Re: [Wikidata-l] Spatial data definition

2012-04-06 Thread Markus Krötzsch
Hi Andreas, thanks for the input. I have drafted the current text about geo-related datatypes, but I am far from being an expert in this area. Our mapping expert in Wikidata is Katie (Aude), who has also been working with OpenStreetMap, but further expert input on this topic would be quite

Re: [Wikidata-l] SNAK - assertion?

2012-04-06 Thread Martynas Jusevicius
Hey again, getting over wasn't meant to be harsh. I was hoping though wiki in Wikidata stands for a the broader concept of free and open, and not a particular syntax for encoding knowledge. I'm all for free and open knowledge, but I think sticking to the same mechanisms which helped bootstrap

Re: [Wikidata-l] SNAK - assertion?

2012-04-06 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Martynas Jusevicius marty...@graphity.org wrote: Hey again, getting over wasn't meant to be harsh. I was hoping though wiki in Wikidata stands for a the broader concept of free and open, and not a particular syntax for encoding knowledge. I'm all for free and

Re: [Wikidata-l] SNAK - assertion?

2012-04-06 Thread Markus Krötzsch
Martynas, what you are proposing below is not W3C recommended RDF but an extension of triples to quads. As far as I know, this extension is not compatible yet with existing standards such as SPARQL and OWL. Named graphs work with SPARQL, but are mostly used in another way than you suggest.

Re: [Wikidata-l] SNAK - assertion?

2012-04-06 Thread JFC Morfin
Binàris, then you should coin a crystal clear definition of snak (could it be made an acronym?) everyone can memorize and understand. Sounds also as snap and snag. If you find a pun it would help it get accepted. jfc At 10:39 06/04/2012, Bináris wrote: 2012/4/5 Gregor Hagedorn

[Wikidata-l] relevant work on infobox alignment

2012-04-06 Thread Brent Hecht
Hi All, I just wanted to make sure folks had seen this paper by Eytan Adar, Michael Skinner, and Daniel Weld (big names in AI). It's precisely about aligning infoboxes and propagating information across multiple language editions, so it might help guide the process when we get to that stage

Re: [Wikidata-l] SNAK - assertion?

2012-04-06 Thread Daniel Kinzler
On 06.04.2012 14:28, Martynas Jusevicius wrote: Hey again, getting over wasn't meant to be harsh. I was hoping though wiki in Wikidata stands for a the broader concept of free and open, and not a particular syntax for encoding knowledge. Dear Martynas As stated in the proposal, we do not