Translations:Wikidata:Flemish art collections, Wikidata and Linked Open Data/Whitepaper/39/en

Notable

 OK. Saint Jerome (Q2566840) by Hieronymus Bosch (Q130531), collection Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) (Q2365880), has six Wikipedia articles and is notable on Wikidata under goal #1 and notability criterion #1.

 OK. Shipwreck (Q20020184) by Joseph Vernet (Q315819), collection Groeningemuseum (Q1948674)    has no Wikipedia articles, but it is a painting by a notable painter and is part of a notable museum collection. This artwork belongs on Wikidata according to its goal #2 and notability criterion #2.

Which information belongs on Wikidata, which doesn't? In its initial phase, Wikidata has the following two goals:

1. to centralize interlanguage links across Wikimedia projects
2. and to serve as a general knowledge base for the world at large.

An item is acceptable on Wikidata if and only if it fulfills at least one of these two goals, that is if it meets at least one of the criteria below:

1. It contains at least one valid sitelink to a page on Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikidata or Wikimedia Commons.
2. It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity. The entity must be notable, in the sense that it can be described using serious and publicly available references.
3. It fulfills some structural need, for example: it is needed to make statements made in other items more useful.

The data provided in the project Linked Open Data publication with Wikidata usually falls under goal #2 and criterion #2. In a few cases, Wikipedia articles already exist about artworks in the contributing collections, which makes these fall under goal #1 and criterion #1. The same principle applies to the artists who created the artworks in the contributing collections.