Get item definitions by qid_on_wikidata from a Wikibase instance or Wikidata.
Usage
get_wikidata_item(
qid_on_wikidata,
language,
prefix = "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/",
wikibase_api_url = "https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php",
data_curator = NULL,
title = "Dataset title"
)Arguments
- qid_on_wikidata
A single qid_on_wikidata or a vector of qid_on_wikidatas on a Wikibase instance (or Wikidata itself.)
- language
Defaults to
c("en", "nl", "hu"). A character string of the languages in which the users wants to receive the labels and descriptions of the property. The vector of languages must use BCP 47-compliant language tags (e.g., "en" for English, "nl" for Dutch and "hu" for Hungarian.)- prefix
The prefix to use before the qid_on_wikidata, for example, defaults to
"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/".- wikibase_api_url
Defaults to
"https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php".- data_curator
The name of the data curator who runs the function and creates the log file, created with person.
- title
The title of the dataset.
Value
A Returns a dataset_df object with the
qid_on_wikidatas, labels, description, and the language codes of the labels
and descriptions.
Examples
get_wikidata_item("Q42", language = c("en", "nl"))
#> Downloaded Q42
#> Doe J (2025). "Dataset title."
#> rowid qid_on_wikidata label description language
#> <hvn_lbl_> <hvn_lbl_> <hvn_lbl_> <hvn_lbl_> <hvn_lb>
#> 1 eg:1 Q42 Douglas Adams English science fiction wri… en
#> 2 eg:2 Q42 Douglas Adams Engelse schrijver (1952-200… nl