[Wikidata-l] Property P107

2013-03-21 Thread John McClure
-Original Message- From: denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Expiration date for data We will have a time datatype, and every property is strongly typed. This is also true for properties used as qualifiers. Regarding the

Re: [Wikidata-l] Type namespace

2012-04-05 Thread John McClure
Hi Denny - Thanks for your reply and I am relieved. The design seems in the process of walking towards looking quite alot like ISO Topic Maps, I must say, because it designates no wall of separation between classes and topics. Today that wall exists in SMW in the dichotomy of Category vs

Re: [Wikidata-l] SNAK - assertion?

2012-04-05 Thread John McClure
Denny said: But if you find a simpler, and more RDFish way to express the (below) statement, please feel free to enlighten me. I would be indeed very interested. The population density of France, as of an 2012 estimate, is 116 per square kilometer, according to the Bilan demographique 2010. A

Re: [Wikidata-l] SNAK - assertion?

2012-04-05 Thread John McClure
Denny said: you forgot to add something like France#Density:2012_pop_estimate_Bilan_2010 property Density . No I did not forget anything, given the Density 'namespace' in the subobject name. IOW your triple merely restates what is discernible from the subobject name. Maybe you should tell me what

Re: [Wikidata-l] Namespace-based model

2012-04-05 Thread John McClure
. If a distinction between nouns and adjectives is made, then one type + multiple facets is necessary. -Original Message- From: John McClure [mailto:jmccl...@hypergrove.com] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:08 PM To: Wikidata (E-mail) Subject: [Wikidata-l] Namespace-based model Denny said

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Wikitech-l] Topic Maps

2012-03-23 Thread John McClure
: [Wikitech-l] Topic Maps On 21/03/12 13:06, John McClure wrote: (1) official ISO versions are purchaseable while unofficial versions are foss. Ok, that's a pity. A standard that nobody can read is not so helpful ... We already had this issue with other ISO standards before. In the end, people just