Project:QuickStatements

Data transfer to Wikidata

This section describes how to export data from the MaRDI portal to Wikidata to make the data better findable for the general public.

Example EuDML prposed by Vladimir Alexiev in 2022, which has currently 17 results.

1. Prepare query for the MaRDI SPARQL endpoint
   1. Find the qIDs with a statement using P12 = WikidataQId
   2. The thing you want to export, here a part of the external url P205
   3. Check whether there are MaRDI items with P205 (external URL) statements and without P12 (Wikidata QID) statements. If so, use MaRDI's QuickStatements tool to add that query's results to MaRDI.
2. Write the query, example

   SELECT ?MaRDI_qID ?MaRDI_item ?EuDMLid WHERE {
     ?MaRDI_item wdt:P205 ?URL;
                 wdt:P12 ?Wikidata_qID.
     FILTER(STRSTARTS(STR(?URL), "https://eudml"))
     BIND(SUBSTR(STR(?URL), 23 ) AS ?EuDMLid)
   }
   LIMIT 10
   

   and investigate the result.
   • Check for total number of MaRDI items with EuDML links (9296 as of 7 October 2024)
3. Find the properties in Wikidata, here only P11166 for eudml.
4. Check whether Wikidata already has a corresponding statement.
   1. If yes, check consistency with MaRDI.
   2. If no, prepare upload to Wikidata.
5. Rewrite the query to match the Quickstatements CSV format

   SELECT ?qid ?P11166 WHERE {
     ?qal854 wdt:P205 ?url ;
           wdt:P12 ?qid
     FILTER (STRSTARTS(str(?url) ,"https://eudml")) .
     BIND (Concat( 
       "\"", ## Required for external identifiers by quickstatements
       SUBSTR(STR(?url),23), ## 23 = Length of the prefix
       "\"") as ?P11166)
     }
   LIMIT 3
   

6. Download the CSV file and test with a few items on Wikidata
7. Optional add source linking back to the source of the information (MaRDI)

   SELECT ?qid ?P11166 ?S854 WHERE {
     ?item wdt:P205 ?url ;
           wdt:P12 ?qid
     FILTER (STRSTARTS(str(?url) ,"https://eudml")) .
     BIND (Concat( 
       "\"", ## Required for external identifiers by quickstatements
       SUBSTR(STR(?url),23), ## 23 = Length of the prefix
       "\"") as ?P11166).
       BIND (Concat( 
       "\"", ## Required for external identifiers by quickstatements
       STR(?item), 
       "\"") as ?S854)
     }
   LIMIT 3
   

8. Remove the limit and do the full import