[Wikidata-l] Tables

Hi there, can tables be stored within wikidata database? I mean simple 2D tables like excel spreadsheets... Jan ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

Re: [Wikidata-l] Tables

Am 27.05.2014 13:15, schrieb Jan Kučera: Hi there, can tables be stored within wikidata database? I mean simple 2D tables like excel spreadsheets... No. The data structure does not lend itself to representing tabular data easily. I think a separate extension for handling tabular data

Re: [Wikidata-l] Tables

I am not an expert of Wikidata but I work a lot in integration of databases with several middlewares or tools. I think that the best way is to ask a solution to store and to download data in a format compatible with datasheets like CSV. Excel is considered also a tool to do some basic analysis,

Re: [Wikidata-l] Tables

Please, leave your comments here too: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/How_to_deal_with_open_datasets I've been gathering comments from several people, and in the next days I will try to summarize these suggestions to be discussed on irc. Thanks, Micru On Tue, May 27, 2014

Re: [Wikidata-l] Subclass of/instance of

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote: I applaud your comparison of inferencing with a form of decompression. I think this is a nice intuition (in fact, some people have researched semantic compression where one tries to reduce the size of a