Wikidata Suggest Example

README.md

Using Wikidata Suggest on Tate Artist Data

1. git clone https://github.com/edsu/wikidata_suggest
2. cd wikidata_suggest
3. pip install -r requirements.txt
4. python setup.py install
5. python tate_suggest.py

tate_suggest.py

import csvkit
from wikidata_suggest import suggest

reader = csvkit.py2.reader(
    open('../data/tate-collection/collection-1.2/artist_data.csv'))

writer = csvkit.py2.writer(
    open('../data/tate-collection/collection-1.2/artist_data_recon.csv', 'wb'))

for row in reader:
    artist = row[1]
    wikidata = suggest(artist)

    if wikidata:
        row.append(wikidata["url"])
    else:
        row.append(None)

    writer.writerow(row)