On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 7:39 PM James Heald <[email protected]> wrote:

> As yet there's no data structure defined in Wikidata for lists of things
> -- eg lists of coordinates.
>
> This is something that is recognised as needed, eg to record the
> boundaries of administrative areas.
>
> However, WD would in any case only store such data for something that
> was WD-notable -- not a GPS trace for a video, because the video
> wouldn't have a Wikidata item.
>
> In future however such a video would have an item in the analogous
> CommonsData system that's planned, and that's somewhere it might well
> make sense to record a stream of co-ordinates.
>
> A separate issue would be that the co-ordinates would ideally be linked
> to particular time-points in the video.  I don't think anyone has yet
> done any much thinking about how the system in general would need to be
> extended to time-based information.  Perhaps all it needs it is to
> simply create lots of different statements, each with a qualifier
> indicating the relevant time. (As one might have, eg to state different
> subjects shown in the video). In which case one might not need a single
> list-like vector item after all, just a lot of separate statements.
>


Yes. Exactly as James says.

Cheers
Lydia
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