Can tabular data be currently saved as a series of statements within wikidata? If so, how can I create such a series? Am I able to feed such a series into a wikitable on some wiki?
2014-05-30 11:19 GMT+02:00 Joe Filceolaire <filceola...@gmail.com>: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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