Simple tables that are in wikipedia: * league tables with columns for games won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points, rank and rows for each of the teams in the league. * election results with columns for votes for each party and seats won by each party and rows for each region, state etc. * population numbers with columns for each tab (races, religion etc.) and rows for each census district.
In all of these cases I suspect that this information might be more useful as a series of statements. These could either be broken up with a statement corresponding to each column on the item for each row or alternatively with all the information in the table on one item, a statement for each row and qualifiers to each statement corresponding to each column. What is the advantage to having this as a table instead? Joe On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Jan Kučera <kozuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well what I meant was just an ordinary 2-dimensional table (rows vs. > columns)... Excel was just an example to make it clear. > > So I guess simple tables are not any roadmap yet right? > > Further step would be an n-dimensional structures... arrays etc. > > I wouldnt care about format.... CSV, JSON... > > Jan > > > > 2014-05-27 14:24 GMT+02:00 David Cuenca <dacu...@gmail.com>: > > 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 <valde...@gmail.com> >> 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 <kozuc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi there, >>>> >>>> can tables be stored within wikidata database? I mean simple 2D tables >>>> like excel spreadsheets... >>>> >>>> Jan >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikidata-l mailing list >>>> Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> 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 >>> Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Etiamsi omnes, ego non >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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