Open epaulson opened 3 years ago
Tagging @opencivicdata/division-id-curators for discussion. Integration with Wikidata seems like a good idea.
100% on board and excited to help with (this though likely won't have bandwidth to discuss until post-Nov 3, for some reason).
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 9:54 AM James McKinney notifications@github.com wrote:
Tagging @opencivicdata/division-id-curators https://github.com/orgs/opencivicdata/teams/division-id-curators for discussion. Integration with Wikidata seems like a good idea.
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So there are now about 2000 mappings between ocd-ids and wikidata items. I think there's full coverage of US federal house/senate/states. The state legislature district coverage is choppy and there are modeling issues that need to be considered (where we might need many to one mappings between things).
Unrelatedly, do you know if anyone has the mapping from ocd-ids and ballotpedia pages? I know it exists but I'm guessing ballotpedia is guarding it.
This is awesome, if you were the one who added them, thanks!
I'm not aware of anyone with OCD-ID to ballotpedia mappings. It looks like you (or the person who's been editing wikidata) has been making progress on that, there's now ~1300 things that have both OCD-IDs and Ballotpedia IDs.
Is the modeling issue on wikidata or in OCD?
so the main modeling issue is things like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4632627 where wikidata has one entry but you have two. Currently Wikidata now has https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104235619 and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104235541 but unclear if that's the best way to do this. This issue extends to all other "coterminous" districts.
This is more of an FYI issue - I posted this to the google group, but James McKinney recommended also creating an issue and tagging the @opencivicdata/division-id-curators (though @jpmckinney, I don't seem to be able to tag that team, maybe you can only do that if you're on the team?) At any rate, I am reproducing that post here
As you might have seen in an earlier note to the list, there is now a property in Wikidata that connects entities to an Open Civic Data Division ID. I was the one who wrote the property proposal and fielded questions there, so I wanted to do some introductions here now that it’s been enabled.
Wikidata, if you don’t know it, is a sibling project to Wikipedia that aims to create a free and open structured knowledge base that’s both machine-readable and easy for humans to read too. Part of it aims to put data that’s found in the Wikipedia infoboxes (facts like city populations, area, etc) into a structured format so that it can be reused across wikis, but it goes much beyond that. Wikidata includes data about many more “things” than Wikipedia does - there are about 90 million entities in Wikidata right now, and growing.
Wikidata is a knowledge graph, using an extension to Mediawiki called ‘Wikibase’. For purposes of this discussion, you can treat Wikibase as a triplestore graph database that captures facts in the form: