Hi!
I am working on improvement of Wikidata's articles on textiles in general. I'll be working on the bobin lace items in Museu d'Arenys de Mar, using their website catalogue as a reference. Mostly I'll be adding "fabrication method" (the museum's "Tècnica"), English labels, and "described at URL" to link to the museum.
Let me know if you have any questions about what I am doing.
Hey @PKM, thanks for reaching out and letting me know you'll be tackling this task. This sounds great and I'd love to keep an eye on your edits to learn more about your method, so I'll really appreciate it if you could point me to your code or share a few details about how you'll be adding these new statements (if you feel comfortable with it, that is!)
Thanks again!
I'm happy to share details.
First, User:PKM/Textiles/Museum bobbin lace is my worklist. I'm not using QuickStatements or anything for this project, just a couple of keyboard macros I wrote and the "duplicate references" gadget. The rest I'm doing by hand.
In the first round, I am making just a few changes on each item: EN label and descriptiuon, described at URL, and fabrication method with a reference to the museum URL. Here's an example: Q26756759.
Eventually, we could add a citation to the museum site for every statement that is supported by the online catalog. Q26756053 is an example of what that might look like. Where we've added these we can remove the "imported from Wikimedia project reference" but I won't do that unless you want me to.
I've run into a few (four so far) items that are not in the online catalog (or don't appear when I search for the inv. number).
There are also cases where the dates are slightly different on the website (1918 instead of 1916 in one case). I didn't make any changes with that - I wanted to see what you thought first.
Thanks for the explanation! Both of your lines of action sound great to me. Actually, we should tend to remowe the "imported from Wikimedia project" reference, since that was a mistake of ours and by the time that happened I wasn't aware if there was a quick way to solve it. Anyway, please feel free to make as many changes as you wish!
If you feel like keeping a list of the items that don't appear in the online catalog or cases where data doesn't match completely I can reach out to the museum and ask them if they can give us a hand so that data is equal in all places. Let's keep in touch, thanks again for telling me what you're doing!
I am FINALLY done with what I can do with the bobbin lace. The list of issues and "missing" items is here :User:PKM/Textiles/Arenys
Feel free to fix any mistakes I made (I think I caught all the times I entered the museum site language as "EN" instead of "CA" but watch for that).
Full work list is here: User:PKM/Textiles/Museum bobbin lace
This is great, PKM! Thank you very much for this! I'll reach out to the museum and see if we can complete the data of the items you had trouble with. It will take me a bit of time though, thanks for your patience in advance!