Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

2013-08-12 Thread Luca Martinelli
Il giorno 12/ago/2013 05:26, Tom Morris tfmor...@gmail.com ha scritto: Is it intentional to restrict the definition to personal pseudonyms? That doesn't cover all uses of them For example, there are house pseudonyms used by publishing houses which are associated with a series and the

Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

2013-08-12 Thread Andrew Gray
Cases like this - where the pseudonym is a (collective) entity in itself - would seem to be a good case for member of relationships - Henri Cartan [is a member of] Nicholas Bourbaki as John Lennon [is a member of] the Beatles. A free-text pseudonym for each of the Bourbaki authors would mean

Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

2013-08-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When an item is a member of a list, the item is likely to be written differently dependent on the language and script. When there is a free-text referral, it loses its flexibility ... eg 靈高史達 is a member of the Beatles grin obviously /grin Thanks, Gerard On 12 August 2013 11:44,

Re: [Wikidata-l] Best practices for large RDF dumps, was: Re: Wikidata RDF export available

2013-08-12 Thread Paul A. Houle
My feelings are strong towards one-line-per-fact. Large RDF data sets have validity problems, and the difficulty of convincing publishers that this matters indicates that this situation will continue. I’ve thought a bit about the problem of the “streaming converter from Turtle to

Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-12 Thread Cristian Consonni
2013/8/11 Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com: Hmm, I am not quite sure how to see this. Places and people yes: It would be nice to have the geo coordinates on Wikidata and for the artist and writers I am not sure I get what geocoordinates means for people. I also agree for the book and the

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF export available

2013-08-12 Thread Nicolas Torzec
With respect to the RDF export I'd advocate for: 1) an RDF format with one fact per line. 2) the use of a mature/proven RDF generation framework. Optimizing too early based on a limited and/or biased view of the potential use cases may not be a good idea in the long run. I'd rather keep it simple

Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-12 Thread Jane Darnell
geocoordinates can be linked to places; creator templates, book templates, and artwork templates can all be linked to people. The problem is if you store the data on WikiData, but do not allow the content to show up on WikiCommons (due to copyright problems), then where does data-curation take

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF export available

2013-08-12 Thread Markus Krötzsch
On 12/08/13 17:56, Nicolas Torzec wrote: With respect to the RDF export I'd advocate for: 1) an RDF format with one fact per line. 2) the use of a mature/proven RDF generation framework. Optimizing too early based on a limited and/or biased view of the potential use cases may not be a good idea