Regarding to a tweet SOFI is building a new SOFI register

• New WD property proposed

I would like to get an understanding what kind of solution and how it will be designed ==> so we can see how it fits into what Wikidata is doing

• Tweet - Vi jobbar på ett nytt ortnamnsregister – tyvärr är det inte klart att lansera än!
• Email skickat till utvecklare@sprakochfolkminnen.se 2018-08-06

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Problem old "SOFI" solution

1. the application is names per parish "socken" but the key to a page is random like _s1xx001/504225b1 instead of using the parish code e.g. Söderala has the "sockenkod" = 2439
   1. Fornsök use 2439 ==> much easier to link
   2. Same Statens historiska museum URL mis.historiska.se...snkod=2439
      1. sv:Wikipedia has today 2411 pages linking SOFI see page with more than 1 000 000 views / year

Those Wikipedia pages about socken has about 1 000 000 views per year

View statistics:

• 2017-07-21 - 2018-07-21 = 1,073,968 views
• 1/1/2017 - 12/31/2017 = 1,014,920 views
• 1/1/2016 - 12/31/2016 = 971,176 views

User stories: As a person doing genealogy I would like to easy find the church archives but also the name registers from SOFI

• Example:
  • Söderala churchbook NAD SE/HLA/1010201
    • Wikipedia Söderala församling - WD Söderala församling WD:Q10688470
    • WD NAD property P5324 --> WD:Q10688470#P5324

• SOFI Söderala
  • Wikipedia Söderala socken - WD Söderala socken Q10688474
    • SOFI P5536 --> Q10688474#P5536

The challenge is that we are now connecting for all "församlingar" in Wikipedia/Wikidata "Riksarkivet" NAD = church archives see workspace at GitHub but information like SOFI is connected to the more stable administrative unit Socken

See also:

• T199893: WD: Decide how to connect a "församling" and a "socken" parish

LInked Data

If SOFI upgrades we think that a linked data is the way forward in the same way as Libris XL is moving in that direction

• video why a memory organisation should use Linked Open Data from Europeana
  
• Video - SOFI <-> Wikidata

SOFI in Wikidata

See task T200019: Create a Wikidata Property Proposal for SOFI name register that created WD Property:P5536 ==> we can generate maps

Wikidata Hub Tool

See also blog

As SOFI has a property P5536 we can use Wikidata as a hub from SOFI -> WIkidata -> Fornsök maps

SOFI Söderala = NAU/bilder/_s1xx001/504225b1

Calling the hub tool with argument 1xx001/504225b1 ==> we can go to

• Open Street map P625
  • https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/P5536:1xx001/504225b1?property=P625
• Fornsök P777
  • https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/P5536:1xx001/504225b1?property=P777

View statistics

• Articles with external links to *.sprakochfolkminnen.se 8/4/2017 - 8/4/2018 = 2909 articles with 3 390 283 views

Misc

• SOFI related tasks in Phabricator