This is a project to implement a Wikidata Client in Julia. For the moment, I am using this project to get used to Julia.
#load a Wikidata-Entity (Douglas Adams)
adams = Wikidata.WikidataEntity("Q42")
println(Wikidata.label(adams))
#check if place of birth exists for this entity:
if(Wikidata.hasproperty(adams, "P19"))
placeofbirth = Wikidata.getproperty(adams, "P19")
# print Adams' place of birth: Cambridge
println(Wikidata.label(placeofbirth[1]))
end
How to extract birthplaces and their coordinates for all presidents (head of governement) of the US (or any other country)
using Wikidata
using DataFrames
function getPresidentsBirthPlaces(x::String)
df = DataFrame(Name = String[], birthplace= String[], birthplace_lat = BigFloat[], birthplace_lon = BigFloat[])
country = Wikidata.WikidataEntity(x)
#head of government is found under Property P6
presidents_Entities = Wikidata.getproperty(country, "P6")
for president in presidents_Entities
try
#P19 is the place-of-birth property
birthplace_Entity = Wikidata.getproperty(president, "P19")
#P625 is the coordinate location property
birthplace_latlon = Wikidata.getproperty(birthplace_Entity[1], "P625")[1]
push!(df, (Wikidata.label(president), Wikidata.label(birthplace_Entity[1]),birthplace_latlon[1], birthplace_latlon[2]))
catch
println("Data not found")
end
end
df
end
df = getPresidentsBirthPlaces("Q30") #Q30 is the identifier for the US, Q183 is the identifier of Germany etc.