:
http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/w/) or rather than having a WikiData
property p:workTitle using rdaw:titleOfTheWork ?
Thanks,
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