Wikidata, instance of and subclass of through time (P31 & P279)
Last month I looked at all Wikimedia Commons revisions and managed to generate some data and graphs for the usage of depicts statements since they were introduced on the project. This month, I have applied the same analysis on Wikidata but looking at instance of and subclasses of items. A slightly bigger data set, however…
Wikimedia Commons Depicts statements over time
Wikimedia Commons now uses Structured Data on Commons (SDC) to make media information multilingual and machine-readable. A core part of SDC is the ‘depicts’ statement (P180), which identifies items clearly visible in a file. Depicts statements are crucial for MediaSearch, enabling it to find relevant results in any language by using Wikidata labels, as well…