mkroetzsch added a comment. The RDF should certainly contain information about the entity type of exported data. This is essential to ensure that the RDF data contains all the information that is found in the JSON (other than the ordering). As I read it, things that are of rdf:type Item are things that are described by on item on Wikidata. If this is not obvious to anybody who uses the data (maybe somebody really thinks that Washington himself is an item?!), we can always emphasize this in the documentation of the Item class. I therefore suggest to close this issue as invalid. It's just a matter of how we document our ontology. In particular, it should not be assumed that any triple in RDF has a self-evident ground truth associated with it that one can grasp just by reading the URIs (or their labels), though I think confusion is very unlikely here since we do not export any RDF data about item documents.
The comment on rdfs:Resource seems to be a misinterpretation of the spec. In RDF, we certainly distinguish between a thing and its description, it is just that the description itself is yet another thing (in short: everything is a thing). I don't think that this has any bearing on how we want to encode the entity type in our RDF. In general, I would suggest to stick to the RDF encoding that Denny and I have worked out and published, as it is used in the existing dumps. We can always discuss changes if really needed, but we should not start to re-discuss things that are already done. What is needed now is implementation, not design. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89949 REPLY HANDLER ACTIONS Reply to comment or attach files, or !close, !claim, !unsubscribe or !assign <username>. EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: mkroetzsch Cc: Smalyshev, mkroetzsch, Aklapper, daniel, Wikidata-bugs, Jdouglas, aude _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
