| daniel added a comment. |
In T161527#3135290, @Smalyshev wrote:Well, if we plan to refer to it in RDF, we need some URI. RDF does not make distinction between real concept URIs and "just" URIs which don't mean anything special, and we could kind of pretend that this is "just" URI. But why do it if we do have an identifyable dataset which can be (and in many contexts is) treated as its own entity? We might as well have proper concept URI for it. May come handy later.
We do not plan to refer to the thing that is described by the data set. We plan to refer to the data set.
Maybe we are misunderstanding each other. In Wikidata, each entity has two URIs associated with it: the concept URI (.../data/Q12345) for the actual thing and the data URI (.../wiki/Special:EntityData/Q12345) for the description of the thing. When referencing datasets on commons, we really mean the data, so we should use the URI of the data. We don't know what thing the data describes (maybe the item that contains the reference? maybe not?), and we have no reason to define a URI for the thing that the data describes.
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