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For some reason wikidata is light on financial info, as in budgets, expenditure, income, debt, assets of various orgs, various levels of govt etc. Is it because

by op03 6y ago

For some reason wikidata is light on financial info, as in budgets, expenditure, income, debt, assets of various orgs, various levels of govt etc. Is it because the triple store is not the best way to store/query financial data or is it some other reason? Anyone know? Lot of financial data is public but not much getting into wikidata.

tuukkah 6y ago
It's an ecosystem of CC0-licensed, sourced data input and applications. Regarding triples, note that Wikidata is not purely a triple store: each statement ("triple") can include qualifiers, which are key-value pairs about the core statement. So you can directly express "Company X made profit Y, in year Z, according to source S" etc.
yorwba 6y ago
There's a property to represent the budget for a project: https://wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2769 https://wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2769 So the triple store is perfectly capable of storing that kind of data. If you don't find what you're looking for, it just means nobody cared enough to add it yet. I adapted one of the example queries to show the most recent entities with a budget: https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20All%20items%20with%20a%20property%0A%23%20Sample%20to%20query%20all%20values%20of%20a%20property%0A%23%20Property%20talk%20pages%20on%20Wikidata%20include%20basic%20queries%20adapted%20to%20each%20property%0ASELECT%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%0A%20%20%3Fvalue%20%3FvalueLabel%0A%23%20valueLabel%20is%20only%20useful%20for%20properties%20with%20item-datatype%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2769%20%3Fvalue%0A%20%20%23%20change%20P2769%20%28budget%29%20to%20another%20property%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%23%20adapted%20from%20the%20%22most%20recently%20created%20items%22%20query%20on%20the%20property%20talk%20page%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FProperty_talk%3AP2769%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28xsd%3Ainteger%28SUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fitem%29%2C33%29%29%29%0A%23%20remove%20or%20change%20limit%20for%20more%20results%0ALIMIT%2010 https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20All%20items%20with%20a%20p... Looks like mostly research grants. My guess is that someone wrote an integration to add new research grants to Wikidata as soon as they're published.

by op03 6y ago

tuukkah 6y ago

It's an ecosystem of CC0-licensed, sourced data input and applications. Regarding triples, note that Wikidata is not purely a triple store: each statement ("triple") can include qualifiers, which are key-value pairs about the core statement. So you can directly express "Company X made profit Y, in year Z, according to source S" etc.

yorwba 6y ago

There's a property to represent the budget for a project: https://wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2769 https://wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2769 So the triple store is perfectly capable of storing that kind of data. If you don't find what you're looking for, it just means nobody cared enough to add it yet. I adapted one of the example queries to show the most recent entities with a budget: https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20All%20items%20with%20a%20property%0A%23%20Sample%20to%20query%20all%20values%20of%20a%20property%0A%23%20Property%20talk%20pages%20on%20Wikidata%20include%20basic%20queries%20adapted%20to%20each%20property%0ASELECT%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%0A%20%20%3Fvalue%20%3FvalueLabel%0A%23%20valueLabel%20is%20only%20useful%20for%20properties%20with%20item-datatype%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2769%20%3Fvalue%0A%20%20%23%20change%20P2769%20%28budget%29%20to%20another%20property%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%23%20adapted%20from%20the%20%22most%20recently%20created%20items%22%20query%20on%20the%20property%20talk%20page%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FProperty_talk%3AP2769%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28xsd%3Ainteger%28SUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fitem%29%2C33%29%29%29%0A%23%20remove%20or%20change%20limit%20for%20more%20results%0ALIMIT%2010 https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20All%20items%20with%20a%20p... Looks like mostly research grants. My guess is that someone wrote an integration to add new research grants to Wikidata as soon as they're published.