On 30.09.2012 11:59, Marco Fleckinger wrote: > Hi, > > regarding an actual topic in Germany about publication of the timetable-data > of > Deutsche Bahn (German national railway company) and their willingness of a > discussion with other Open-Data-Supporters it may be a good idea of providing > an > expiration dates for Wikidata-records. > > In their open letter to Mr. Kreil [1] they announced that it may cause > problems > providing the timetable-data in an open way if e.g. anybody uses old data.
Or approach to this is to mark individual statements as "historic", while the most current data is marked as "preferred". This is already necessary for basic things like population numbers. However, I don't think we need to expire data automatically - it should just be superseded by newer information. -- daniel -- Daniel Kinzler, Softwarearchitekt Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
