Hacking ideas

Living Heritage pages

Living Heritage pages are pages created on Meta for individual heritage elements. They can be used to aggregate information from the different Wikimedia projects to help editing them using information available in other projects. See for example xx.

Add information about a new Living Heritage page to its Wikidata item

When the user creates a new Living Heritage page for a heritage element on the Meta pages, the information about the sitelink should be added to the Wikidata item.

The same procedure could also be used when a new inventory page is created.

Tags: Bot, Wikidata, Sitelink

Display images from Wikimedia Commons on an element's Living Heritage page

Display all images in the element's category and subcategories.

Display images that have SDC depicts (P180) statements with the element as value.

Tags: Bot, Wikimedia Commons, SDC

Harvest source references from Wikipedia language versions about a heritage element

Aggregate source references to the Source references section from all Wikipedia editions. Format the references in a way that they can be easily added to Wikidata and used from there.

Tags: Bot, Wikipedia, Citation, Wikidata

Add literary works

Add related literary works (pdfs, Wikisources) to Living Heritage pages.

Images on Commons

Add SDC statements to images on Commons

Read information added into the uploaded images and make SDC statements out of them.

Tags: Bot, Wikimedia Commons, SDC

Make more categories for living heritage items

The more there are Wikidata elements about living heritage elements, the more they also need well-categorized categories, and adding those categories to the corresponding Wikidata elements.

It's possible to start by taking a Commons category for a contest, for example, and categorize those images. When a heritage element category is missing, create it, categorize it under a possible "intangible heritage of <country>" category and a possible inventory category, and categorize those according to how Living Heritage categories are organized on Wikimedia Commons.

Tags: Bot, Wikimedia Commons, SDC

Wikifunctions

Create a calendar of ICH events

Heritage elements have recurring dates associated with them. Dates can be added as Wikidata items that represent recurring times according to a variety of calendars and rules. It would be interesting to be able to see these events in a calendar. Wikifuctions, that was just released, would allow transforming these items to dates and displaying them in a calendar.

Tags: Wikifunctions, Dates

Wikidata

Build a taxonomy of living heritage domains and types

Intangible cultural heritage is categorized under the UNESCO convention into 5 distinct domains: Oral traditions and expressions, including language as a vehicle of the intangible cultural heritage • Performing arts • Social practices, rituals and festive events • Knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe • Traditional craftsmanship.

States parties to the Convention often use these categories as well, but might add or change them to suit their purposes better.

How could we use these domains that are present throughout the inventories to characterize the Wikidata items associated with the inventories. Can we make use of the UNESCO Thesaurus as well? What would best benefit the cultural institutions in their work, making use of the data on Wikidata?

If we have a consistent way of describing types of intangible cultural heritage, it will allow us to create pages and views that represent those categories, and perhaps add a bit of extended Wikidata finesse to them.

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