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 -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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