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Querying Lingua Libre
LinguaLibre audios are structured in a database where all the recordings and their data are described. This page expose the core structure and redirect you to the relevant documentations or help pages.
Core structures
The data model includes 3 core concepts of Lingua Libre : language, speakers, recordings. Items exist for each of these 3 dimensions. Those items have properties, which themselves have various values. This, all together, creates our database.
Language
This is the language of a speaker or of a recording. This property may point to a language defined on Wikidata (wikidata:Q34770).
Speaker
- See also Help:SPARQL#Speakers, DataViz:Speakers.
The speaker is the person that pronounced one or several words in an audio recording. There are various information on the speaker such as their residence at the time of recording and their native tongue.
Audio recordings
- See also Help:SPARQL#Recordings, DataViz:Records.
Every recording created with the Record Wizard is added into the database along with some metadata that includes the date the recording was created, the speaker and the language.
Querying the data
SPARQL end points
- LinguaLibre's SPARQL endpoint – to query Wikidata from Lingualibre, use
SERVICE <https://wikidata.org/sparql>. - Wikidata Query Service – to query Lingualibre from Wikidata, use
SERVICE <https://lingualibre.org/sparql>.
SPARQL helpers
- Help:SPARQL – examples of SPARQL queries
- Special:ListProperties – list of all properties used on Lingua Libre
- Help:SPARQL 2 (stub) – examples of advanced SPARQL queries
API helpers
- Help:APIs – APIs queries relevant to LinguaLibre, including Commons.
- Special:ApiSandbox – API queries generator for Lingualibre wikipage and wikibase contents.
Modifying the data
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Further reading
- Help:Navigating Wikidata on Wikidata