Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-06 Thread Nadja Kutz
Friedrich Röhrs wrote: as far as I have understood Nadja Kutz and John McClure want the wikidata dev team to somehow commit to using ISO topic maps for the classification of the content of wikidata. No that is not what I want the wikidata to do. please read all my postings to this thread :

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-05 Thread Nadja Kutz
John McClure wrote: Nadja conflated our asking about ISO Topic Maps as a base design standard with incorporating ALL ISO STANDARDS EVER PUBLISHED into the wikidata database OK what I have sofar understood is that the ISO has not (yet) published much semantically structured content,

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-05 Thread Denny Vrandečić
2012/9/5 Nadja Kutz na...@daytar.de: Is it planned by the Wikidata team that someone phones these people in Geneva and asks wether wikidata could at least base its ontology (here I mean in particular the overall classification scheme, like a hammer is a tool a.s.o) on the ISO Standard

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-05 Thread Nadja Kutz
Mr. Denny Vandrecic, many thanks for your detailed answer. Let me try to explain the open questions I am not a lawyer, but I want to point out that there is a distinction between Copyright and other IP protection. Whereas a text about the classification of hammers may (and usually is)

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-05 Thread Nadja Kutz
P.S. I think this has been suggested already but I am not sure - I think that one should eventually think of allowing parallel classifications schemes at wikidata. So one could have an ISO classification AND a user made classification like similar to the one at megajoule.org. Frankly speaking

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-05 Thread Luca Martinelli
Dear all, sorry but I think I didn't correctly got the point of the whole thing. Probably, I was overestimating my English competence, or my free-licensing competence, or both. So, without ANY intention of being rude, or even polemical, I would like to ask: what is this discussion about, again?

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-05 Thread jmcclure
Hi Nadja - To my knowledge ISO has not published, nor is intending to publish, instances of topic maps representing the content of their numerous publications, using either their (ISO's) standard for Topic Maps (ISO/IEC 13250), or any other ISO or non-ISO standard. Forgive me if I ever gave

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-05 Thread jmcclure
Hi Denny - your statement, that SNAKS can be related to RDF or topic maps, is interesting to me, particularly your reference to topic maps. I tend to interpret this as saying you believe SNAKS implements the topic map data model, represented using RDF triples, that SNAKS is informed by or

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-05 Thread jmcclure
Luca, You're right, and I apologize that I steered the discussion from content classification back to an old wikidata data modelling question -- SNAKS vs Topic Maps. Because I am ignorant about any ISO classification standard whatsoever I thought the old bugaboo modelling discussion was being

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-05 Thread Friedrich Röhrs
Hi Luca, a) as far as I have understood Nadja Kutz and John McClure want the wikidata dev team to somehow commit to using ISO topic maps for the classification of the content of wikidata. The Dev teams position is that how the content will finally be structured is not up to them but to the

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-05 Thread jmcclure
Nadja, "Why is the topic map standard at http://www.topicmaps.org/standards/an unofficial topic map standard?" Links can be found to working technical committee reports, which are generally re-titled as "standards" once voted and accepted by ISO. These TC reports vary little from what is

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-05 Thread jmcclure
No sir, that is not right. As I said there is no ISO classification scheme of which I am aware. And I've said I no longer have interest in the wikidata team using ISO Topic Maps - that is a dead issue since the team declined to discuss it. *At the time I wrote the emails you referenced* I was

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-04 Thread Denny Vrandečić
-Original Message- From: wikidata-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikidata-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Lydia Pintscher Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 10:35 AM To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox On Fri, Aug 31

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-04 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Nadja, John's question was: So, the consequent question I asked then was, if you're not going to use any (ISO or national) standard then how can you assure the WP community that Wikidata is not violating someone's copyright(s)? My answer to that question was that we are using standards. And

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-04 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Nadja replied but the mailman decided to bounce the message. I'm investigating... Here's Nadja's message: --- So, the consequent question I asked then was, if you're not going to

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-04 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Nadja wrote: Hello Denny Vrandecic I hope you have a lawyer who checks this, on a first 1 min glance at this page it doesnt look to me obvious that a collision (like when creating a classification scheme as described in my previous email and as John asked) is excluded, it looks more as the

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-04 Thread jmcclure
Hello, The genesis of the legal question is the thread concerning using ISO Topic Map precepts not SNAKs. Surely you know a number of individuals on this forum feel that our challenge at that time was not thoughtfully engaged. Instead we received replies focused on costs associated with ISO

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox

2012-09-03 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Nadja Kutz na...@daytar.de wrote: Hello Is there any news on the thoughts about including ISO standards into wikidata? in particular it would be nice to here someone from wikidata comment on this: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikidata/576 ?