On 01.02.2013 14:54, Nicholas Humfrey wrote:
> While the reification makes sense, we thought that it looked a bit too
> much like rdf:Statement.
> 
> w:Berlin s:Population Berlin:Statement1 .
> 
> Berlin:Statement1 rdf:type o:Statement .
> 
> 
> 
> Perhaps you could rename o:Statement to o:Fact instead?

But it's not a fact. It's a claim someone makes.

That may seem like a fine distinction, but it's really fundamental to
understanding how Wikidata/Wikibase is different from DBpedia, Freebase, Cyc, 
etc.

Wikidata doesn't collect facts. It collects statements (sourced claims).

-- daniel


-- 
Daniel Kinzler, Softwarearchitekt
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.


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