On 22 Jun 2012, at 17:20, Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here's the use case:
> 
> Every statement in Wikidata will have a URI. Every statement can have
> one more references.
> In many cases, the reference might be text on a website.

As an aside, a growing number of such pages may come with some basic 
machine-readable data. For example IMDB actor pages may expose basic background 
facts, or e-govt sites may publish data geo/demographic/etc data. 

I hope schema.org (augmented with Wikidata-derrived vocab) will help encourage 
this. I'm not sure Wikidata's provenance machinery needs to worry about such 
things, although the lurking problem of cycles in the provenance/source graph 
may eventually be an issue here. For example, if some BBC music site is built 
from -say- MusicBrainz + Wikipedia data, should their embedded rdfa expose this 
sourcing so that someone citing it in support of a Wikidata factoid can be made 
aware of the circularity?

Dan
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