Please, leave your comments here too: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/How_to_deal_with_open_datasets
I've been gathering comments from several people, and in the next days I will try to summarize these suggestions to be discussed on irc. Thanks, Micru On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Ilario Valdelli <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not an expert of Wikidata but I work a lot in integration of > databases with several middlewares or tools. > > I think that the best way is to ask a solution to store and to download > data in a format compatible with datasheets like CSV. > > Excel is considered also a tool to do some basic analysis, but it can be > connected easily to a data source (if well structured). > > Excel itself is not a good approach to store data, so it's not a good > solution to keep the data in excel format in a database. > > Doesn't make sense to store a 2D tables in a database in my opinion > because the data have no sense and they are not helpful to anyone. > > They can be stored like a text file, but I would not imagine the series of > errors that can be generated importing these data again. > > Regards > > > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Jan Kučera <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> can tables be stored within wikidata database? I mean simple 2D tables >> like excel spreadsheets... >> >> Jan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> > > > -- > Ilario Valdelli > Wikimedia CH > Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens > Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre > Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera > Switzerland - 8008 Zürich > Wikipedia: Ilario <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ilario> > Facebook: Ilario Valdelli <https://www.facebook.com/ivaldelli> > Twitter: Ilario Valdelli <https://twitter.com/ilariovaldelli> > Linkedin: Ilario Valdelli<http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=6724469> > Tel: +41764821371 > http://www.wikimedia.ch > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non
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