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How do you find datasets on wikidata? Their search is hard to use
by kzrdude 5y ago
How do you find datasets on wikidata? Their search is hard to use
- leozord 5y agoyou need to use SparQL, on query.wikidata.org there are tons of examples
- zozbot234 5y agoThere is a SPARQL query page, with useful examples included. In general, Wikidata is not made up of discrete "datasets". Rather, each identifiable real-world entity, event or concept has a unique Q-identifier and a listing of "properties" that apply to that entity. So, to construct a dataset, you'd query for entities that participate in some set of properties you might care about.
- kzrdude 5y agoThanks! I ended up here, which is about the place one needs to start https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/writing-a-wikidata-query-discovering-women-writers-from-north-africa-d020634f0f6c https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/w... understanding which tags from the ontology to use and then building the query.