[mb-users] Is their an artist property for an artists place of birth ?

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2007/11/2, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>:
>
> Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
>
> > I agree to your idea that if a better-suited data source exists
> > somewhere, we should use it, but it doesn't work here for
> > technical reasons. You can't ask wikipedia for composers born in
> > France currently, and you probably never will (if one day
> > wikipedia was able to do this, it would have to change it's name
> > to something like databasepedia ;-) ).
>
> Everybody here seems to think of the English language Wikipedia.
> The German language Wikipedia does encode dates and places of
> birth and death in a systematic way.  The starting page (in
> German) is http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:Personendaten
>
> If you buy the DVD edition of the German Wikipedia, a search tool
> for this is included. I think there was a web tool for this search
> as well, but I can't find it at this moment.  A search tool for
> birth dates is available at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~voj/pd/
> Another tool that appears to be broken is
> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kolossos/templatetiger/
>
> However, even if the English language Wikipedia doesn't always
> mention the birth place in a systematic way, there are ways to dig
> most of that information out from a database dump.  One project
> that already does such things is http://dbpedia.org/
>

It could be useful to check for discrepancies between us and them, but I
suppose you will agree it would probably too slow for "real-time" queries.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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