Tony Bowden

[Tony Bowden @tmtm]

Every week I track changes of political officeholders worldwide. Turns out a lot of those changes have interesting stories behind them, that often don't make international news, so I've been persuaded to turn the list into a newsletter. Week one is at https://t.co/EuAKhJaEoE

[Tony Bowden @tmtm]

I wish I could say this week's Shuffled has *no* US content, but there's some spillover to elsewhere.
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Missed all the recent political shenanigans in Bulgaria, Samoa, Croatia, Kenya, and Poland? This week's Shuffled update covers these and many more: https://t.co/Ci0zPpu4bG

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

Today:
🇸🇩: military makes rapid gains in Khartoum
🇨🇩: M23 rebels threaten to take Goma
🇨🇴: heaviest fighting between ELN & FARC guerrillas in years
🇷🇸: mass protests and general strike across the country
🇺🇦🇷🇺: major drone strikes

Media: 24-hour coverage of the Trump circus.

[Tony Bowden @tmtm]

Another week, another slew of shufflings, including more than one Prime Minister lasting less than a week in office: https://t.co/0LuyXd6EDH

[Ray Berger @RayScript]

🎉 Just blogged about my work integrating @Wikidata with @internetarchive's @openlibrary! Excited to share how we're enhancing author pages and enhancing search. Check it out! 📚

https://t.co/6jbCWq6A26

#OpenLibrary #Wikidata #OpenSource

[Tony Bowden @tmtm]

@Tagishsimon It also doesn't help that the vast majority of https://t.co/poSdn6QU9n are far too simplistic, almost entirely avoiding complex dates (precision, P1326/P12506/…), deprecation, noval/unknown, !Q5, multiple routes to the same data, etc etc that are needed for most real world use

[Tony Bowden @tmtm]

@Tagishsimon Yeah, there are a great many ways in which WD is increasingly write-only, and I fear this is one of them. (And not helped by some of the more interesting ways in which people choose to cram multiple incompatible qualifiers onto a single P39 and then undo any attempts to fix them)

[Tony Bowden @tmtm]

@generalising @Tagishsimon I think this is one where it's going to be best to work backwards: starting with a list of questions, and seeing which ones can't be answered yet, and which ones are way too complicated atm, but could be improved by a different data model.

[Tony Bowden @tmtm]

@generalising @Tagishsimon Some of those should be fairly straightforward with what's currently there atm, but others (e.g. "Who were the Home Office Ministers during <period>?") will likely require multiple levels of data clean-up first.

[Tony Bowden @tmtm]

@generalising @Tagishsimon A good start might be to document the various queries required to produce various subsets of the current official list on https://t.co/wfZx8auvF7 as well as at least near-past historic versions of that, e.g. https://t.co/gX1N7N1C79

[Tony Bowden @tmtm]

@PlasticPlanners https://t.co/OrkLawiVw7 ?

[Tony Bowden @tmtm]

@colleenm_hughes @darachos Ashes to Ashes is Bowie's own sequel to it.

[Tony Bowden @tmtm]

@niamh_d I've seen a few recommendations for https://t.co/Wx8h9pbWRH as a replacement. Haven't tried it yet, so can't really compare, but flat rate €1 per book for shipping isn't bad.