Wikidata:WikiProject India Office Records

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This is a project to add information to Wikidata from archival materials in the India Office Records kept at the British Library. The project will initially be working with a small sample of materials from two publications: Annual Administrative Reports of the Governments of India, and the India Office Lists.

Item pages have been created for each of these publication series, and individual pages have also been created for each volume in the sample.

This is very much a pilot project, so please bear with us while we try different things and work out the best ways to contribute to Wikidata and improve access to the records.

 Info You can use the AutoEdit tool to quickly add label and description on WikiProject India Office Records in many languages.

Items

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Main items

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Sorbiodunensis (talk) 09:45, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Other items

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Members of the West Yorkshire Regiment

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Sorbiodunensis (talk) 15:49, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Properties

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Main properties

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Certain types of information associated with the project have the potential to cause offence if they are incorrect. Examples include, but are not limited to, dates of birth and death. Such data types may be deleted from articles unless appropriately referenced.

Include links to data sources useful for referencing these.

Sorbiodunensis (talk) 15:40, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Other properties

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Queries

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Main queries

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  • To find all India Office Records on Wikidata:

The following query uses these:

  • Properties: collection (P195)  View with Reasonator View with SQID
    SELECT ?Record ?RecordLabel
WHERE
{
   ?Record wdt:P195 wd:Q6019377.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE]". }
  
}
Try it!


  • To find all India Lists:

The following query uses these:

  • Properties: part of the series (P179)  View with Reasonator View with SQID
    SELECT ?IndiaList ?IndiaListLabel
WHERE
{
   ?IndiaList wdt:P179 wd:Q107136752.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE]". }
  
}
Try it!
  • To find all Annual Administration Reports:

The following query uses these:

  • Properties: part of the series (P179)  View with Reasonator View with SQID
    SELECT ?IndiaGovReport ?IndiaGovReportLabel
WHERE
{
   ?IndiaGovReport wdt:P179 wd:Q107134086.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE]". }
  
}
Try it!

All recorded members of the West Yorkshire Regiment

The following query uses these:

  • Properties: military unit (P7779)  View with Reasonator View with SQID, military or police rank (P410)  View with Reasonator View with SQID
    SELECT ?person ?personLabel ?rankLabel
where { ?person wdt:P7779 wd:Q7987044. 
        ?person wdt:P410 ?rank .
                 
                 
    SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}
Try it!

Connection to Lord Kitchener

The following query uses these:

Features: Graph (Q24515287)  View with Reasonator View with SQID

#defaultView:Graph
SELECT ?item1 ?image ?item1Label ?item2 ?image2 ?item2Label ?edgeLabel ?logo2Label 
WITH { SELECT ?item1 WHERE {
VALUES ?item1 {wd:Q6019377 wd:Q7965362 wd:Q216129 wd:Q23308 wd:Q7987044 wd:Q1628487 wd:Q28050568 wd:Q238587 } #list of things depicted and connected, deities, museums, countries etc
} } AS %item1
WITH {SELECT (?item1 AS ?item2) WHERE {INCLUDE %item1} } AS %item2
WHERE {
  INCLUDE %item1.
  INCLUDE %item2.?item1 ?prop ?item2.
?edge ?dummy ?prop ; rdf:type wikibase:Property
OPTIONAL {?item1 wdt:P18 ?image}
OPTIONAL {?item2 wdt:P18 ?image2}
OPTIONAL {?item2 wdt:P154 ?logo2} 
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" }
}
Try it!



Sorbiodunensis (talk) 13:44, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Subpages

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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India_List_Postal_Officials [[1]]

Participants

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[create] Create the participants list page and add yourself

--Sorbiodunensis (talk) 14:28, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

-- Aharchivist (talk) 11:30, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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